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January 6th, 2005, 06:05 AM
2004: A happy-news year for music industry
"It wasn't a huge rebound, but in 2004 the U.S. music industry enjoyed its first positive year since 2000.
Overall unit sales (also including singles and downloads of track and albums) were up 19%, from 687 million to 817 million — the first time since 2000 that plateau has been reached. Most of that jump, however, was in downloaded tracks (which generate far less revenue than CD albums): 141 million tracks were downloaded from pay Internet sites. The 2003 total for track downloads was 19.2 million, but SoundScan monitored them only during the year's second half."
USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2005-01-05-2004-album-sales_x.htm)
"It wasn't a huge rebound, but in 2004 the U.S. music industry enjoyed its first positive year since 2000.
Overall unit sales (also including singles and downloads of track and albums) were up 19%, from 687 million to 817 million — the first time since 2000 that plateau has been reached. Most of that jump, however, was in downloaded tracks (which generate far less revenue than CD albums): 141 million tracks were downloaded from pay Internet sites. The 2003 total for track downloads was 19.2 million, but SoundScan monitored them only during the year's second half."
USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2005-01-05-2004-album-sales_x.htm)