Music fans who download songs from the internet go on to buy more albums, a survey has suggested.
The survey’s findings oppose the music industry’s long-standing argument that internet downloading is responsible for a slump in CD sales, with album sales falling 5% in the last year.
Market research company Music Programming Ltd (MPL) said 87% of its respondents who downloaded music admitted they bought albums after hearing tracks through the internet.
NB: The BPI wanted to “educate” people to use legitimate downloading sites that paid royalties to artists, she said, adding it was “unlikely” to push for prosecution of heavy “uploaders” of music.
