Some 7.7 million tracks were bought and downloaded since the end of June – compared with four million CD singles sold, Billboard magazine reported. The figures show the success of new legitimate music download services. But some say online and CD single sales cannot be compared because so few singles are now released on CD.
They are trying to tempt fans from unauthorised free download services like Kazaa and Morpheus, which have been blamed by the music industry for falling CD sales.
In the week ending 26 October, 857,000 songs were sold over the internet – compared to just 170,000 in record shops, Billboard said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3237021.stm
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