The BPI is delighted with the downloading results, which are pushing single sales, but still not over-hyping downloads just yet. "Despite the incredible growth in download sales it would be wrong to write-off physical formats just yet." BPI chairman Peter Jamieson said. 5.7 million Songs were legally downloaded in the UK in the entire of 2004.
The BPI now says it is beginning to see good results from this resource which is was forced to setup due to massive amounts of illegal music filesharing on legal P2P services like Kazaa or the eDonkey2000 network. "The record industry has enthusiastically embraced the new legal download services since their emergence in the mainstream little more than a year ago, and now we're beginning to reap the rewards," Mr Jamieson said.
"The battle against illegal filesharing will continue, but we are delighted to have hit this milestone so soon," he continued. Overall there has been a 52.4% improvement in single sales, with 1.4 million seven-inch singles sold.
Source:
BBC News
Written by: James Delahunty @ 11 Jul 2005 18:21