US digital sales up 2% in volume and 12% in value but subscription slumps
Tuesday, May 3rd 2011 at 9:54AMA total of 1.16bn tracks were sold last year, up from 1.13bn in 2009. The value of the single-track market grew from $1.22bn (?0.73bn) to $1.36bn (?0.82bn) in the period.
Digital album sales grew 8.8% in unit terms (to 83.1m units) and 8.6% in value (to $828.8m (?496.7m)) between 2009 and 2010.
Against these rises, however, both subscription and mobile revenues were down.
Mobile revenues slumped by 27.7% to $526.7m (?315.7m), with the sector being heavily affected by a 41% ...
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