Digital Music Sales Down Last Year

January 23, 2014

Digital Music Sales Saw a Decline last Year

We saw this happening in the future but not anytime soon: digital music sales went down last 2013. Purchases dropped by six percent as reported by Billboard. Dropping a small 0.1 percent is digital album sales. As for CD sales, it went for the worse with a 14.5 percent decrease.

Surprisingly, analog music like vinyl records went up by 31.9 percent. This is perhaps because going vintage is the “in” thing now. The number is two percent of all music sales.

As for the music streaming area, no data have been given yet. We expect to hear from Spotify and other similar websites on sales and hits but we’re guessing it will be higher this year.

Here are some more depressing information shared by Billboard:

  • album sales with 8.4% decline (289.4 million from 316 million units in 2012)
  • CD sales only 14.5% (316 million units from 193.4 million units)
  • vinyl record sales hit 6 million units (up from the previous 4.55 million)p
  • digital albums sale was 40.6%
  • CD sale 57.2%
  • cassettes and DVDs only 0.2%.
  • album plus track equivalent albums down by 7.6% to 415.3 million units (from 449.5 million units)

Unlike the previous years, only only album sold more than one million units in 2013. And what album was that? Justin Timberlake’s 20/20 Experience. Honestly, I don’t know any of the song but JT sold 2.4 million units.

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