Trade revenues for global recorded music market totaled $17.03 billion in 2009 according to the IFPI – a year-on-year decline of 7.2%.<\/p>\n
The trade group’s annual “Recording Industry in Numbers” shows that physical sales were down 12.7% on a global basis to $11.93 billion, but this was a smaller decline than the 15% slump in physical sales for 2008.<\/p>\n
Almost 80% of the global fall was the result of market decline in the two largest music markets – the U.S. and Japan. Music sales in Japan were down 10.8% in 2009 to $4.05 billion, and the U.S. was down 10.7% to $4.63 billion.<\/p>\n
Sales of recorded music were up in 13 markets, though. And six markets experienced what the IFPI calls the ‘Holy Grail’ – growth in digital sales that was strong enough to offset the physical decline. The six countries are: U.K., India, South Korea, Thailand, Mexico and Australia.<\/p>\n
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Global digital revenue increased 9.2% to $4.31 billion. Digital now accounts for 25.3% of all music sales.<\/p>\n
Digital sales are already well established in North America – U.S. digital sales accounted for 43% of all U.S. music sales in 2009, while Canada’s digital sales were 20% of its total – and digital growth across this region was only 1.1% in 2009. The overall North American market was down 10.4% with physical sales slumping 17.9%.<\/p>\n
Europe was the second fastest growing region for digital revenues in 2009, up by 29.7%, but the region’s digital share of revenues is still below the global average of 13%. The best digital growth was in Australia\/New Zealand – 41.4%.<\/p>\n
The U.K. was still the third largest market, up 1.9% in 2009 to $1.57 billion. U.K. trade body the BPI’s 1.4% growth, reported this week, did not include performance rights income.<\/p>\n
The IFPI said that Germany’s market was resilient – down 3% to $1.53 billion, to put it at No. 4. Germany’s physical sales represent 85% of that market, and in dollar terms the IFPI estimates that the German music retail market is worth $2.148 billion – just $5 million less than the U.K.<\/p>\n
Following the passage of anti-piracy measures in France, that market stabilized: it was down 2.7%, in fifth place, for a total of $947.7 million.<\/p>\n
The real horror stories in 2009 were Spain, down 14.3%, and Italy, which slumped by 17.4%.<\/p>\n
Sweden’s market soared by 11.9% in the year that the IPRED law was introduced, enabling rights holders to use court orders to oblige ISPs to hand over the details of copyright infringers. Sweden’s Spotify also became a major brand in that country last year, with 1 million users in a population of 9 million.<\/p>\n
South Korea’s market increased 10.4%, following the implementation of a graduated response scheme to tackle online piracy alongside the launch of unlimited MP3 services. It is unique among major, top 20 markets in having a digital sector accounting for more than 50% – it is 55% digital, 45% physical – of the total recorded music market.<\/p>\n
Australia was up 4.3%, with digital sales soaring 43.4% and physical sales down just 2.1%.<\/p>\n
Performance rights income was up 7.6% for a worldwide total of $785 million. On a retail basis, the IFPI estimates that the global recorded music market was worth $25.44 billion in 2009.<\/p>\n
Susan Boyle’s “I Dreamed A Dream” was the biggest selling album around the world in 2009 with sales of 8.3 million, according to the IFPI.<\/p>\n
Source: Billboard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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