{"id":3218,"date":"2013-06-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/06\/04\/french-music-industry-suffers-67-decline-in-sales-for-q1-2013\/"},"modified":"2013-06-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T00:00:00","slug":"french-music-industry-suffers-67-decline-in-sales-for-q1-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/06\/04\/french-music-industry-suffers-67-decline-in-sales-for-q1-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"French music industry suffers 6.7% decline in sales for Q1 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"


The French music industry suffered from a decline in sales of 6.7% in Q1 2013, according to recently released figures. <\/p>\n

The report comes from anti-piracy group Syndicat National de l\u2019\u00e9dition Phonographique (SNEP) in its first quarter results for the year.<\/p>\n

According tho SNEP, the wholesale market for recorded music was worth 107.9 million euros in France, down 6.7% on the same period last year. Overall in 2012, sales fell 4.4%.<\/p>\n

In Q1 2013, physical sales fell by 7.3% and for the first time ever digital sales were also hit \u2013 down 5.2%.<\/p>\n

Downloads of albums demonstrated a little growth \u2013 1.9 million albums were bought in Q1 2013 compared to 1.8 million in Q1 2012.<\/p>\n

During the first quarter of 2013 the number of downloaded singles was down 21% on the same period last year \u2013 10.7 million tracks versus 13.7 million in 2012.<\/p>\n

Overall market share for digital content remained stable at 29%, versus a worldwide average of 35%.<\/p>\n

SNEP – the group that that championed the uptake of the so called three strikes law – says the decline in digital revenues is due to a label deal that expired in 2012 and a YouTube agreement with rights group SACEM that was suspended until the second quarter of 2013.<\/p>\n

Without these \u201cunusual\u201d issues digital revenues would have been stable, SNEP says.<\/p>\n

The numbers come after a government-commissioned report recommended that the county’s anti-piracy law is replaced with 60 euro per time automated fines.<\/p>\n

Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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