Monday, 29. January 2007

‘F’ word haunts music industry


With global music sales down for a seventh straight year, the talk at an annual industry meeting in Cannes, France, has become heated over how to develop digital sales against competition from the dreaded F word - free.

Global sales are expected to be down again for 2006 despite digital sales almost doubling to $US2 billion and the popularity of music being as strong as ever.

uberlounge.com

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