“US download music sales increased by 77% in the first half of 2006, while album sales fell by 4.2%, according to research company Nielsen Soundscan,” BBC News reports.
“More than 14 million full-album downloads were bought, compared with 6.5 million purchased during the first six months of 2005,” The Beeb reports.
“Although digital sales are growing, music fans are eschewing the more profitable full-album downloads in favour of cherry-picking a few songs,” The Beeb reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: Apple’s iTunes Music Store dominates the U.S. market with 72% of music downloads according to NPD Group.
Advertisements:
• Introducing the super-fast, blogging, podcasting, do-everything-out-of-the-box MacBook. Starting at just $1099.
• Get the new iMac with Intel Core Duo for as low as $31 A MONTH with Free shipping!
• Get the MacBook Pro with Intel Core Duo for as low as $47 A MONTH with Free Shipping!
• Apple’s new Mac mini. Intel Core, up to 4 times faster. Starting at just $599. Free shipping.
• iPod. 15,000 songs. 25,000 photos. 150 hours of video. The new iPod. 30GB and 60GB models start at just $299. Free shipping.
• Connect iPod to your television set with the iPod AV Cable. Just $19.
• iPod Radio Remote. Listen to FM radio on your iPod and control everything with a convenient wired remote. Just $49.
I once shot a Channel Z in Reno …
just to watch him die.
Your all petty. I’m just contributing, nothing more.
With Trusted Computing coming, you’ll all be on your knees bowwing to me in the near future.
Its that simple.
“You can copy the name, but not the IP address.”
How would anyone know?
Only I can use color.
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” />
Channel Z: “Your all petty. I’m just contributing, nothing more.
With Trusted Computing coming, you’ll all be on your knees bowwing to me in the near future.
Its that simple.”
I think you meant “You’re all petty.” And also “…you’ll all be on your knees bowing…”
Finally, “It’s that simple.”
Another glorious example of the fine quality of the US educational system. Remember, on the internet, everyone can see what you type.
I think you meant “You’re all petty.” And also “…you’ll all be on your knees bowing…”
That’s the Channel Z clone.
I’m the real one and I didn’t post that.
You’ll know the real one by the colorized seal of approval.
” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” />
Sputnik/MacDude/Channel Z:
Personality disorder? Why so relentless, buddy?
“Only I can use <span style=”color:#FF00FF;”>color</span>”
Hmmm . . .
I’m the <span style=”color:#FF00FF;”>real one</span> and I didn’t post that.
<color:#66FF33> Color </color:#66FF33> is for sissies.
Hahahaha!, you color copycats suck Ballmers sweaty a$$.
Sputnik/MacDude/Channel Z:
Sorry, I was never Sputnik.
Personality disorder? Why so relentless, buddy?
No and it’s been a slow news weekend so why not have some fun?
Let loose a little, act CrAzY because tommorow is Monday and we have to go back to being conformists.
*flings boogie and photo booths ass with iSight camera*
<font color=”chartreuse”>Indeed.</font>
<font color=”blue”>Hmmm… Does this board not know about chartreuse?</font>
Wrong tag I guess… :shrug:
channel z
What is a good song? what is a crap one?
what makes u decide if its good?
it seems most songs i listen to the first time snd strange and i dont seem to like them, but over time i come to like them.
some artist work hard to make a full cd with songs that are supposed to follow one another
it seems channel z you must be missing alot so you can have a massive surface scraping
love to hear some examples of your Good Songs/Crap Songs
if colour is spelled color
how do u spell colourful?
do u pronounce it like colon or collar or cull?
Yep. Personality disorder.
Hehehe more color moths to the flame. *poof* burn baby burn.
what makes u decide if its good?
If I think I can stand listening to it over and over and if I buy it.
it seems most songs i listen to the first time snd strange and i dont seem to like them, but over time i come to like them.
Well paying for a whole cd hoping you’ll like the crap songs later is not the way to go.
With iTMS one can keep sampling the crap and see BEFORE buying it.
And one can alays come back later and buy the crap if they really wanted to.
some artist work hard to make a full cd with songs that are supposed to follow one another
And some artists make a cd with songs that sound just like one another.
iTMS gives consumers CHOICE, something we need.
If I have to pay $20 a cd, I rather be a pirate and then everyone loses.
MDN Word: “Choice” I like having a choice and not being forced to buy overpriced plastic.
Yep. Personality disorder.
Yea but what kind? heheehehe.
it seems channel z you must be missing alot so you can have a massive surface scraping
let me get this straight, I don’t buy a artists crappy songs because I rather spend the money sampling other artists better music.
And I’m supposely missing something?
How can I miss something when I sampled the crappy songs and didn’t like them?
Since I’m not going to listen to crappy songs, why bother wasting my precious hard drive space when it can be filled with music I do like?
You make no sense.
love to hear some examples of your Good Songs/Crap Songs
I bet you would, I’ve spent many hours rating my 7400 music collection and it’s still not even close to being done. 4,900 songs yet to be rated!!!
What screwed me up was all the cd’s I ripped with the crappy songs.
With iTMS I make my decision right when I’m sampling it, this way it doesn’t even get on my machine.
With the cd rips, I have more work to do. Another hassle and why cd’s are obsolete.
Do you think Microsoft will sell the new player at loss like the XBox 360 to gain market. Maybe the unit will be equivalent to the 60 Video iPod but have wireless and they will sell it at 199.00 to get people to buy it and gain market? What do you think????
Scott
MacDailyNews
Thanks Holy Mackerel for the laugh.
And I agree with both Channel Z and Majikthize. Sometimes I buy individual songs, but I mostly buy albums and find that most of the time I end up liking all the songs, or 90% of them, after listening to them for a while, even though the 30-sec preview of the song didn’t initially interest me.
So that makes Channel Z right that I end up with some songs I don’t like, but since I don’t spend my time really trying to differentiate the chaff from the grain on iTMS, I think it’s not a big deal that I end up with a 10% dud songs in my Library and on my iPod, and I save a little time when purchasing.
To me, buying music these days on iTMS is like paying for TV. I enjoy consuming the content, not all of it is good, I probably won’t want to watch a program over and over again indefinately, I keep paying over time, and I enjoy the stuff while it still interests me. I am just paying for entertainment.