Cd sales and statistics

Cd sales has dropped massively since last year, as downloads have risen. Sales albums has shown that it dropped 3.5% in 2010. Across the year single sales increased by 32.7%, and 98% of those were digital downloads. More and more people have started to download entire albums, declining the sales of CD albums. To show the declining decrease in album sales in 2009 Zavvi formerly known as Virgin completely collapsed and had to shut down.

" while sales of physical Cd's continue to trend downwards, music fans are clearly responding to the explosive growth of digital retailers and outlets selling and streaming music in the UK. 2009's result is clearly encouraging."

The BPI said the album market was aided by a healthy stream of releases in 2010 with Lady Gaga, Susan Boyle, Micheal Buble etc.

According to the Telegraph they say that ' Vinyl records and cassette tapes have enjoyed a resurgence in popularity, as more music fans ignore Cd's and digital downloads, official sale figure suggests. The official UK chart company showed that old fashioned albums rose more than 5% last year. Cd's have fallen by a fifth in the same amount of time. American sales of Vinyl records topped almost 3 million, an increase of about a million records. Amazon said it had more than 250 000 vinyl albums in stock to meet the growing demands of the customers.

And Internet search engine Yahoo has shown a 210% increase in people searching blank cassette tapes, and 110% increase in people searching music cassette tapes. Most vinyl sales in the past have been made by Dj's and dance music fans, but more rock and country ones have been sold recently.
Music experts say that vinyl sales could be even higher because official sale statistics do not include those from smaller record shops and albums sold at concerts. British sales of 7inch records reached its peak in 1979, with roughley about 89 miliion copies being sold. But Cd's started to become more popular so vinyl sales dropped to 180 000 in 2001. But last year sales rose to about 223 000 million.

"Vinyl sounds richer and there's something special about cover art and the sleeve notes which you cannot get with digital tunes."

The music industry blames the illegal download market for the ever falling sales. Digital piracy makes up 95pc of the global download market. The global music industry sales dropped physically and digitally by 10pc last year. Since new legal music sites have been introduced to us Spotify and Itunes, so far they have failed to stop to problem.