Industria de la música y ventas en 2013, números reales (EUA) | Variety

Music in 2013: Purchases Down 6%; Timberlake Tops Album Sales | Variety


Por fin un artículo sensato, en el 2013 le fue mal a todo, en general, lo mismo a descargas de álbumes que a compra de CD's, claro el LP gana ahí migajas que algunos ven como resurrección "lazariana" pero es solo crecer dentro de lo pequeño que es como dice el artículo. El buscado disco de esa banda tan extrañamente seguida Daft Punk apenas desplazó 49,000 copias así que hablar del LP como resurgido es una tontería. El CD sigue declinando, pero las descargas lo mismo, por lo menos no crecieron en el 2013.

The only positive news for the biz was a 32% increase in overall music streams to 118.1 billion, comprising data collected by the metrics firm from AOL, Cricket, MediaNet, Rdio, Rhapsody, Slacker, Spotify, YouTube/Vevo and Zune. Nielsen Entertainment senior VP David Bakula noted that the streams had the approximate revenue equivalent of 59 million albums purchased.
Nonetheless, overall music sales transactions slipped 6.3% during the year, down to 1.56 billion from 1.66 billion in 2012.
 
Through the week that ended Dec. 29, total album sales (CDs, digital albums, LPs and cassettes) slumped 8% to 289.4 million, off from 316 million the previous year. Albums had witnessed a 4.4% decline in 2012, after registering a slight increase of 1.3% in 2011.
 
Physical music sales (CDs, cassettes and LPs) plunged 13% to 1.55 million, from 1.66 million in 2012. CD sales plummeted another 14% to 165 million, down from 193 million the prior year.
The most harrowing news for the industry may have been flat sales of digital album downloads. They remained steady at 118 million following a record year in 2012.
 
Digital song sales also lost ground for the first time, off 6% to 1.26 billion songs last year, compared to the record 1.34 billion purchased in 2012.
 
However, the vinyl LP format continued to show signs of life, soaring 33% to 6.1 million units, up from 2012’s 4.55 million. However, vinyl represents just a sliver of the music sales pie. The top-selling LP title, Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories,” shifted only 49,000 (LP) copies.

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