It’s funny, because for a moment there I thought you said ‘download cannibalization‘…
And these are just the paid ones. According to IFPI stats, paid downloads traditionally represent about 1/20th of broader downloads (the rest being illegally obtained). Which means there at least half-a-trillion downloads waiting for or entering a cloud-enabled reincarnation – on iTunes Match, Amazon Cloud Drive, or Google Play.
The dataset is here.
Written while listening to Fedde Le Grand.
Paul, doesn’t this chart just shows cumulative totals? We need yearly downloads to see what’s happening with downloads vs streams.
Itunes is the largest source of revenue for the music labels
Spotify is now #2 (at $500 million in 2013)
#3 is probably Amazon.
“Spotify is now #2”
Like Napoleon at Waterloo. 🙂
Quite a pathetic number 2, wouldn’t you say? 🙂
This shows that Spotify is absolutely worthless to artists, compared to iTunes.
Here’s spotify royalties payment to the right holders (denoted by Cost of Sales)
2008: 409,753 pounds
2009: 18,823,093 pounds
2010: 64,801,478 pounds
2011: ?
2012: ?
2013: projected to be 500 million USD
Source: Spotify annual financial statements
Your off-topic Spamify reports are getting boring…
“paid downloads traditionally represent about 1/20th of broader downloads (the rest being illegally obtained)”
Which is why suing pirates is such an attractive option!
A clear majority of the population want to punish illegal downloaders. Moderate fines — such as $100 per infringement — is the preferred measure.
Think about it:
500,000,000,000 x $100 waiting out there… 🙂
Small claims court?
I think you know the procedure…
I prefer $150,000 per infringement.
You shouldn’t try so hard if you want to sound like a content owner.
Content owners don’t prefer these insane amounts. We prefer fair and realistic fines that won’t ruin anybody.
So does a clear majority of the population. $100-200 per infringement.
the upward curve is due to deeper adoption of ipods/iphones. in 2006 the number of people who had iphones (or only one ipod, say) vs now is significant — everyone has one, including 12 year olds, 65 year olds, etc. not the case even 5 years ago.
i’d like to see a chart that also shows illegal d’loading for same years. my guess it would have the same arc, so the whole idea of saying “look, paid downloads are increasing, so illegal d’loads and streaming and youtube must have actually helped paid downloads” argument seems a little specious.
Also don’t forget… as it became cheaper/easier to upload to iTunes via services or directly…and as entry level music “producing” programs got cheaper, everyone releasing an ‘album’ every week, a song every week…. each of those artists probably bought their own craptastic album/song a few times. so that’s gotta account for 20 billion.
50,000,000 tracks on iTunes (conservative estimate) / $20 billion in sales = $40 per track
I think the chart should look like the one below. It’s hard to argue against a very growth in the past quartile.
Calculations based on the data provided here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmQ4i0PAdmCndHlQUE5JOVd1aVJPdkROX0RUdVZhaHc&usp=sharing
Al