Key stats from the IFPI Digital Music Report 2008

We've written separately about the IFPI's Digital Music Report, which has just been released. But if you just want the hard numbers, here's some of the main ones.OVERALL FIGURES- More than 1.4 billion legal single-tracks were downloaded in 2008, up 24% from 2007. The top-selling digital single was Lil Wayne's Lollipop with 9.1 million sales.- Digital album sales grew by 36% in 2008.- Digital music generated $3.7 billion of trade revenues in 2008 – up 25% year-on-year.- Digital now accounts for 20% of all recorded music sales, up from 15% in 2007. By contrast, the games industry generates 35% of its revenues digitally (but newspapers, films and magazines are way behind with 4%, 4% and 1% respectively)- The IFPI estimates that more than 40 billion songs were downloaded illegally in 2008 – that's 95% of total music downloadsGLOBAL BREAKDOWN- The US accounts for around 50% of the entire global digital music market value, with 1.1 billion single-track downloads in 2008 (up 27% from 2007) and 66 million digital album sales (up 32%) – these are Nielsen SoundScan figures. Digital was 39% of the overall music market, revenue-wise.- Japan sold 140 million mobile singles in 2008, up 26% on 2007. Digital [...]