Music Ally

The IFPI has published its latest set of data on recorded music sales in 2007, including performance rights revenues as part of the total figure for the first time. Strip those out, and you’e left with recorded music sales of $18.8 billion in 2007, down 4% from 2006. Digital revenues increased by 39% during the year. South Korea was the best market for digital in terms of percentages  61% of recorded music sales there were digital. It was followed by the US (24%), India (17%), Japan (16%) and Canada (11%). None of the other top 20 music markets had double-digit percentages of digital revenue.

You thought the Czech Academy of Sciences was focused on funding magnetostratigraphic studies of cenozoic volcanics (didn’t you?), but it seems it was all a giant front for music piracy. Well, kind of. Okay, so the Academy is kosher, but it was the unwitting host of a server holding up to 4 terabytes of pre-release (more…)