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• Music market shares in October 2008
• 19.6 mln Symbian phones shipped in Q2 2008
• Top US music retailers: Apple, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Amazon, Target
• 41% of online buyers of music ordered a CD and 58% downloaded digital files
• 56% of music buyers could buy music online
• How do online music buyers find out about new music?
• What online users do after buying music
• Music buying by ages
• 12% of music buyers purchase digital music files
• 83% music buyers find their music from hearing a song on the radio, on TV, or in a movie
• 27% of internet users downloaded music from the internet in 2008
• What do music buyers do after buying music online?
• How people learn about music they may want to buy
• Music consumption statistics
• 53% of online Americans purchased music in 2007
• 32% of internet users buy music online
• 56% of those who bought music most recently said they could have made the purchase online
• 62% of Americans say all of the music they buy are CDs
• Sharing content and buzz after buying music
• How people learn about music they may want to buy
• How Internet users find out about new music
• What people do after buying music online
• Demographics of an online music buyer
• 12% of music buyers purchase digital music files
• 24% of US teens write music
• How internet users who have bought music in 2007 use online resources to learn about music
• 37% of US consumers own a portable MP3 player
• Most popular music download services: iTunes, Napster
• How digital music gets on the users’ phones
• 28% of those online users who listen to radio have a MySpace page
• 33 mln Americans listen to online radio stations
• 500 mln music phones shipped in 2007
• 74.1% of iPhone owners listened to mobile music in January 2008
• 64% of Canadian teens have downloaded digital music
• Top US music retailers: Wal-Mart, Apple
• 48% of US teens did not buy a single CD in 2007
• 4.85 bln hours spent on online music in 2007
• Average MP3 player only 57% full
• By 2011 50% of music sold in the US will be digital
• 17% of US kids watch movies on portable players
• Top overall music destinations for US teens: iTunes, Limewire, MySpace
• 81% of Chinese Internet users have IM, 56.5% use e-mail
• US recording industry revenues down $11 bln in 2006
• 220 mln ringtones sold for $567 mln in 2007
• Top-selling polyphonic ringtones in 2007
• Top-selling mastertone ringtones in 2007
• Most streamed Internet songs in 2007
• Top Internet music videos in 2007
• Global digital music sales up 40% in 2007
• Most frequently played artists in the US in 2007
• Most frequently played songs in the US in 2007
• 840 mln digital tracks purchased in the US in 2007
• 1.4 bln music purchases in 2007 in the US
• Top-selling artists of the last two decades: Garth Brooks, Beatles, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion
• Top-selling digital albums in the US in 2007
• Top-selling digital tracks in the US in 2007
• Top-selling digital artists in the US in 2007: Fergie, Timbaland, Rihanna
• Subscription music market to reach $3.3 bln in 2012
• Top-selling songs in the US in 2007
• Top-selling artists in the US in 2007: Josh Groban, Hannah Montana, Eagles
• Noel by Josh Groban is the top-selling album in the US in 2007
• 2007 digital track sales in the US
• US HD radio adoption to reach 30 mln by 2012
• 2007 digital album sales in the US
• Europeans spent 401.2 mln euros in 2007
• Music market shares in US in 2007
• Digital catalog sales up 64% in 2007, deep catalog up 63%
• 27 songs sold more than 100K copies after-Christmas in 2007
• 2007 US music sales by genre
• UK online music sales reached 2.9 mln tracks in the last week of 2007
• Music sales volume in the US in 2007
• 500.5 mln albums were sold in 2007
• Digital music accounted for 10% of music purchases in 2007
• Half of Mac users and 16% of PC users buy music online
• US digital music spending to reach $3.4 bln by 2012
• 44k MPEG transcoders and encoders to ship by 2011
• Top music sites in August 2007: Yahoo! Music, ArtistDirect, MySpace Music
• PMP/MP3 player market to grow to 275 mln units by 2011
• Digital music sales up 49% in the first half of 2007
• 27.9 mln Americans to have music phones by year-end 2007
• EMEA satellite radio subscriptions to generate $30.1 bln in 2011
• 72% of online Americans listen to music on their PCs
• Asia Pacific music market to generate $12.2 bln in 2011
• Top music retailers in Q1 2007: Wal-Mart, Best Buy, iTunes, Amazon, Target
• 150.2 mln Flash-equipped MP3 players to sell in 2011
• Mobile music generated $703.2 mln in China in 2006
• 268.6 mln PMP and MP3 players to ship in 2011
• 10% of all music sold in Europe in 2007 will be digital music
• 26% of all music sold will be digital in 2011
• Global online music market to grow 62% in 2007
• 630 mln devices shipped in 2006 supported MPEG
• Music player market shares: Apple - 73.7%, SanDisk - 9%
• 47 mln digital music households in the US in 2006
• MP3 player sales up 23% in 2006
• $2 bln worth of digital tracks sold in 2006
• Digital music sales up 67% in 2006
• 41 mln MP3 players to ship in 2007
• Music sales breakdown in 2005 and 2006
• iTunes revenues up 84% in Q1-Q3 2006 versus Q1-Q3 2005
• Music sales down 4.9% in 2006, digital music up 65% in 2006
• 26.7% of US households have an MP3 player
• Mobile music to generate $32 bln by 2010
• Mobile music to generate $25 mln in 2006
• 100 mln digital music players sold by 2011
• 58% of iPod owners who are shopping for another music player would buy Zune
• Asian mobile music market generated $3.3 bln in 2005
• UK ringtone market generated 177 mln pounds in 2005
• US flash player market: Apple - 68%, SanDisk - 14%
• Percentage of time dedicated to radio among various age groups
• 73% of UK downloaders download music regularly
• Singapore MP3 player market up 77% in 2005
• 14 mln MP3 players sold in Asia-Pacific in 2005
• In 2005 8% of American Internet users paid for digital music, in 2006 - 23%
• 28% of Americans have a digital music player
• Sales of digital albums up 126% in the first half of 2006
• Average digital single sales in 4 months from the track release
• 9.7 mln simultaneous file-sharers worldwide in May 2006
• 50 mln Americans to subscribe to wireless music services by 2010, pay more than $1 bln
• 35% of business users store songs on their business PCs
• 42% of German Internet users have paid for music online
• Digital music broadband value-added revenues up 237% in 2005
• Music sales down 3% in 2005
• UK digital music market: iTunes - 44%, AllOfMP3.com - 14%
• 140 mln MP3 players sold in 2005, 286 mln by 2010
• 75% of UK Internet users still prefer CD as the format for owning music
• Linux market in China generated $11.8 mln in 2005
• Top online radio destinations: Yahoo! Music, AOL Radio, Clear Channel
• 63% of US kids and teens do not download copyrighted content being afraid of virus
• 12.3 mln US households to listen to podcasts by 2010
• UK digital music market: iTunes - 44%, AllOfMP3.com - 14%, Napster - 8%
• Global music revenues down 4% to $21 bln in 2005
• European online music sales to generate $4.7 bln in 2011
• 41% of CD revenues in 2005 ame from heavy buyers
• 1 bln iTunes tracks sold
• 10% of digital music players in the US sold through Amazon
• MP3 players with HDD grew 549% in Australia in 2005
• 38% of teenagers are interested in buying digital music videos
• Top music sites: Yahoo! Music, AOL Music, iTunes
• Most of consumers willing to pay $1.75 per ringtone
• 75% of music fans say CDs are too expensive
• Digital music to be a $8.2 bln market by 2010
• Ringtone sales reached $600 mln in 2005, Candy Shop by 50 Cent top seller
• Digital music was a $1.1 bln industry in 2005
• 500K Napster subscribers
• Digital music player accessories generated $412 mln in Q1-Q3 2005
• 650 HD radio stations in the US
• 6 mln XM Radio subscribers, 3.3 mln Sirius subscribers
• 20 mln digital music tracks sold in the last week of 2005
• Album sales down 7.2% in 2005
• CD and digital album sales down 8% in 2005
• 28 mln of US cars to support auxiliary audio-in jacks by 2011
• Music CD sales down 7% in 2005
• Sales of top 10 albums down 40% during Thanksgiving week 2005
• 80% of MP3 player buyers in China and Korea have an MP3 player already
• 15% of European Internet users download illegal music, 5% buy it in legal online stores
• Top music retailers in Q3 2005: Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Target, Amazon.com
• 4% of all music sold in the first half of 2005 was digital
• 34% of wireless subscribers interested in mobile digital music
• 59% of iPod owners are interested in multimedia phone
• 47% of young Americans find new music on the Internet, 27% - on the radio
• 51% of online teens download music online
• Music subscription services up 150% in 2004, 109% in 2005, 45% in 2006
• Apple to own 41% of music player market by 2006
• 16% of all music sold in Europe and North America in 2010 will be sold online
• Streaming and download media business to reach $1,378,000,000 in 2005
• 31% of digital music spending comes from women
• 945.5 mln digital music players shipped by 2009, $145.4 bln industry
• Most popular online radio stations: Yahoo! Music, AOL Radio, Clear Channel
• Digital music sales generated $790 mln in the first half of 2005
• 78% of illegal music downloading in Canada is done by 12-24 year olds
• 59.6% of Web radio listeners are male
• Satellite radio market: XM - 4.4 mln customers, Sirius - 2.1 mln
• In Japan $122.1 mln worth of music is sold through cell phones, $4.8 mln - through PCs
• 41% of American MP3 player owners would not pay more than $10 a month for music subscription
• 50% of digital music player owners have less than 100 songs on them
• 6% of mobile phone owners have downloaded full songs to their phones
• Most popular online radio networks: ClearChannel, Yahoo! Music, AOL Radio
• Digital downloads account for 2% of UK music market
• 41% of US digital music player owners are willing to pay $10 a month maximum for music
• 98% of Japanese mobile music downloads were to cell phones
• 29% of all music sold in the US in 2004 was burned to a CD
• 46.77% of BitTorrent traffic is video
• 61.44% of P2P traffic is video, 11.34% is audio
• Top 10 countries for music piracy: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, Paraguay, Russia, Spain, and Ukraine
• 10.8% of US households have MP3 players
• European CD sales 2000-2004
• Music market shares: Universal - 25.5%, Sony BMG - 21.5%, EMI - 13.4%, Warner Music - 11.3%
• 46.8 mln satellite radio subscribers by 2014
• 39.1% of adults 24 and younger say Internet is the primary way they listen to music
• Peer-to-peer music downloaders spend 4.5 times as much on legal music
• iPod ownership is mostly male, ages 18-28
• 180 mln digital music tracks sold in the first half of 2005
• Digital music to become a $1 bln industry in the US by 2007
• 158 mln digital music tracks sold in the US in the first half of 2005
• 10 mln digital music tracks sold in UK in the first half of 2005
• 159 mln digital music tracks sold in the US in the first half of 2005
• 60 mln podcast listeners by 2010, 4.5 mln in 2005
• Online music audience age and household income
• Top online music sites: AOL Music, Yahoo! Music, iTunes, MSN Music
• 41% of digital music buyers switched to digital music once they got broadband

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