Hi cloudust
Thank you for an interesting question:
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In Europe, there is such a glut of online music services?almost 10
times as many as are available in the United States?that they are
starting to cause confusion in the marketplace.
Online music aggregator OD2 is leading the European market, but will
come under pressure from a number of new market entrants during 2004.
The good news for all these players is that Europe?s 22 million
broadband homes are showing a surprising willingness to pay for
downloaded music, according to our recent European Broadband User
Survey
Players:
Apple iTunes
Microsoft
Napster
Real Networks Rhapsody
Sony
Yahoo
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The use of legal music services in Europe and North America will be
driven by the rapid adoption of broadband internet access as well as
explosive sales of MP3 players and music-enabled mobile phones.
Despite the success that Apple has enjoyed selling individual songs
for 0.82 (99 cents) each, by 2010 over 60 per cent of online music
revenues will come from subscription-based services that give
customers access to millions of songs for a fixed monthly fee.
France:
The number of internet users using a 'peer to peer' application to
download content or listen to music online rose from 2.6 million in
December 2003 to 3.3 million in December 2004. (In terms of the
proportion of households with broadband connections, France now ranks
third in Europe, behind Germany and Spain. )
UK:
Research by Jupiter, the high-technology research group, indicated
that 50 per cent of those who had stopped filesharing cited legal
action as a factor in deterrence. While 5 per cent of UK internet
users still fileshare, 6 per cent now download legally.
Research by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
(IFPI) found that 26m single tracks were downloaded in Britain in
2005, four times as many as 2004
Digital music sales quadrupled in the UK in 2005, making it the
fastest growing digital music market in Europe.
Its annual digital music report also revealed that global revenues
from digital music downloads almost trebled, from $380m (£215.8m) to
$1.1bn (£624.8m) in the last year. 419m tracks were downloaded in
2005, more than double the previous year. The number of people
subscribed to a download service grew 87%, from 1.5m in 2004 to 2.8m
in 2005
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How successful of Apple iTunes Mucis Store in Europe?
Apple?s iTunes Music Store continues to dominate the market for online
music, passing 850 million cumulative downloads in January 2006.
However, recent developments suggest that the iTunes phenomenon may be
nearing its peak. With the high profile joint-venture between Apple
and Motorola failing to transport Apple and iTunes into the mobile
phone domain, the company?s ?mobile strategy? is now missing in
action. Meanwhile, competitors from both the fixed Internet and mobile
sectors are targeting Apple with refined offers that target iTunes
shortcoming and improve on previous mobile music services.
Verizon Wireless? newly-launched V Cast Music service improves
functionality by allowing users to download music to their PCs as well
as directly to mobile phones. It also employs a hybrid payment model
allowing both subscriptions and downloads, as well as compatibility
with a wider digital ecosystem through integration with Microsoft?s
Windows Media Player software. While Apple CEO Steve Jobs is probably
not panicking just yet, he may start to have unpleasant flashbacks to
the seventies, when Apple failed to capitalize on its early lead in
the PC industry.
Source: http://www.strategyanalytics.net/default.aspx?mod=ReportAbstractViewer&a0=2753
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Broadband households in Europe and North America will re-shape the
distribution of recorded music over the next five years, spending
billions of dollars to download music from sources like Apple
Computer's iTunes Music Store, RealNetworks's Rhapsody, Napster, Yahoo
and a hoard of Internet service providers. According to a new report
from the Strategy Analytics Broadband Media and Communications
service, broadband users in these regions will spend over a billion
dollars on online music this year, with sales expected to reach $4.5
billion by 2010. By 2010 more than 60 percent of online music revenues
will come from subscription-based services that give customers access
to millions of songs for a fixed monthly fee.
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And now - the bonus:
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Actually all the info that you need is available in the following
DIGITAL MUSIC REPORT 20056 by IFPI
http://www.ifpi.org/site-content/library/digital-music-report-2006.pdf |
