Factsheet - The Legitimate Download Market

• Single track downloads in the US, the UK, Germany and France have risen to 180 million in the first half of 2005 compared to 157 million for the whole of 2004. This is more than three times the 57 million downloads of the first half of 2004.
  
  
• There are at well over 1 million tracks on the major services iTunes, Napster and Rhapsody.
  
  
• There are at least 500,000 tracks on any one service, across Europe.
  
  
• There are over 300 online sites worldwide - up threefold on one year ago - and around 190 online music sites in Europe. The cross-industry www.pro-music.org site now features a comprehensive worldwide directory of legitimate online services.
  
  
• The expansion of services in Europe is being driven by a mix of major players and independent services. Loudeye - owners of OD2 - have services in over 20 countries and iTunes has a presence in 17 European markets.
  
  
• iTunes sold its 500 millionth song on July 18th.
  
  
• Global subscriptions to legal online services reached 2.2 million, up from 1.5 million subscriptions estimated in IFPI’s Digital Music Report in January.
  
  
• Legal download services are present in 23 countries in Europe.
  
  
• Some 18 services in Europe have a presence in two or more markets.
  
  
• Jupiter found that 37% of currently active file-sharers in the UK have already started to cut down because of the fear of legal action¹.
  
  
• Nearly half the music consumers in the US surveyed by NPD group state that the number one reason for stopping illegal file-sharing was concern about getting sued. 40% said they had become too annoyed by the amount of spyware, adware and viruses found on P2P networks².

Notes

¹ Jupiter UK Music Consumer Survey, April 2005
² NPD "Digital Music Landscape Shifting" press release June 23, 2005