Xmas Week Digital Sales Shatter Records
My 13-year-old niece got a bunch of iTunes gift cards for Christmas, and I guess a lot of other kids (of all ages) did,
too. 20-million downloads were sold in the week
ending january 1, exploding through the roof of previous sales records. the total for 2005 is 352-million purchased
downloads. That's a little more than the estimated 250-million unlicensed P2P downloads every week. But what I
find frustrating about sales statistics is that we never learn about the number of songs streamed in Rhapsody, Napster,
Yahoo! Music Unlimited-- not to mention the number of downloads from eMusic. In other words, subscription action is
completely unrepresented. And since many observers (including this one) believe that subscription services represent
the future of digital music, the spotlight is shining in the wrong corner.
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