The International Federation Of The Phonographic Industry yesterday published its global sales figures for 2005, but market share information was excluded because the trade association's members (ie the record labels) can't agree on how digital sales (increasingly important in the whole scheme of things) should be taken into account when deciding the relative market share of different industry players. Problems in the way mobile music data is supplied (ie different phone companies do it in different ways) are also being blamed for the delay in getting together market share figures. The IFPI say they hope to have all the stats for 2005 available later this year.
Sep 1, 2006
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IFPI 2005 stats lack market share data
The IFPI has published 2005 global sales figures but left out market share data, as labels disagree on how to treat digital sales.