Another survey predicting gloom but some hope for you record industry types. The gloom is that the decline in record sales will continue, the hope that online and especially mobile music will boom in the next few years. In fact, according to this survey by research firm eMarketer, the value of mobile music is already expected to almost double this year, from $1.7 billion in 2007 to about $3 billion. By 2011 mobile music should be generating $7.3 billion. Online sales won't grow quite so fast, but will still be generating $7.5 billion by 2011, meaning that in three years time combined digital music surveys should account for 56% of the record industry's income. So, I'd be getting me head around mobile music platforms if I was you.
Aug 7, 2007
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Mobile music set to boom
Research firm eMarketer predicts mobile music sales will almost double to around $3 billion this year and reach $7.3 billion by 2011.