Digital downloads had a short run as the top-selling format in the music industry. It took until 2011, a decade after the original iPod came out, for their sales surpass those of CDs and ...

But the first-sale doctrine only applies to tangible goods, such as CDs. Digital music downloads (just like movies and TV shows and books) come with a completely different, much more limited set ...

Trending on Billboard To be clear, Evermore had more than vinyl LPs and digital downloads aiding its sales that week. Evermore‘s CD sales were bolstered by the availability of CDs signed by ...

Downloading music online is finally more popular than purchasing a CD in the United ... be wise to embrace digital and make as much of their content available for download as possible.

Believe it or not, but amidst the sprawling dominance of digital music platforms, compact discs (CDs) are experiencing a ...

In 2014, streaming revenue eclipsed CD sales for the first time, and did the same for digital downloads in 2015. Yet, as the physical CD readies to slide into its saddle and ride into the sunset ...

Comparatively, CD sales plummeted by 18 percent in 2022 ... to the previous year to a record high of $13.3 billion. Digital download sales, however, continue to decline. The format plummeted ...

Music has since gone from being sold on vinyl to the birth of cassette tapes, the rise of CDs and now the explosion in digital downloads. The £87million from digital sales in January, February ...

By Steve Knopper In the Napster era, paid downloads were a music industry ... where options include streaming as well purchasing digital music, vinyl or CDs. “It’s a business that has been ...

After all, whilst everyone remembers the first record they bought, how many remember their first download? In the final analysis, unlike the tactile loveliness of a vinyl record, or even a shiny new ...