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Download music sales were boosted by the launch of MyCokeMusic
Sales of legal music downloads have reached a new high to become the second most popular singles format in the UK.
More than 150,000 downloads were sold last month, exceeding sales of 12-inch, seven-inch and DVD singles, the Official Charts Company reported.

This included a record 50,000 downloads in the week after the 19 January launch of online music service MyCokeMusic.

CD singles remain the most popular singles format, however, with 341,461 sold during that week.

The Official Charts Company (OCC) began compiling legal music download figures in October, with a view to developing a separate download chart.

It said download sales had risen each month since October, but the January 2004 figures were the first to have been published.

The OCC also intends to integrate downloads into its Official Singles Chart later this year.

Albums boost

Meanwhile sales of CD albums rose by 5.6% in the UK last year, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) reported.

New British artists and falling retail prices have helped the UK buck the worldwide decline in recorded music sales, it said.

The rise in sales resulted in a UK record industry revenue of £1,112m last year, an increase of 2.1% on 2002.

"This is an exceptional result considering the huge pressure the recorded music market is under worldwide," said BPI chairman Peter Jamieson.

Between 1998 and 2002, the last full year for which data was available, worldwide sales of recorded music fell by 18%. Over the same period the value of sales in the UK rose by 6%.

Mr Jamieson said the UK music industry was going through a "strong patch" thanks to high sales of albums by rock bands The Darkness and Lostprophets, and jazz stars Jamie Cullum and Katie Melua.

Traditional singles sales continued to fall last year, however, with the value of non-download singles sales dropping 33.6% last year to £64.4m.

Source: BBCi News

This is the reason why i pay £8 for vinyls in HMV now, bastards

Id pay for legal downloads if they had a decent catalog of trance music and I could choose the quality of the mp3 ..

i buy vinyl, rarely buy cd's. i wouldnt pay for a legal download no matter what, whats the point.

a sense of well being? pfft give me my money back.

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Originally posted by TranceMuzik02 This is the reason why i pay £8 for vinyls in HMV now, bastards

ever since i can rememeber, (about 3 years ago) vinyl have been 7.99 in hmv, coz theyre imported and they dont like having to import stuff so the bosh a massive amount on top.

on the other hand they used to have uk bonzai and duty free recordings for 3.99 and positiva (haha) for 2.99

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Originally posted by Cru5ad3r Id pay for legal downloads if they had a decent catalog of trance music and I could choose the quality of the mp3 ..

yes, this would probbaly be useful for people who want to play it on cd, i think there is a similar system to this but you pick a load of track then they burn them in wav form to cd and send you it.

probably be more useful to you if u wanna play psy which most of the tiem comes on hard to get CD's and never vinyl anyway

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Last month we put up a site for Warp Recods entire back-catalogue called Bleep.com

It took 5000 orders in the first week, with each mp3 being 99p or above.

Tis the future.

We're now rolling it out for all the other labels we deal with, like Nunjatune etc...

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whats the point of paying for an mp3 when you can download it for free and you wont get incarcerated (at the moment)
if i pay then i want something in my hand not a virtual music file
are mp3s gonna be collectors items in the future?

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Originally posted by mentalbarter whats the point of paying for an mp3 when you can download it for free and you wont get incarcerated (at the moment) if i pay then i want something in my hand not a virtual music file are mp3s gonna be collectors items in the future?

Agree, i would rather have it on a piece of material, eg. vinyl or CD than a vitual song that i have to pay for.

Well Solidstate is feasibly more reliable than cd or vinyl and will be a pretty important medium in the coming years.

I saw a piccy of a box-set from some conference last year that was a really plush box with two mmc cards in it, all branded up, looked the dogs bollocks.

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are there any pay per download serivces that offer an extensive electronica listings? like Audiogalxy's content. If so I would be interested, especially for rarer tracks at a good quality.

I wouldnt mind paying for some hard to get mp3s if they were well ripped .. that bleep.com site has gone with the alt preset vbr standard which is a good move .. a site with a decent electronic catalog and id be hard pushed not to spend a few pennies

I haven't checked out napster since it relaunched, but i think that was supposed to be a pay per download service taking proper licensed releases.

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