According to a study conducted for the recording industry lobby group, the BPI, at least around 1.2 billion songs are to be illegally downloaded till the end of 2010 only in Britain, it announced this Thursday. This estimation, which has been described as "conservative," by the authorities behind the study, compares to the only around 370 million tracks, either singles or albums, which are expected to be purchased legally this year.
And surprisingly the study also indicated that this year has seen the first single track ever to be download to sell more than million copies, which was the Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" whereas Lady Gaga's "The Fame" album had surpassed 250,000 sales, as calculated by the Official Charts Company data.
BPI statistics for the 12 months ending this September, 2010 show that digital services now account for 24.5 percent of UK record industry revenue from 19.2 percent a year earlier, showing the drastic increase in online selling and buying of songs. These rising levels of income from digital music are however not offsetting declining revenues from falling CD sales.
Along other calculations the study also estimated around the total number of people in the UK who actually downloading music illegally on a regular basis has risen above 7.7 million.
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