Digital Downloads Infographic
Top 10 Digital Downloads
How they overtake the physical sales today
Digital distribution describes the delivery of media content such as audio, video, software and video games, without the use of physical media usually
over online delivery mediums, such as the Internet. It bypasses conventional physical distribution methods, such as paper, CDs, or DVDs.
Digital music
Digital downloads accounted for a record 50.3% of all music sales in the US last year contributing to a rise in total album sales for the first time since
2004
In the US, only 16.5 per cent of internet users aged 13+ purchased digital music in the third quarter of 2010, according to NPD Group.
In 2010, the global digital music sector was worth an estimated US$ 4.6 billion, up six per cent on 2009.
The global top 10 selling digital singles of 2011:
| Artist | Song Title | Sales (million) |
| Bruno Mars
Bruno Mars LMFAO Jennifer Lopez Adele Lady Gaga Pitbull Ft. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer Black Eyed Peas Maroon 5 Bruno Mars |
Just The Way You Are
Grenade Party Rock Anthem On The Floor Rolling in The Deep Born This Way Give Me Everything The Time (Dirty Bit) Moves Like Jagger The Lazy Song |
12.5
10.2 9.7 8.4 8.2 8.2 8.2 7.3 7.0 6.5 |
E-book
In 2010 e-books continued to gain in their own underground markets. Unofficial (and occasionally unauthorized) catalogs of books became available over the
web, and sites devoted to e-books began disseminating information about e-books to the public.
In December 2010, e-books grew a dramatic +164% compared to the previous year ($49.5 million vs $18.7 million)
Sales increasing shows that there’s potential for authors to make serious cash from e-book sales.
Virtually, every book publishing category showed growth in one or both comparisons, with the phenomenal popularity of e-books continuing.
Amazon.com top 10 best selling e-books of 2011 :
1. The Hunger Games-Suzanne Collins
2. Catching Fire-Suzanne Collins
3. Mockingjay-Suzanne Collins
4. The Help-Kathryn Stockett
5. The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo-Stieg Larsson
6. Wife by Wednesday-Catherine Bybee
7. The Litigators-John Grisham
8. 11/22/63-Stephen King
9. The Drop-Michael Connelly
10. Kill Alex Cross-James Patterson
Movies & Videos
Itunes top 10 most downloaded flicks of 2011 :
1. The Social Network
2. Limitless
3. No Strings Attached
4. Just Go With It
5. The Lincoln Lawyer
6. Bridesmaids
7. Source Code
8. Tangled
9. The King’s Speech
10. RED
The growth of legal download and digital rental sales according to the British Video, the market for legal downloads of films more than doubled from £35m to £78m in 2010, while rental-style digital services grew in value by £5m to £205m last year. Video become a powerful tool, moreover if you can optimize the video marketing copy.
The Times reported that digital sales of movies and TV shows are up about 22% in the first half of this year over the first half of last year ($329.4
million vs $270.3 million).
Twentieth Century Fox will release Prometheus in hi-def 3 weeks before the DVDs go on sale as an effort to boost digital downloads of its latest films.
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