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On-demand services like Spotify and We7 will generate ￡696m for the global
music industry in 2012 - a rise of 40%, new research has suggested.
點播服務像是Spotify和We7收入大增。
It means streaming music is the fastest-growing sector of the industry,
overtaking downloads, which are due to see an increase of 8.5% this year.
音樂串流超越了下載，成為成長最快的部門。
CDs and vinyl still dominate the industry, accounting for 61% of all music
sold worldwide.
But sales of physical products dropped by 12% globally, and 30% in the UK.
CD和黑膠仍占了絕大部分，但實體音樂的銷售明顯下滑。(在英國更減少了30%)
The research was carried out by industry watcher Strategy Analytics, which
noted a marked contraction in the UK music market during the first six months
of 2012.
Total spending on music will fall by ￡190m, or 16%, in the UK this year it
predicted, compared to 2.6% globally.
英國音樂市場在今年上半年明顯萎縮。
"The extent of the decline took us a bit by surprise," said Ed Barton, the
company's director of digital media.
The lack of new material from pop and rock's biggest stars could be
responsible for the drop-off, he added.
"The quality of the release slate was simply not desirable enough to drive
the levels of spending we've seen in previous years," he told the BBC.
也許上半年缺乏大牌發片也是造成此現象的原因之一。
"Maybe something will come along - even one of the compilations of songs from
the Olympics ceremonies - which will give us something to shout about going
forward."
Strategy Analytics forecast that spending on digital music - including
downloads, streaming music and mobile sales - would overtake that of physical
products like CDs in 2015, both in the UK and worldwide.
負責調查的機構預測到了2015年，無論在全球或英國數位音樂的消費將會超過實體市場-
諸如CD等等。
Music streaming services are expected to be huge drivers of the growth, said
Barton, as the boom in retail downloads is starting to "flatten out".
音樂串流服務將會是成長的主要動力；下載的部分則開始成長趨緩。
Global picture
The firm's research backs up statistics from record industry bodies around
the world.
The BPI, which represents record labels in the UK, says that in the first
three months of 2012, subscription-based music services were worth just under
￡9m, a 93% increase year-on-year.
"Free" streaming services, which use advertising to generate revenues, had
raised ￡3.4 million, an increase of 20% compared to the same period in 2011.
In Sweden, where Spotify was developed, the recording industry body GLF said
streaming music generated 252.7 million krona (￡24m) in the first six months
of the year, representing a 79% increase from 2011.
在英國及瑞典(Spotify發展起來之處)，音樂串流服務市場都有明顯的成長。
However, some musicians have complained about royalty rates on streaming
services - which pay artists a fee every time their song is played.
Cellist Zoe Keating recently released her earnings in a public Google
document, and claimed she was paid just $281.87 (￡179.70) by Spotify after
her songs were played 72,800 times by users.
Meanwhile pop artist Shannon Hurley tweeted last month that she had earned
$14.87 (￡9.48) from 4,030 plays.
Those statistics suggest that each stream of a song earns around 0.002 pence.
Spotify says it paid $180m in royalties to musicians last year and is on
track to double that figure to $360m in 2012.
Martin Mills, who founded Adele's record label XL and is now chairman of the
Beggars Group, has also defended such services, saying some of his artists
now earn "more than half" of their revenue from streaming services.
"If we didn't have digital we wouldn't have a business," he told the Daily
Telegraph last week.
XL唱片的創辦人，現在管理Beggars Group的Martin Mills也說，有些他旗下的藝人收入
現在有一半以上是來自於串流服務。
Digital downloads - music bought from Amazon, iTunes, 7Digital and their
competitors - is expected to be worth ￡194m to the UK industry in 2012.
The UK accounts for 44% of Western Europe's download market, thanks in part
to the high penetration of broadband services.
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