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Number of Paying Downloaders Nearly Triples in 2003
An estimated 10 million Americans have paid to download
Quarterly digital music study, TEMPO: Keeping Pace with Digital Music Behavior, also reveals that majority of fee-based downloads are burned to CD
March 30, 2004
Contact Matt Kleinschmit at 312.665.0600
Category Media, Communications and Technology
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Tempo
Location United States
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New York, NY — As the music industry continues efforts to integrate the growing popularity of digital music downloading with traditional retail distribution, 2003 witnessed a veritable explosion of fee-based digital music service introductions and a nearly three-fold increase in paid downloading due to experimentation among American downloaders, according to global market research organization Ipsos Insight. New findings from TEMPO, Ipsos Insight’s quarterly tracker of American digital music behaviors, reveal that in December 2003 as many as 22% of American downloaders aged 12 and older had paid a fee to download digital music off of the Internet. This translates into an estimated 10 million experienced fee-based downloaders within the current U.S. population (according to 2000 U.S. Census figures).
