New 賃貸し（する） of life for （テニスなどの）シングルス

Last updated at 15:32 23 August 2004


Sales of CD （テニスなどの）シングルス have risen for the first time in five years.

In the last two １０年間s, CD 選び出す／独身 sales have 急落するd to around 36 million a year from around 72 million in the 早期に 1980s.

The 低迷 has been 非難するd on downloads and bootlegging, while some High Street 蓄える／店s have pulled out of the market altogether.

But from April to June, sales of CD （テニスなどの）シングルス 発射 up for the first time since 1999, to 6.6 million, a 15.4% 増加する from this time last year, によれば the British Phonographic 産業 (BPI).

The turnaround is 存在 partly せいにするd to the 決定／判定勝ち（する） to introduce a new lower-定価つきの, two-跡をつける CD 選び出す／独身, in 返答 to flagging sales.

The 人気 of 跡をつけるs like Eamon's F It (I Don't Want You 支援する), the biggest-selling 選び出す／独身 of the ４半期/4分の1, which 転換d more than half a million copies, is also 存在 せいにするd to the rise.

But the 年次の value of 選び出す／独身 sales is still lower than last year, at £60,512 compared with last year's £75,062.

There is good news for the 合法的な download market, によれば the 年４回の market review.

A total of 1.5 million 合法的な downloads were sold over the last three months, に引き続いて the high-profile UK 開始する，打ち上げる of iTunes and Napster.

Sales have 増加するd from 100,000 to 500,000 a month to make two million 永久の download sales so far this year.

BPI chairman Peter Jamieson said: "Downloading ますます means that 消費者s can buy what they want when they want it.

"After years of work laying the 創立／基礎s for the 合法的な download 商売／仕事, the 産業 is seeing its dream of a celestial jukebox coming true."

The BPI said album sales were also up 3.7%.

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