Germany is in Europe compared with the recorded music sales, better than France or England, surprisingly. For the Germans it was only one purchase on-year decrease of 3.3%. Particularly, the digital shopping looks encouraging. This market is booming, so that in Germany there are more providers for downloads than usual in a country. 118 million have been so taken with. Most sales, however, goes to the account of the CD. 80 percent of music revenues come from sales of physical CDs.
Unfortunately, piracy continues to overshadow the business. Although still fraglisch whether alone are to blame for the alleged Kriese the music industry, the pirates or whether the labels and Co. have cut himself on the chair. However, the numbers of illegal downloads have gone down.
