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Digital Music Accounts For Growing Piece Of Global Market

• The digital music market has more than tripled in a year
• Sales totaled $790 million in the first half of this year, equivalent to 6 percent of industry sales
• That compared to $220 million in the same period last year
• Recorded music sales fell 1.9 percent to a retail value of $13.2 billion in the first half of this year, compared with $13.4 billion in the same period last year
• The digital boom, which now exceeds the value of the global singles market, was largely driven by sales in the top five markets--the United States, Britain, Japan, Germany, and France
• Sales of physical formats fell 6.3 percent by value in the period to $12.4 billion, it said
• Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes online music store accounts for 82 percent of legal downloads in the United States.
• The company has sold more than 500 million songs online
  
• And about 22 million iPod digital music players