500k ‘legal’ UK downloads
p2pnet.net News:- Five-hundred-thousand people have paid for ‘legal’ music from sites supplied and supported by the Big Five labels in the UK, says the Official UK Chart Company, a new music industry organization.
A joint venture between the BPI (British Phonographic Industry) and the British Association of Record Dealers, the ‘OCC’ is "in the final test stages ahead of the launch of the Official UK Download Chart, expected to be later this summer".
The BPI is Big Music’s UK enforcement and marketing organization.
BPI chairman Peter Jamieson says, "With 500,000 legal downloads sold already this year, we have hit yet another milestone in the development of this exciting new market for music.
"Investors are showing confidence in the future of music and putting their money into new download stores, and music consumers are voting with their wallets and buying in their hundreds of thousands. This is shaping up to be a breakthrough year for the music industry."
