CD sales fell by about a third in the United States

CD sales decline partly due to the music channel service internet or music streaming. (bbc)

Music CD sales in the US fell to 31.5% in the first half of 2015, based on data from the music industry.



Only 41 million CDs were sold between January and June, down from 56.6 million in the same period the previous year.

CD sales decline was partly due to the music channel service internet or music streaming, growing 23% with a value of US $ 1.03 billion, or around Rp18 trillion.

Services Internet music channel now accounts for one third of the total revenue the music industry, which actually fell by about 0.5 to US $ 3.17 billion.

However, total income includes income -which distributors and company-recording an increase of 0.8%.

While sales of LPs, LP, continues to increase with the growing stores of independent LPs, with sales increasing to 52% over the previous year.

However LP -sebesar total sales of US $ 221 million-is still very small compared with penjualamn CDs and digital music, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, RIAA.

Chairman of the RIAA, Cary Sherman, said the figures showed business music industry is undergoing major transition. (bbc)