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Digital
Japanese digital sales down in 2009
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 28 May 2010
Digital music sales in Japan dropped 3% last year in terms of units sold, which is no fun, given digital is meant to still be booming.
The value of the market stayed pretty much the same at 90.6 billion yen. The vast majority of digital music sales in Japan are via mobile, where PC-based downloads have never really taken off. That said, while mobile downloads (about 90% of market) declined, fixed-line downloads (about 10%) grew, though not enough to stop the overall decline.
