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Re:20 years of the iPod by paulcole on Sunday October 24, 2021 @12:31PM (#28979447)
> digital purchases were never that big a chunk of the market

There was a 4-year stretch where paid downloads were the leading source of revenue for the music industry.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billrosenblatt/2018/05/07/the-s...

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Re:20 years of the iPod by ghaff on Sunday October 24, 2021 @01:00PM (#28979753)
I guess it depends on the source of the numbers. Eyeballing this chart [1] it doesn't look as if downloads were ever the majority. (In any case, they weren't for long.)

[1] https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/4713/global-recorded-musi...

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