Guardian Article
Summary
Mumford and the sons have become the fastest selling album of the year within the UK and US. This is the bands second album and has sold 159,000 copies in the first week and in the US 600,000 copies. it has also smashed spotify records with having round 8 million listens, statistics showing one in every
10th spotify (paying a certain amount of money monthly and getting unlimited music streaming) user listen to the babel track. with spotify having 15 million users. However acts like coldplay have withheld their albums from spotify as people criticised for giving labels low royalty payments compared to album sales. Glassnote records says " spotify is retraining people to buy music through streaming services"
Opinion
its a big point that goes against people who say digital sales has totally killed CD sales from stores. As from this article it shows people still do purchase albums from stores and also people are using "legal" ways to download their music for example spotify. Also it shows spotify could be the future of music downloading as we might move on from single downloads to paying monthly and getting unlimited music streams.
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