Canada No Pirate Nation: Global Leader In Music Download Sales

An anonymous reader writes "The IFPI, the global recording industry association, recently released its Recording Industry in Numbers 2012, which provides detailed sales data from countries around the world. While CRIA talks about 'rebuilding the marketplace,' the industry's own data indicates that Canada already stands among the global leaders in digital music sales. Michael Geist digs into the data and finds that Canadians purchased more single track downloads than Germany or Japan, and more than double the sales in France, despite the fact that each of those countries has far larger populations. In fact, Canadian sales were larger than all the sales from Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden combined. Not only is the Canadian digital market far larger than virtually every European market, it continues to grow faster than the U.S. digital music market as well. In fact, the Canadian digital music market has grown faster than the U.S. market for the past six consecutive years."

It's Our Penance

[mrclisdue]

As a Canadian, I think I can speak for the country when I say that the reason we're a global leader in music download sales is that we feel so damn guilty for pirating all that stuff that we make amends by buying it.

Plus, how else can we push Justin Bieber to the top? Don't tell me non-canucks actually purchase his stuff, too?

We're just so damn polite. Sorry for the cuss words.

cheers,

cheers,

Re:Global leader in music sales...

[Vanderhoth]

Peter Griffin is a fictional character, you can't believe anything he says. Scrooge McDuck makes it very clear that money, especially the coin variety, it great for swimming in.