Bad news for the record industry in Spain: the sale of music has dropped 30,5 percent in the first half of the year, as announced by the Association of Music Producers of Spain (promusicae).
The entity points out that this new «collapse"Indicates that the Spanish record industry continues" in free fall. " In numbers, the Spanish have spent in the first half of 2009 just over 87,7 million euros to buy music recorded on physical or digital media.
But, in the same period of the previous year, the sales figure reached 126,2 million euros. This is not from now: they are already eight consecutive years of falls in the billing volume, indicates the entity, «an even more dizzying pace than predicted by the most pessimistic calculations«.
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