Digital Percentages Accelerating Rapidly at Majors

Major labels want their digital percentages to rise. But recent figures from top-level executives suggest that digital percentages are starting to accelerate at an uncomfortable rate.

At the Digital Music Forum in New York this week, a pair of helpful figures emerged. Ted Mico, head of Digital at Island Geffen A&M, revealed a digital revenue percentage of 40 percent. And Thomas Hesse, president of Global Digital Business & US Sales at Sony BMG, shared a global digital percentage of between 35 and 40 percent. Both figures cover online and mobile sales.

Those ratios are undoubtedly being boosted by quickly-sliding physical sales, a drop that digital is failing to cover. During a recent Warner Music Group earnings call in late November, digital percentages landed at a more modest 15 percent. And in May of last year, Universal Music Group reported a digital chunk of 15.7 percent. That figure was just 11.5 percent in November of 2006.

Report by publisher Paul Resnikoff in New York.

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"Warner Music Group Suffers Significant Profit Drop," November 29, 2007
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"Universal Music Group Reports Soft First Quarter Result," May 15, 2007
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"Universal Music Group Quarterly Revenues Dip Slightly," November 8, 2006
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