Stagnating music downloads: 85 percent of songs on the Internet are slow sellers

According to a new study by the British rights manager MCPS-PRS, 85% of all music titles for sale on the Internet are absolute slow sellers. In concrete terms, this means that out of 13 million songs offered on the web, ten million have not been downloaded even once. A sobering realization, especially for musicians who had hoped for a kind of "democratization" through the Internet.
But only the top stars are really making money: four-fifths of sales from legal music downloads are generated by just 52,000 songs. The situation is similar for albums: Out of a total of 1.23 million albums, only 173,000 were also downloaded.