Digital music track sales in the U.S. in 2012, by recording decade

Published by Statista Research Department, Jan 4, 2013
The statistic above presents data on digital music sales in the United States, broken down by recording decade. In 2011, Americans downloaded 54 million tracks from the 1980s and 438 million tracks from the 2000s.

Digital music track sales in the United States in 2012, by recording decade* (in millions)

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January 2013

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United States

Survey time period

January 2, 2012 to December 30, 2012

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* Digital tracks sales of songs recorded during the specified decade.

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