Japan: Mobile Makes Up 90% of Digital Music Sales

Who needs iTunes or Rhapsody? In Japan it’s all about downloading music right to a cell phone. New figures from the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ), that country’s answer to the RIAA, mobile downloads accounted for more than 90% of digital music sales last year, according to a MocoNews report.

Full-track downloads grew more than any other form of mobile music, up 91% over 2006, the article says, citing Japan’s Music Media Watch newsletter.

Overall, music sales in Japan reached $4.66

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