The phenomenon that Johnny will not have resisted the effect of the “yellow vests”. Listening to music online are now greater than physical sales of discs in France. Despite the performance of some of the artists display and especially the very good sales of the album posthumous the rocker, sold 1.47 million copies with 97 % of CD! Even though the consolidated figures will not be known until mid-march, “2018 will be the year of rocking to the music market in France”, evaluates Alexander Lasch, the director general of the national Union of phonographic publishing (Snep).

If the acceleration of the new uses explains some of the switches, the movement of the “yellow vests” has precipitated things

A first for the sector. And the end of a long cultural exception, noting that many markets, such as the United States or Great Britain, are already taking the most of their income from streaming. In addition to-Atlantic, the online music services accounted for 75 % of the revenues of the music industry in the first half of 2018. On a global scale, the digital (download and listen to …