99% of the UK's singles market is now digital. The growth of this format has provided fantastic flexibility for consumers and great opportunities for the music business to innovate.
The format has its challenges, in the main because of the proliferation of unpaid for and unlicensed online digital file-sharing. Online copyright infringement cost the UK music community an estimated £200m in 2009 - this is money that should have gone to those who created the music and into developing new musical talent.
Essentially though, digital music is an exciting medium that has transformed, and will continue to transform, the music business.
What is filesharing?
Filesharing is the activity of trading digital files with other users over the internet. Users trade files by downloading (to obtain them) and uploading (to distribute them).
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Digital now accounts for over 95% of single sales and 8% of album sales. To reflect the growing consumption of legitimate digital music, the UK's official music chart was extended to include digital i
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