Taking a Look at the Impact of Streaming Music Services

This comes from Music Industry Blog:

• Streaming tends to get a foothold quicker in territories where the physical market is already in marked decline.  Once it gets established the physical market decline accelerates.  It is not possible yet to definitively conclude whether this is cause or effect.
• Strong streaming markets tend to experience significantly stronger digital growth rates than strong download markets.
• Strong physical markets are more likely to have downloads dominate their digital markets.

There’s more–and it’s very interesting.