UK Digital Music at a Glance

189,000,000 sales of singles in 2012, 99.6% of which were digital
22,000,000 monthly UK audience for YouTube
938,000,000 digital tracks sold to date in the UK by December 2012
27.7% of Brits who purchase downloads or stream content legally
114,000,000 digital albums sold to date in UK by December 2012
3,700,000,000 of audio streams in the UK 2012
71 legal digital music services in the UK
£49,000,000 of streaming market to British record labels
51% of UK record label revenues accounted for by digital sales
68% of people who believe search engines should make it harder to find illegal music websites
20,000,000 tracks available for licence to legal digital services
80% of people who are aware of streaming services
20% of Spotify's global users who are paying subscribers
345,000,000 of tracks downloaded using BitTorrent between January and June 2012
93% satisfaction rate with music streaming services
44,000,000 forecasted 4G subscribers by 2016
1,000,000,000+ of playlists created on Spotify
18,000,000 tablet owners by 2016
62,000,000 of music tracks that have been shared on Facebook
239,000,000 of tracks downloaded legally between January and June 2012
54% of music fans who prefer to own downloaded music
50,900,000 cars with streaming facilities to be sold every year by 2017
4,000,000 of people regularly engaging in file sharing in the UK

14.5% of Brits using P2P networks to file share music