VISITS to music downloading websites saw a 50 per cent rise on Christmas Day as hundreds of thousands of people began loading songs on to the iPods they received as presents.
According to figures from Hitwise, the online intelligence company, visits to music download sites, such as Apple's iTunes Music Store, rose by 50 per cent between December 24 and 25.
Hitwise also found that visits to download sites were 15 per cent higher than last Christmas.
Even before the Christmas increase, the BPI, the UK record companies' trade association, said download sales had topped 23 million this year, five times the 4.7 million sold in 2004.
Weekly downloads already exceed 650,000 and may pass the one million mark for the first time this holiday season.
The figures reflect the growing popularity of MP3 music players such as the iPod, which were among the most popular Christmas gift items this year.
Isn't this always the way. The music companies whine and moan about the CD's they're not selling, but we don't hear them rejoicing about this.
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