Legitimate music downloading enjoys dream week | CNET News.com

Legitimate music downloading enjoys dream week | CNET News.com

…a dramatic rise in the tide of authorized download sales in recent weeks suggests that changes may be afoot in the consumer’s relationship to digital music.

The important question for the music business is whether 20 million downloads represents the new baseline for digital track sales. A year ago, a 33 percent pop in download sales in the week following Christmas permanently raised the bar on weekly download volume by 2 million tracks.

The future continues to arrive.