Mobile Music in Japan Figures for 2010
Mobile Music in Japan Figures for 2010

Mobile Music in Japan Figures for 2010

Mobile Music in Japan Figures for 2010

The Recording Industry Assoc. of Japan released their figures for 2010 indicating mobile music worth just over $920M: http://bit.ly/ktg9B7

While slightly off YoY.. still tipping nearly $1Bn annual revenues for mobile music in Japan The full .PDF – in English – is available Online Here. [Eds]

“Digital music delivery amounted to 86.0 billion yen in value and posted a decline for the first time since statistical data was first complied in 2005. Mobile digital contents, a distinctive characteristic of the Japanese market, remained dominant, while at the same time, the percentage of Internet downloads to total downloads is increasing every year. Internet downloads showed a 1% decrease on a value basis while unit production increased 6%. Specifically, albums and music videos were up 4% from the previous year. In mobile digital contents, although sales of single track downloads decreased 4% in value, its share edged up from 54.3% in the previous year to 55.3% in proportion to the overall digital music market. Mastertones continued to trend downward with a year-on-year decline of 19%, while conversely, ringback tunes posted 3% growth, reaching the same market scale as mastertones.”

Update: Interesting to compare these Japan-only, music-only (and overwhelmingly feature phone) results with report via iSuppli showing those revenues hit just under 1/2 entire 2010 global total of the App Store and over 2x that of BlackBerry App World, Android Market and Ovi.. Combined! [Eds]