全文及图片请见： http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19270362 On-demand services like Spotify and We7 will generate ￡696m for the global music industry in 2012 - a rise of 40%, new research has suggested. 点播服务像是Spotify和We7收入大增。 It means streaming music is the fastest-growing sector of the industry, overtaking downloads, which are due to see an increase of 8.5% this year. 音乐串流超越了下载，成为成长最快的部门。 CDs and vinyl still dominate the industry, accounting for 61% of all music sold worldwide. But sales of physical products dropped by 12% globally, and 30% in the UK. CD和黑胶仍占了绝大部分，但实体音乐的销售明显下滑。(在英国更减少了30%) The research was carried out by industry watcher Strategy Analytics, which noted a marked contraction in the UK music market during the first six months of 2012. Total spending on music will fall by ￡190m, or 16%, in the UK this year it predicted, compared to 2.6% globally. 英国音乐市场在今年上半年明显萎缩。 "The extent of the decline took us a bit by surprise," said Ed Barton, the company's director of digital media. The lack of new material from pop and rock's biggest stars could be responsible for the drop-off, he added. "The quality of the release slate was simply not desirable enough to drive the levels of spending we've seen in previous years," he told the BBC. 也许上半年缺乏大牌发片也是造成此现象的原因之一。 "Maybe something will come along - even one of the compilations of songs from the Olympics ceremonies - which will give us something to shout about going forward." Strategy Analytics forecast that spending on digital music - including downloads, streaming music and mobile sales - would overtake that of physical products like CDs in 2015, both in the UK and worldwide. 负责调查的机构预测到了2015年，无论在全球或英国数位音乐的消费将会超过实体市场- 诸如CD等等。 Music streaming services are expected to be huge drivers of the growth, said Barton, as the boom in retail downloads is starting to "flatten out". 音乐串流服务将会是成长的主要动力；下载的部分则开始成长趋缓。 Global picture The firm's research backs up statistics from record industry bodies around the world. The BPI, which represents record labels in the UK, says that in the first three months of 2012, subscription-based music services were worth just under ￡9m, a 93% increase year-on-year. "Free" streaming services, which use advertising to generate revenues, had raised ￡3.4 million, an increase of 20% compared to the same period in 2011. In Sweden, where Spotify was developed, the recording industry body GLF said streaming music generated 252.7 million krona (￡24m) in the first six months of the year, representing a 79% increase from 2011. 在英国及瑞典(Spotify发展起来之处)，音乐串流服务市场都有明显的成长。 However, some musicians have complained about royalty rates on streaming services - which pay artists a fee every time their song is played. Cellist Zoe Keating recently released her earnings in a public Google document, and claimed she was paid just $281.87 (￡179.70) by Spotify after her songs were played 72,800 times by users. Meanwhile pop artist Shannon Hurley tweeted last month that she had earned $14.87 (￡9.48) from 4,030 plays. Those statistics suggest that each stream of a song earns around 0.002 pence. Spotify says it paid $180m in royalties to musicians last year and is on track to double that figure to $360m in 2012. Martin Mills, who founded Adele's record label XL and is now chairman of the Beggars Group, has also defended such services, saying some of his artists now earn "more than half" of their revenue from streaming services. "If we didn't have digital we wouldn't have a business," he told the Daily Telegraph last week. XL唱片的创办人，现在管理Beggars Group的Martin Mills也说，有些他旗下的艺人收入 现在有一半以上是来自於串流服务。 Digital downloads - music bought from Amazon, iTunes, 7Digital and their competitors - is expected to be worth ￡194m to the UK industry in 2012. The UK accounts for 44% of Western Europe's download market, thanks in part to the high penetration of broadband services. --

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