It’s funny, because for a moment there I thought you said ‘download cannibalization‘…

And these are just the paid ones.  According to IFPI stats, paid downloads traditionally represent about 1/20th of broader downloads (the rest being illegally obtained). Which means there at least half-a-trillion downloads waiting for or entering a cloud-enabled reincarnation – on iTunes Match, Amazon Cloud Drive, or Google Play.

The dataset is here.

Written while listening to Fedde Le Grand. [DigitalMusicNews]