Relevance of itunes in Europe

[Brooklin 21]

iTunes is irrelevant in Europe, as far as the general public is concerned. In fact, Pop girls stans are the only ones who buy song there.

 

UK'ers, is iTunes relevant in your country, like it is in the USA, for example?

[VforVendetta 2,024]

In Greece ITunes are 100% irrelevant. What makes the hits here is radio, the TV, the clubs and the cafeterias.

[bornthisway51 16]

UK'ers, is iTunes relevant in your country, like it is in the USA, for example?

 

Very; you can pretty much predict the charts (sales only) based on iTunes' sales alone.

[craig 680]

An example from Italy:

Kylie's duet with Laura Pausini is #1 on the Italian weekly sales chart. But I hear it took just 2700 itunes sales to do it.
http://www.fimi.it/
 

[Luc 4,772]

An example from Italy:

Kylie's duet with Laura Pausini is #1 on the Italian weekly sales chart. But I hear it took just 2700 itunes sales to do it.

http://www.fimi.it/

 

Here in Holland (the #10 music market in the world) only about 300-500 sales are needed for a song to go #1 on iTunes: Spotify is used much more here and buying singles is very uncommon. You either download a single illegally, download an album illegally or buy an album physical. Let me just show some Wikipedia statistics:

 

In Holland, buying music Digitally makes up for 27% of the total revenue from music. And buying singles out of my head makes up for under 25% of the total revenue/sales.