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According to figures released by the German lobby group Bitkom, 11.71 million music files were downloaded for a fee in the first two quarters of 2006.
Overall sales are posted at 21.2 million euros, with the market growing by 36 percent over the first two quarters of 2005. Music sales on the Internet thus reached record levels in Germany.
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Men are downloading more music from the Internet than women (64-36%). Germans pay an average of 1.79 euros per download; a year ago, the average was 1.89 euros. In the calculations of Bitkom/GfK Panel, an album containing multiple songs was counted as a single download.

In 2004, almost 8.5 million downloads were registered, with sales totaling 14.6 million euros.
In 2005, the figures had increased to 19.57 million downloads and 35.8 million euros.

(Source: Heise.de)

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