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DATA MINE July 30, 1999 The Web Rocks Internet sales of music are expected to exceed $2.5 billion by 2003 -- or 14% of the total U.S. market, compared with just 1.1% last year. But don't expect downloading of music to knock CDs out of the box anytime soon: Downloads will represent less than 6% of total online music sales in 2003. The bulk will still be traditional media such as CDs and tapes.                   Online music sales ($ millions) % of total music sales Digital distribution revenues ($ millions) % of total online music sales 1998 152 1.1 0 0 1999 327 2.3 0.3 0.1 2000 586 3.8 3.1 0.5 2001 986 6.0 16.5 1.7 2002 1,601 9.2 52.7 3.3 2003 2,562 14.0 146.6 5.7 DATA: Jupiter Communications _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BACK TO TOP					MORE NUGGETS Japan Starts to Catch Net Fever In Japan, the numbers of ISPs, servers connected to the Web, and Japanese-language Web pages have jumped. Software Is Hardly a Hit on the Net Sales of software via the Net are growing, but not at the breakneck pace many expected. Home-Networking Growth: Two Views Experts say home networking will soar. Which technology is most likely to prevail in the market? How People around the World Connect to the Net from Home By 2002, poky analog modems will still be used by 67% of online consumers worldwide. The Mother Lode A collection of items from the Data Mine