Online music sales to go up 7%: report

But sales of CDs, hurt by piracy as well as paid-for online distribution, will continue to decline faster than can be made up for by digital sales, as the music industry struggles to adapt to consumers' changing behaviour, Gartner predicted. 

By 2015, Gartner forecasts online music spending will rise to $7.7 billion (P55.1 billion) from $5.9 billion (P42.2 billion) in 2010.  In the same period, consumer spending on CDs and other physical music forms is seen falling to about $10 billion (P71.6 billion) from $15 billion (P107.3 billion).