In a statement on its website, Amazon confirmed the news. Slowly backing away from the medium.Īmazon Music users had first noticed the company’s plans to roll back support for MP3 imports. Now, underscoring the death of MP3 downloads, Amazon Music has quietly scrapped MP3 imports.
The current timetable shows a complete termination of the medium in 2019, shortly after the 2018 Christmas season. In a story tipped to DMN, the Cupertino-based company had started plans to terminate MP3s in 2016. Then, last week, Digital Music News found that Apple would phase out digitals downloads from the iTunes Store. Nothing to sneeze at, but a far cry from the billion-dollar gains of yesteryear. Over the past four quarters, in a sign that music fans have started moving away from the medium, MP3 downloads only brought in $349 million collectively for the majors. In the same period last year, Sony Music generated $150.7 million from digital downloads. The music label only brought in $117.4 million from the format. In its Q1 2017 report released last August, Sony Music reported a 22.1% drop in digital downloads.
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