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DVD music sales boom as CD sales fall.

Whilst worldwide sales of recorded music fell by 10.9 per cent in value and by 10.7 per cent in units in first half 2003, DVD music sales surged, according to figures published by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Interim sales of all audio and music video formats reached $12.7bn, compared with $14.2bn in the same

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