Music download facts for kids

A music download is the act of downloading a song from the Internet to a user's computer. This term can mean both legal downloads (by paying to download the music) and downloads of copyright material without permission or paying.

As of 2006, digital music sales are estimated to have reached about US$2 billion. Around the world in 2006, an estimated 509 million songs were purchased online.

There are many websites that let you download music. Some of these sites are iTunes, Google Play, Windows Store, and Amazon.com. As of January 2011^[update], The biggest of these stores is iTunes, which is run by Apple, and had an income of $1.1 billion in 2011.

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  The iTunes Store accessed via a mobile phone, showing Pink Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon.

See also

In Spanish: Descarga de música para niños