Music consumption is arguably at a historic high. File sharing technology would undoubtedly be welfare …-improving provided that it did not displace music sales. Yet music purchases have decayed sharply since the introduction of file sharing … a decade ago. This paper seeks to measure the effect of peer-to-peer file sharing on music sales. I use a long panel of …

This study investigated the determinants of digital music success. We identified information sources and factors that … may influence the consumption of digital music in both the short and longer term: song and artist characteristics …. Second, regarding social promotional media factors, online teaser videos affected only short-term digital music success …