eMarketer’s latest report on the entertainment and music industries forecasts:

“US sales of recorded music will drop to $5.52 billion in 2013. This downward trajectory will extend a pattern that began in 2000, when physical sales started to decline after rising dramatically during the heyday of the CD.”

Digital sales will go up from 31.4% of the total sales in 2008 to 82.6% by 2013.

“Unfortunately, the sum of online and mobile will not compensate for losses in physical, but it will slow down the rate of those losses to a 2.9% drop in 2013.”