Music industry orders a very small cake and a tiny glass of sherry to celebrate

It feels like I've been doing this blog for ages - mainly because I have - and not once in all the time I've been writing has the music industry ever experienced a growth in sales.

It hasn't, in fact, since 1999.

2012, then, was a transformative year.

Sure, it was only a 0.3% growth in sales, but when your business has shrunk every year this century, that's what good news looks like.