various stats from 2006

According to eMarketer: While the total number of US music consumers has more than doubled to 96 million in 2006 from 45 million in 1980, annual per capita music expenditures have dropped drastically to $120 in 2006, from $198 in 1980.2006 - MySpace is home to 2.2 million bands, 8,000 comedians, thousands of filmmakers

Other interesting stats from 2006

2006 - MySpace has more than 100,000,000 unique profiles

2006 - The iTunes store features 3.5 million songs

2006 - iTunes is selling 5 million songs per day, or 58 songs per second

2006 - 55% of the music bought through iTunes is sold as individual tracks

2006 - Americans spent 500 million on ringtones last year

2006 - 9.3 million people share music files each month

2006 - One billion tracks a month are traded worldwide on illegal file share networks

2006 - 800 music stores closed in 2006

2006 - over 1 billion people speak English