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EMI Reports Declining Recorded-Music Sales.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2004

By Lucy Farndon, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 25--The music industry's war on pirates is going better, but not well enough to steady the ship at EMI.

It sank into the red and warned that it does not expect any growth in the music market this year. But it promised to "at least maintain market share" and said the piracy crackdown should help boost its earnings.

Chief executive Eric Nicoli forecasts that global recorded music sales will be flat to 4 percent weaker despite a recovery in the US, after a 5.6 percent drop last year.

Increasing revenues from digital and Internet downloads could herald a return to growth in 2005/6.

The shares sank 30 pence to 217 pence, having nearly doubled in a...

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