D J <(Address removed)> said:
Bob Licious <(Address removed)> said:
s M i l e <(Address removed)> said:
Is the decline in sales of recorded music more to do with content than
format?I would guess content isn't the problem, but who knows. It would be
interesting to see units-sold rather than revenue.It's a pretty chart but are they saying vinyl was more or less dead by 1989?
Regardless of all that, would love to see the unit sales flooding in from the US iTunes music store right now.UK situation is along similar lines though by the looks of it
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/digital-music-sales-fail-to-offset-piracy-losses-2177091.htmlBasically I'm still a bit peeved about the amount of money I ploughed into the music industry for sub-standard B sides and album tracks during the 90s!
DJ
This is the first year out of the last 30 that I haven't bought vinyl, but it is only February...
I can't bring myself to pay for digital downloads - I require something tangible when I part with cash
However I still purchase a lot of music in the form of CD compilations. For me that's where value-for-money is maximised; per track it's cheaper than digital downloads, I'm not paying cash to Apple Corp. when I'd rather it went to smaller labels, distributers and, most of all, the artists themselves
In terms of the music industry itself - live show revenues are astronomical; that chart really needed and overlay of global concert revenues, but since it's the RIAA's data and they need to keep up the 'we have to sue the kiddies' pretense, I wouldn't expect them to be honest with the presentation of statistics.
