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Originally Posted by Alan
Fact is, music sales have been going down dramatically. We have reached the lowest numbers since 1993. But since 1993 music consumption has skyrocketed because of the Internet and cheap mp3 players. If more is being consumed but less is being sold, than piracy and other illegal activities account for the difference.
Free music has been available for years (illegal though). Did it help to boost the sales of legal music? No, not a bit, but the contrary.
Alan
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Sales of CDs have dropped, that's true. But the fun fact is that most papers and articles stating this fail to state that at the same time the overall numbers for the entertainment industry (movie, concert, books... Everything)
have increased.
People's budget isn't infinite, so they prefer to spend money on concert tickets (which is actually much more interesting for the artists) than for CDs.
And this is without talking of the changes in business practices which now include much more unsold CDs than before.