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Originally Posted by sirmaru
It shows that sales of music including digital media has declined from 14.6 billion dollars in 1999 to 8.5 billion in 2008.
I couldn't find any numbers after 2008.
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I suggest to you that any drop in music sales in the last couple of decades is the effect of the internet and videogames on music sales.
As teenagers, we used to spend most of our disposable income on music, share music (yes, there was plenty of pirating), spend hours trying to catch that radio song on tape, spend much of our free time listening to music and talking about music and bands.
Most preteens and teenagers now don't do that. It's all videogames, all the time. Popular music is a side interest at best.