[majordivit]

Good point. In fact, the decline in revenue for the recording industry has nothing to do with so called music pirating. It has everything to do with tons of crap that passes for music. Most discriminating music listeners are not quick to buy a CD because they heard one song 50 times on the radio or saw one music video 10 times on TV. They wan't to know that the CD contains mostly good music and not mostly filler garbage. They won't know that just by listening to one so called hit song. It's not like the old days when you could count on a band or artist releasing a record that contained mostly good songs. Today, it's just the opposite. I do not purchase a CD unless the amount of good music is greater than the amount of filler.

[brianl703]

I've noticed that in the last 10 years or so, the number of #1 songs on the top-40 chart in a given year seems to have dropped. Songs are staying at #1 for longer periods of time.

Prior to about 10 years ago, it was rare for a song to stay #1 for 3 weeks, let alone 3 months.

I wonder if this is correlated to the general decline of music into CDs filled with 12 songs of crap.