Posted on 01/06/2007 3:18:08 AM PST by ShadowDancer
CD Sales Keep Falling; Digital Music Bridges Gap
POSTED: 11:29 am EST January 5, 2007
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- U.S. album sales continued to decline in 2006, down nearly 5 percent from the previous year.
However, total music sales were up, thanks to a huge increase in digital sales.
The industy said 588 million albums were sold in 2006.
Digital sales increased by 65 percent over the previous year, with 582 million tracks sold. Digital album sales more than doubled, with nearly 33 million sold last year.
Overall music sales increased by more than 19 percent in 2006, but that number includes all albums, singles, music videos and digital downloads.
The top-selling album of the year was a soundtrack inspired by the Disney Channel movie "High School Musical," which sold more than 3.7 million copies.
Gosh, the same music industry that's always crying about how digital prices need to go up sells nearly a quarter of all albums via digital sales, not having to pay for all the creation, marketing, etc to get it done with so many companies out there selling their stuff for them.
(Thank you, Yahoo Music Engine, I greatly enjoy my digital music.)
Sign of the times. The music industry, like any successful industry, follows the winds of change.
When was the last time anyone bought a 45, or an LP?
Alright, I guess with this news the RIAA still should vigilantly go after Poindexter, the 13 yr. old, sitting in the basement DLing off P2P program mp3's since obviously he's such a huge threat to sales! < /sarc>
Dumasses, probably would have doubled these good numbers had they not acted like spoiled brat thugs.
"Gosh, the same music industry that's always crying about how digital prices need to go up sells nearly a quarter of all albums via digital sales, not having to pay for all the creation, marketing, etc to get it done with so many companies out there selling their stuff for them."
Ah, but there you see why the music industry fears digital sales. They contribute nothing to the process, so what's to stop the artists from cutting them out of the process?
M$ Gates is ensuring the demise of physical recording media with the Digital Rights Management protocols built into OS VISTA. VISTA will disable the driver on detection of improperly coded media.
Or maybe they, M$ & Gates are ensuring the demise of Windoze as I am off to Linux Fedora.
Either we are equal or we are not. Good people ought to be armed where they will, with wits and guns. Will someone point to a paleocon forum so that I may leave FR to the DU refugees and refusees?
Here's the link, no song though, I don't know why I thought there was.
http://www.break.com/index/album_covers.html
Just because someone downloads from a file sharing network, doesn't mean they would have necessarily gone out and bought everything they downloaded. I have discovered so many artists I never would have otherwise, die to cost consraints, thanks to LimeWire.
I can't get highspeed where I'm at so it makes me appreciate that much more what I DL, but it would be SO nice to upgrade to speed. I am literally three house up and three houses down from where Highspeed ends.
Some innovative kid will come up with an idea to deliver music and art together via digital DL in a package which is truly neat. However, there is no question this media should be less expensive and browsable so you don't end up buying CRAP you don't want. Until then people are going to go to the (For now) legal Russian sites to buy .10 songs.
Thanks.
I don't own an IPod and really don't have any interest in one. That said, I will buy a couple or few CD's a couple of times a year.
In a way, buying or ripping a one song off the internet is like buying a 45 in the 50's.
Oh, man are the memories rushing back now
After reading your post I went to Yahoo Music. I am looking for a good website to download mp3 without worring about getting spyware and viruses. It appears that the a person has to buy the downloads of songs on Yahoo Music. How much do they cost? Any info would be appreciated.
The simplest way is as follows. from the iTunes Help files:
To load songs onto iPod manually:
Connect your iPod to your computer.
When the iPod icon appears in the iTunes window (under Devices), select it.
If the Summary pane is not showing, click the Summary tab.
Select "Manually manage music." (If you have an iPod that displays video, the checkbox says "Manually manage music and video.")
Click Music (below Library, on the left side of the iTunes window) and then drag songs and playlists to your iPod.
Robert Crumb's "Cheap Thrills"
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