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Album sales down 11% halfway through 2008 - BloggingStocks - 0 views

  • 11% decline in album sales during the first half of 2008
  • Consumers purchased 204.6 million albums between January and June
  • single track downloads growing 30% to 532.7 million units in the first half of the year over first half sales in 2007 of 417.3 million units
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  • Sony BMG dropping .5% to 24.8% and EMI dropping 1% to 9.4%.
  • single track downloads would make an obvious market to rely on
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    music industries are saying that they might have to rely on single track sales; "single track downloads growing 30% to 532.7 million units in the first half of the year over first half sales in 2007 of 417.3 million units
Jilliane Velazco

The Music Industry's Last Stand Will Be A Music Tax - 0 views

  • They haven’t yet given up on trying to charge for their music, but it’s becoming more and more clear that as long as there is a free alternative (file sharing), the price of music will have to fall towards free.
  • Music Taxes Will Kill Music Innovation
  • Music industry revenues will be a set size, regardless of the quality or type of music they release.
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  • Soon labels will complain that revenues aren’t high enough to sustain their businesses, and demand a higher tax. It will go up, but it will never go down.
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    info about music taxes and prices
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