Cd Sales Increase?

CD Sales Increase?
November 17, 2003
Ciarán Tannam

Reuters are claiming today that CD sales are on the rise in the USA for the first time in over 3 years. This is in line with recent comments by the RIAA that CD sales have been on the increase in recent weeks.

The Reuters report cites Billboard Magazine as saying that sales this quarter may be greater than sales for the last quarter of 2002. 4th quarter CD sales in 2002 were regarded as a huge disappointment by the US music industry. Claiming that the music industry might beet the sales levels of last years holiday season (after up to 15% decline so far this year) can hardly be classified as a recovery.

The interesting thing is that the RIAA who help control distribution of music and issue much statistics related to music sales are talking up an increase for the first time in years. This comes at the exact same time as they are claiming success in their consumer lawsuit strategy.



anyway, filesharing remains important ;)

experts have been sayin all along that music sales will go up fileshareing or not now why is the riaa complaining :angry:

RIAA also increased their supply-chain.

You can't sell what you don't offer!

During the 'downturn' years, they had vastly reduced supply then blamed 'piracy' on the results!

:lol: well are they gonna blame the increaseing profits on fileshareing lol lets see how they explain this one

you US ppl think you have it so bad

try living in Australia 10 bucks for a single and 30 bucks for a album then you will see what expensive is

:P

:P to you too :P

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Originally posted by Adster@28 November 2003 - 13:40
:P to you too :P

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haha the jokes on u we don''t have to pay such crazy prices for cds :lol:

i remember back in the early nineties having to pay 50 german marks for a cd with 12 songs :angry:

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Originally posted by RapFan@28 November 2003 - 04:40
experts have been sayin all along that music sales will go up fileshareing or not now why is the riaa complaining :angry:

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Let me say you something:

What do you do if you can't find a song on kazaa?
I buy it and then SHARE It - haha... so that is why sales increases ;)

hehehehe... :P :) :P

cause ppl are getting hard to find stuff - some - and then share it ;)

hehe....

Soundtracks whic hare hard to find and I share:

A thousand Acres (Richard Hartley)
Set It Off [score] (Christopher Young)
Nowhere in Africa (Niki Reiser)
Peggy Sue got married

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Originally posted by Adster@28 November 2003 - 13:58
you US ppl think you have it so bad

try living in Australia 10 bucks for a single and 30 bucks for a album then you will see what expensive is

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hey, that is fuckin' expensive - if you want to

buy a cd and be happy: BUY IT DIRECTLY FROM THE ARTIST, SO
RIAA DOES NOT GET MONEY FROM YOU ;)
ONLY ARTIST ;)

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Originally posted by internet.news+29 November 2003 - 15:52--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (internet.news @ 29 November 2003 - 15:52)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-RapFan@28 November 2003 - 04:40
experts have been sayin all along that music sales will go up fileshareing or not now why is the riaa complaining&nbsp; :angry:

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Let me say you something:

What do you do if you can&#39;t find a song on kazaa?
I buy it and then SHARE It - haha... so that is why sales increases ;)

hehehehe... :P :) :P

cause ppl are getting hard to find stuff - some - and then share it ;)

hehe....

Soundtracks whic hare hard to find and I share:

A thousand Acres (Richard Hartley)
Set It Off [score] (Christopher Young)
Nowhere in Africa (Niki Reiser)
Peggy Sue got married [/b][/quote]
that might be the stupidest thing i have ever heard

:( :D I do it - ok, not other - but I buy good music if I can&#39;t it on kazaa and then share it for making it easier available on kazaa ;)

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Originally posted by internet.news@29 November 2003 - 16:13
:( :D I do it - ok, not other - but I buy good music if I can&#39;t it on kazaa and then share it for making it easier available on kazaa ;)

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well ya know im just shareing my thoughts :lol:

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:(&nbsp; :D I do it - ok, not other - but I buy good music if I can&#39;t it on kazaa and then share it for making it easier available on kazaa ;)

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well ya know im just shareing my thoughts :lol: [/b][/quote]
do you mean theory on why sales are increasing sounds stupid to you?

or the thing I am sharing hard to find stuff?

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:( :D I do it - ok, not other - but I buy good music if I can&#39;t it on kazaa and then share it for making it easier available on kazaa ;)

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well ya know im just shareing my thoughts :lol:

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do you mean theory on why sales are increasing sounds stupid to you?

or the thing I am sharing hard to find stuff? [/b][/quote]
yes that theory is pretty darn dumb

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Originally posted by internet.news+29 November 2003 - 15:52--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (internet.news &#064; 29 November 2003 - 15:52)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-RapFan@28 November 2003 - 04:40
experts have been sayin all along that music sales will go up fileshareing or not now why is the riaa complaining :angry:

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Let me say you something:

What do you do if you can&#39;t find a song on kazaa?
I buy it and then SHARE It - haha... so that is why sales increases ;)

hehehehe... :P :) :P

cause ppl are getting hard to find stuff - some - and then share it ;)

hehe....

Soundtracks whic hare hard to find and I share:

A thousand Acres (Richard Hartley)
Set It Off [score] (Christopher Young)
Nowhere in Africa (Niki Reiser)
Peggy Sue got married [/b][/quote]
NOT ME

If i cant find it on Kazaa i look on the websites, i always eventully find what im looking for, i never buy cds because as adster said the prices are BS down ere.

Because of those dam jews running the RIAA&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;

BTW internet.news its very thoughtful of u to do this, Thank You.
Its people like u that keep filesharing going. ;)

Edit: All statistics are made up anyway, i thought everyone knew this, statistics can be made to prove anything.

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Originally posted by Cotton@30 November 2003 - 08:05





Because of those dam jews running the RIAA&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;

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damn nazi

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:( :D I do it - ok, not other - but I buy good music if I can&#39;t it on kazaa and then share it for making it easier available on kazaa ;)

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well ya know im just shareing my thoughts :lol:

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do you mean theory on why sales are increasing sounds stupid to you?

or the thing I am sharing hard to find stuff?

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yes that theory is pretty darn dumb [/b][/quote]
sure I know, was just a a funny thought...

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Originally posted by RapFan+30 November 2003 - 10:12--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (RapFan @ 30 November 2003 - 10:12)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Cotton@30 November 2003 - 08:05





Because of those dam jews running the RIAA&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;

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damn nazi [/b][/quote]
yep, but if you can&#39;t find it - I cannot expect that of you -
it also have not to be 10 cds at lease 1cd or rent it from a friend
then rip it...

cause: I unfortunately have not the best financial situation at the moment,
if I would have millions to spend I would build up a huge library with
kazaa ... no, many libraries on different places in the world...

;)

so, I just can buy little hard to find cds, where music is really good
and worth to share ;)

well if i had a lot of money i would buy cds insted of downloading them but i don&#39;t :(

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Originally posted by RapFan@30 November 2003 - 17:21
well if i had a lot of money i would buy cds insted of downloading them but i don&#39;t :(

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What I would not buy, also if I had enough money, every dumbshit, only
that what I really want to listen to...

many music is not the best - doesn&#39;t means it is not not art - but it depends
also on your favorite music which one yuo would decide to buy and which not...

But I think there are a lot of ppl who only make one cd and are not
passionate singers or musicians...

do you agree?

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well if i had a lot of money i would buy cds insted of downloading them&nbsp; but i don&#39;t&nbsp; :(

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What I would not buy, also if I had enough money, every dumbshit, only
that what I really want to listen to...

many music is not the best - doesn&#39;t means it is not not art - but it depends
also on your favorite music which one yuo would decide to buy and which not...

But I think there are a lot of ppl who only make one cd and are not
passionate singers or musicians...

do you agree? [/b][/quote]
as crazy as u are well it may be true expically pop but i don&#39;t think its that big of a problem a lot of artists just don&#39;t have the talent

talent maybe true it depends on what ppl want to hear...

crazy? am I? Well I would say I am extraordinary, but I think I am not, cause
I have seen more extraordinary things ;)

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Originally posted by internet.news@30 November 2003 - 16:32
talent maybe true it depends on what ppl want to hear...

crazy? am I? Well I would say I am extraordinary, but I think I am not, cause
I have seen more extraordinary things ;)

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wow......... :o

I was just thinking about all the ppl who for e.g. make cds ,write books
and are not long time musicians or writers - ok, you can write a shortstory,
as I wrote one one time - but there are many ppl who ...

yeah, it is could in some ways something with the talent...

well people get into the business because they like music but they loose the love when the money gets involved so now u see them doing crazy things just to make a few extra bucks

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Originally posted by RapFan@1 December 2003 - 15:11
well people get into the business because they like music but they loose the love when the money gets involved so now u see them doing crazy things just to make a few extra bucks

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Yeah, the money...

difficult to say no, if somenone is showing some "extra bucks" <_<

:P that has go to be the funniest exchange of a conversation that i have seen yet anywhere :P












but i could be wrong of course :D

:P that has go to be the funniest exchange of a conversation that i have seen yet anywhere :P

could you please explain it to me? :blink:

i dont think i could explain it - its just so wierd :lol: