Cd Sales Increase?

[internet.news]

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

[Rappy]

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

[Switeck]

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!

[Rappy]

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

[Adster]

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

[Rappy]

[Adster]

to you too

[Rappy]

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

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

[nanotek]

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

[internet.news]

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

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...

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