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File Sharing Increases CD Sales
Andrew writes "ARIA have released figures that show for 2003, album sales have reached an all time high. In fact, according to Peter Martin, who recently went on Australian radio, before file sharing and CD burning they were selling 10 million less. Total unit sales were also at an all time high at 65.6 million. CD single sales declined 1.9 million over the year, but as Peter said file downloading is doing a better job. Should help Kazaa's legal problems."
No, there is enough evidence at Janis Ians website to support this, and Baen Books have been making the same claim with regard to their free library, see janisian.com and Baen Free Library for more info.
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Slackware - because apt is for the lazy.
Not really album sales for 2003 where an all time record high in the United Kingdom. Though again single sales slumped yet again. The reason for this is obvious though, they are way to expensive to bother with. Three singles would more than cover the cost of an album. I remember when it was more like seven or eight singles to the price of an album.
It only covers albums sold in Australia. The stats don't include the sales of Australian artists in overseas markets.
Why CD's are slipping down the charts
From the article: "Have you noticed that the singles and albums charts increasingly seem to bear almost no relation?"
and
"The music industry is being sustained by middle-aged men who can't use the internet."
I think there's a lot of truth there.
It actually refers to albums that have left the warehouses, not actually cash money sales.
An album could technically go platinum in its first week if they do a run at the factory of 50,000 (or whatever) and put them straight on a truck.