Music Industry Has First Revenue Increase Since 1999

[BIGDENNIS10UK]

So can we stop acting like album sales measure success in the music industry?

Rick Ross stays flopping.

 

[NVME]

Rick Ross stays flopping.

 

[Danie84]

That must be from the rise of EDM and IDM music being played more commercially.

 

[Free White & 21]

360 deals

 

[Cynic]

Prolly from Youtube/Spotify.

Pandora is a pretty big force too...

If only you could more nikkas into creating tech start ups instead of trying to be rappers and video vixens



:whatever:

 

[director_of_bands]

 

[bewitched]

people brought albums in '99 and artists were easily selling platinum plus albums. if anything, the execs are now trimming down on deals and royalties to artists and profiting from tour revenue to make up the loss sale revenue.

 

[DaveyDave]

There was no increase in ANY year from 2000 to 2005/6? Bullshyt!

 

[Harry B]

Who cares though, the artist are still caking and even making more from shows than they ever did.

The movie industry had 10 billion in revenue in the states, or at least 10 billion in box-office and another 20 in others.
I think it was closer to 80-90 billion ww.. And that's not accounting Bollywood etc. So obviously it's completely different worlds.

But it's still interesting that Apple makes more than the whole movie industry