What Killed the Music Industry???
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JoseLuisGotcha
Aka Allhiphopsux
Limewire changed the game! It was never the same after that 
I sacrificed my only begotten laptop so that my house party guests could have ever lasting life
I sacrificed my only begotten laptop so that my house party guests could have ever lasting life
Kingshango
Veteran
It depends on what you consider "Killed"
Here Comes the Pain
Superstar
A lot of gimmick get rich quick schemed 15 minutes of fame rappers.
this, a lot of people get quality of music confused with the success of the music industry
if anything quality of music is lower now than before because the barrier for entry is so much lower with the internet being what it is now, artists and their sounds dont have to be carefully crafted to perfection and anybody can record anything and have it potentially blow up
all of this stuff is making money, the industry is more profitable than ever in all honesty
Sbp
Superstar
Labels
Define dead, so I can make sure I accurately explain why youre all wrong.
What are we talkin here? Quality? Sales? Diversity amongst artists? Time on top? Innovation?
Explain it all, sensei
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they still printing money fukk are you saying¿*
Wear My Dawg's Hat
Superstar
CDs killed the music business.
They provided a false sense of profitability to the industry during the late 80s
and 1990s.
Exploding revenue during that period was heavily based on fans
re-purchasing their favorite Beatles, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin
albums in a new, clear-sounding digital format.
CDs were overpriced. Vinyl albums that sold for $7.98 in 1983 were $15.98 as CDs in 1993.
The CDs provided digitization of everyone's music, making it easy to upload song files for free to
emerging technologies in the late 90s like Napster. That killed the traditional consumer music purchasing
process of a buyer paying cash money at stores for their favorite music. Radio stations played what was selling at stores. Concert and club promoters booked artists who were selling at stores and playing heavily on the radio.
They provided a false sense of profitability to the industry during the late 80s
and 1990s.
Exploding revenue during that period was heavily based on fans
re-purchasing their favorite Beatles, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin
albums in a new, clear-sounding digital format.
CDs were overpriced. Vinyl albums that sold for $7.98 in 1983 were $15.98 as CDs in 1993.
The CDs provided digitization of everyone's music, making it easy to upload song files for free to
emerging technologies in the late 90s like Napster. That killed the traditional consumer music purchasing
process of a buyer paying cash money at stores for their favorite music. Radio stations played what was selling at stores. Concert and club promoters booked artists who were selling at stores and playing heavily on the radio.
ndthentherewasx
El Capitan
Progress.
Miss the days of tapes and cdz
Miss the days of tapes and cdz
Wear My Dawg's Hat
Superstar
The late 1990s were the peak of global recorded sales revenue, nearing $30 billion dollars right before Napster in 1999. As of this year, global revenue is near $13 billion dollars.
"In 2017 revenues from recorded music in the United States increased 16.5% at estimated retail value to $8.7 billion, continuing the growth from the previous year. At wholesale, revenues grew 12.6% to $5.9 billion. Similar to 2016, these increases came primarily from growth in paid music subscriptions to services like Spotify, Amazon, Tidal, AppleMusic, Pandora and others, which grew by more than 50%. This is the first time since 1999 that U.S. music revenues grew materially for two years in a row. At $8.7 billion, the industry has taken a decade to return to the same overall revenue level as 2008, and is still 40% below peak levels as the growth from streaming has been offset by continued declines in revenues from both physical and digital unit based sales."
RIAA Releases 2017 Year-End Music Industry Revenue Report - RIAA
"In 2017 revenues from recorded music in the United States increased 16.5% at estimated retail value to $8.7 billion, continuing the growth from the previous year. At wholesale, revenues grew 12.6% to $5.9 billion. Similar to 2016, these increases came primarily from growth in paid music subscriptions to services like Spotify, Amazon, Tidal, AppleMusic, Pandora and others, which grew by more than 50%. This is the first time since 1999 that U.S. music revenues grew materially for two years in a row. At $8.7 billion, the industry has taken a decade to return to the same overall revenue level as 2008, and is still 40% below peak levels as the growth from streaming has been offset by continued declines in revenues from both physical and digital unit based sales."
RIAA Releases 2017 Year-End Music Industry Revenue Report - RIAA
eh....sean parker was gonna roll out Napster no matter what, he was never really interested in cutting a deal w/the music business and i'm sure the feeling was mutual
what i'm talking about is this here - it's from the book THE SONG MACHINE:
In 2000, Hilary Rosen the head of the RIAA sat all the top music executives down in a hotel to show then Napster.
She then set up a computer, asked some of them "what's your latest single?"
every song these label heads named, popped up in Napster - it was the first time they'd ever seen or heard of it.
One of the execs specifically asked for BYE BYE BYE by nsync it was only out for a few weeks,
the CD wasn't even out and it was on there
here's the link to the book - click it and type "Hilary Rosen" in the search on the far left side of the page
The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
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The late 1990s were the peak of global recorded sales revenue, nearing $30 billion dollars right before Napster in 1999. As of this year, global revenue is near $13 billion dollars.
"In 2017 revenues from recorded music in the United States increased 16.5% at estimated retail value to $8.7 billion, continuing the growth from the previous year. At wholesale, revenues grew 12.6% to $5.9 billion. Similar to 2016, these increases came primarily from growth in paid music subscriptions to services like Spotify, Amazon, Tidal, AppleMusic, Pandora and others, which grew by more than 50%. This is the first time since 1999 that U.S. music revenues grew materially for two years in a row. At $8.7 billion, the industry has taken a decade to return to the same overall revenue level as 2008, and is still 40% below peak levels as the growth from streaming has been offset by continued declines in revenues from both physical and digital unit based sales."
RIAA Releases 2017 Year-End Music Industry Revenue Report - RIAA
call me crazy, but I don't believe their streaming numbers...I think they're all doing what TIDAL was caught doing
all of us that have streaming service accounts, they use our accounts and shadow stream certain artists songs to boost their sales and revenue
I also believe they'll be caught...the industry put all of their eggs in the streaming basket, and when that fails, there will be literally nothing else
there will always be concerts though
Brolic Scholar
Licensed Text Technician
At the peak of the music game, the music companies and their parent corporations had people fooled into thinking it costs more to produce CDs. It didn’t. It was cheaper than making a cassette... BUT, the cost of a CD was damn near $20. This is when going gold or platinum wasn’t as difficult as it is now.
Imagine how much record companies were making off of platinum artists. They made so much money that artists got to keep their show money. At this point in time, what can record companies sell? Subscription money ain’t shyt. Money from commercials on streaming services isn’t fukking with physical copy sales either.
Record companies got greedy and priced listeners out and listeners, in turn, started downloading music and burning CDs. Once the iPod arrived, it was a wrap.
Imagine how much record companies were making off of platinum artists. They made so much money that artists got to keep their show money. At this point in time, what can record companies sell? Subscription money ain’t shyt. Money from commercials on streaming services isn’t fukking with physical copy sales either.
Record companies got greedy and priced listeners out and listeners, in turn, started downloading music and burning CDs. Once the iPod arrived, it was a wrap.