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Title: 30 Years Of Music Industry Change
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 17, 2011, 03:03:10 pm

(http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/research/30years.gif) (http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/081611thirty)

Title: Re: 30 Years Of Music Industry Change
Post by: Cock Van Der Palm on August 17, 2011, 04:13:19 pm

Why is that sort of depressing to me?

Title: Re: 30 Years Of Music Industry Change
Post by: hutch on August 17, 2011, 04:31:24 pm

its DEVOlution baby!

Title: Re: 30 Years Of Music Industry Change
Post by: sweetcell on August 17, 2011, 05:06:30 pm

2002:
95.5% of music sold was on CD. 
= wow.

2010:
download album: 12.1%
download single: 20%
= ugh.

would have been interesting if they had scaled the overall pie chart to reflect the total value of music sales.  pie would have gotten a lot smaller between early 2000's and present.

Title: Re: 30 Years Of Music Industry Change
Post by: hutch on August 17, 2011, 05:47:44 pm

i'm reading greg kot's ripped right now... all about this...

may be a bit dated since it came out two years ago

i reserve judgment

Title: Re: 30 Years Of Music Industry Change
Post by: Thousand Made-Up Loves on August 17, 2011, 05:51:56 pm

Quote from: hutch on August 17, 2011, 04:31:24 pm

its DEVOlution baby!

Great fukkin' video.

Title: Re: 30 Years Of Music Industry Change
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 17, 2011, 06:44:33 pm

it moves too fast . . . i want to learn, but i'm getting a headache seizure.

Title: Re: 30 Years Of Music Industry Change
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 17, 2011, 07:05:35 pm

Quote from: walkonby on August 17, 2011, 06:44:33 pm

it moves too fast . . . i want to learn, but i'm getting a headache seizure.

Click on it to go to its source. There are thumbnail links to the individual frames below the big gif.

Title: Re: 30 Years Of Music Industry Change
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 17, 2011, 07:10:32 pm

Quote from: sweetcell on August 17, 2011, 05:06:30 pm

2002:
95.5% of music sold was on CD. 
= wow.

2010:
download album: 12.1%
download single: 20%
= ugh.

would have been interesting if they had scaled the overall pie chart to reflect the total value of music sales.  pie would have gotten a lot smaller between early 2000's and present.

The last several frames are an abstract representation of the implosion of brick & mortar.

Title: Re: 30 Years Of Music Industry Change
Post by: Justin Tonation on August 17, 2011, 07:14:41 pm

(http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/uploads/f0/e4/f0e49e19c1601274ed250a74d99d3f58/1983.gif)
(http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/uploads/bd/ab/bdabd6046ebaeeb449c76f7a12f94315/1984.gif)

It wasn't the CD that nearly killed vinyl. Instead, it was the Walkman.

Title: Re: 30 Years Of Music Industry Change
Post by: Brian_Wallace on August 18, 2011, 10:34:08 am

Another current example is that Katy Perry album.  That album now has five number one singles off of it.  FIVE!  No one's ever had more.  Wacko Jacko had 5 off of "Bad."  For the last year those songs have been EVERYWHERE.  And yet the total sales from the album is only 1.7 million.  Doesn't that have to piss off the music industry?  Ten years ago "Teenage Dream" would have sold 10 million, easy.  Some albums that didn't have ANY hits on it sold that amount in a couple of weeks.  Didn't Pearl Jam sell a million + of 'Vs.' in a week?

Tangentially, I read somewhere that now a downloadable track counts as an album sale in amounts of 10.  Is that true?  Like if Lady Gaga sells a million downloads of "You and I" (1,000,000/10 = 100,000) she'll get credit for selling 100,000 copies of the album it came from ("Born This Way?")

Brian

Title: Re: 30 Years Of Music Industry Change
Post by: i am gay and i like cats on August 18, 2011, 10:56:02 am

i like that brian uses lady gaga in his examples.  raise your paws.