Seen that? - 2005: record year for digital music

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2005: record year for digital music Digital Music - The Future

2005 was a record year for digital music. At the same time P2P use continues to grow. Christmas was a fabulous week. 20 million Tracks were sold in the last week of the year, three times the previous year. This is compared to P2P where 250 songs are downloaded in a week. Accordingly to the article: "If the market can retain volume gain as it did last year, the numbers [...] Read More


The Sky is Falling: Is the Record Industry Ready to Face the Music? Digital Music - The Future

This article integrates and concludes a series of postings over the past week on digital music trends. Mitch Bainwol, Chairman of RIAA, recently told CNET "Digital sales are rising at a value that is larger than the decline in physical sales. We went through a pretty extraordinary time (recently). What you're seeing now is proof of that exercise. The promise of the digital marketplace is being realized. There's new optimism." And now [...] Read More


Digital music doldrums - Long-term change Digital Music - The Future

This article is one in a series examining the Pali Capital report that showed paid music download growth is slowing. Long-term change The long-term message is that the industry's problems can no longer be obscured by digital. Does this spell doom for music? It depends on your definition of music. Independent artists are thriving through the Internet and P2P. Big music though is another story. While the industry falsely blames others [...] Read More


The Sky is Falling: Is the Record Industry Ready to Face the Music? P2P File Sharing

This article integrates and concludes a series of postings over the past week on digital music trends. Mitch Bainwol, Chairman of RIAA, recently told CNET "Digital sales are rising at a value that is larger than the decline in physical sales. We went through a pretty extraordinary time (recently). What you're seeing now is proof of that exercise. The promise of the digital marketplace is being realized. There's new optimism." And now [...] Read More


Music bootstrapping gets under way BootStrapMe

A few weeks ago I posted about an exercise meant to look at how to bootstrap an online music label from a nuts and bolts perspective. The post looked at a couple of ways that music could, and probably should, be marketed in the near future taking advantage primarily of the digital tools readily available to today's musicians and included: • Uploading original tracks to sites like Musicane for downloaded sale and [...] Read More