looser used our newssubmit to tell us that USAToday.com has an article about the current music industry, they noted the drop in sales, but give several things to blame.
One of them might be the digital revolution and the piracy, but another one might be the current music:
But industry observers see few other sure bets in the near future. Even the once-robust current-hits CD franchise, Now That's What I Call Music, is slipping, presumably because of a declining inventory of radio smashes. |
While the tsunamis of hip-hop, grunge, rap-rock and boy bands drove sales in the past decade, no strong trend is galvanizing the masses. Billboard's top 10, formerly an exclusive club for albums selling 100,000-plus copies a week, now accommodates acts selling half that.
Illicit downloading continues to chisel away at label profits, prompting lawsuits and generally ineffective countermeasures.
As for today's music offerings, well, fresh bands grow stale overnight while The Beatles continue to sell quite steadily. In this singles-minded era, fans forge only feeble bonds with momentary artists. ''Rock bands have hits, but nobody knows who they are,'' says Alan Light, a former Spin editor preparing to launch a music magazine.
''It's the Nickelback question. They have the most-played song in modern-rock radio history (How You Remind Me), and you can't pick them out of a police lineup. There's no story, and it's part of an enormous problem at the heart of the music industry. Artists are being prematurely dismissed or not signed in the first place.
Read the entire article on USAtoday.com here. The article also gives numbers on losses, are you feeling quilty ?
Source: USAtoday.com
