o que a net fez à (indústria da) música

«(...) The music industry has been transformed since Berry's teenage years. While total album sales continue to plummet - down 15 percent last year from 2006, according to Nielsen SoundScan - music is more ubiquitous than ever, thanks to digital technology.Sales of digital-music tracks from services like iTunes and Amazon.com continue to be a bright spot for the record industry. Last year, 844.2 million tracks were purchased, up 45 percent from 2006, according to Nielsen SoundScan. (...) to reach casual fans, several Internet sites have developed easy, typically free ways for music lovers to cut through the clutter: music search engines, music-streaming sites and music-based social networks. Some musical artists are using these sites to connect with their fans on a more personal level, too.» fonte: Internet making it easy for music fans to stay tuned in By Joseph De Avila , The Wall Street Journal Monday, March 10, 2008

«the results from 2007 confirm what EMI's focus group showed: that the record industry's main product, the CD, which in 2006 accounted for over 80% of total global sales, is rapidly fading away. In America, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the volume of physical albums sold dropped by 19% in 2007 from the year before—faster than anyone had expected. For the first half of 2007, sales of music on CD and other physical formats fell by 6% in Britain, by 9% in Japan, France and Spain, by 12% in Italy, 14% in Australia and 21% in Canada. (Sales were flat in Germany.) Paid digital downloads grew rapidly, but did not begin to make up for the loss of revenue from CDs. More worryingly for the industry, the growth of digital downloads appears to be slowing.»

fonte: From major to minor Jan 10th 2008 From The Economist print edition