The letter quotes some numbers: Recorded music revenue is down 64% since 1999. > > Per capita spending on music is 47% lower than it was in 1973!! > > The number of professional musicians has fallen 25% since 2000. > > Of the 75,000 albums released in 2010 only 2,000 sold more than 5,000 > copies. Only 1,000 sold more than 10,000 copies. Without going into > details, 10,000 albums is about the point where independent artists begin > to go into the black on professional album production, marketing and > promotion. > > This is the first time I've heard that - everything else I've seen has suggested that big media companies have been growing just fine in the past decade. Can anyone who knows better comment? I'm sure that some of the revenue decrease is just due to the un-bundling of the album.
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Alex Leavitt <[email protected]>wrote: > Don't have much time to respond with anything lengthy at the moment; > mainly wanted to share, since it garnered so many (supportive) comments. I > think my main criticism is the characterization of the "free culture > movement" as led by corporate stakeholders (eg., Megaupload, Google, etc.). > I really felt like that came out of left field, but I've also never seen > that critique before, so I'm wondering if anyone had additional thoughts. > > > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Rich Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Interesting, Alex - would you like to share your opinions and start a >> discussion? >> >> This is the author, for those interested: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lowery >> >> R >> >> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Alex Leavitt <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> http://thetrichordist.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/letter-to-emily-white-at-npr-all-songs-considered/ >>> >>> Alex >>> >>> --- >>> >>> Alexander Leavitt >>> PhD Student >>> USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism >>> http://alexleavitt.com >>> Twitter: @alexleavitt >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > -- Alec Story Cornell University Biological Sciences, Computer Science 2012
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