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krj
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The Eighth Napster Item
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Jan 5 22:04 UTC 2002 |
Continuing the weblog, with occasional discussion, about news relating to
the deconstruction of the music business: with side forays, to
steal polygon's description, into "intellectual property, freedom
of expression, electronic media, corporate control, and
evolving technology."
This item is linked between the Winter Agora conference and the
Music conference. The previous version of this item (item:music3,37)
includes a list of all earlier items in this series.
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krj
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response 1 of 219:
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Jan 5 22:10 UTC 2002 |
Soundscan issues a report on 2001 CD sales:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020103/re/leisure_albums_dc_1.html
"Album Sales Not Sweet Music in 2001"
(Soundscan is the company which runs the point-of-sale counting
system used by Billboard magazine for the "official" US sales charts.)
Quotes:
> A lack of blockbuster hits, the weak economy, and the
> distraction of underground music Web sites like
> Napster (news - web sites) and other media combined to
> push U.S. album sales to 762.6 million in
> 2001 from 784.8 million in 2000, according to Soundscan, .
> It was the first decline since the company began monitoring
> album sales in 1991 and was almost
> entirely reflected in the drop in sales at the
> multi-platinum top of the charts.
> The top-10 selling albums sold 20 million less units in
> 2001 than the top 10 albums in 2000, a
> Soundscan spokeswoman said.
> The year's best selling album was Warner Bros.'
> ``Hybrid Theory'' by Los Angeles-based rock group
> Linkin Park, which sold just 4.8 million units.
> By contrast, seven albums sold more than 5 million copies each
> in 2000, with Eminem (news - web
> sites)'s smash release ``The Marshall Mathers LP''
> selling more than 9 million.
To repeat that key point: the top-selling CD in 2001 sold roughly half
as many copies as the top-selling CD in 2000.
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krj
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response 2 of 219:
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Jan 5 22:19 UTC 2002 |
Slashdot has coverage of the US imposing trade sanctions on the Ukraine
over bootleg CDs. As best as I can sort it out, the US is demanding
that Ukraine implement a serial number licensing system for all
CD blanks and all CD-manufacturing machines so that the sale of
every CD from that country can be traced.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/03/1621205&mode=thread
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mcnally
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response 3 of 219:
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Jan 6 00:30 UTC 2002 |
We're demanding that they do something there that we don't do here?
Or *do* we do that here?
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ric
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response 4 of 219:
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Jan 6 03:34 UTC 2002 |
I don't think it's necessary to do it here if CD piracy isn't a problem here.
And, to my knowledge, it's not. NOTE that I'm saying "CD Piracy" and not
"music piracy". We're talking about making illegal copies of compact discs
and selling them. That's not a real problem in the US.
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