HOW we buy música has changed inexorably. That is the conclusion of a newly published reportar on the world’s digital música market.
According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, outlets such as Apple’s iTunes store accounted for 27 per cent of the world’s recorded música sales last year. The bestselling track online was Poker Face por Lady Gaga, selling 9.8 million units.
Digital sales totalled $4.6 billion, a 12 per cent rise since 2008. Online sales are slowly starting to offset the decline in sales at ”bricks and mortar” record shops.
Nick O’Byrne, general manager of the Australian Independent Record Labels Association, says it is a superficial milestone.
”It’s a hollow victory for record labels after enduring years of declining sales,” he said. ”Digital música still only accounts for 8 per cent of our total album sales, which pales into insignificance siguiente to the amount of content illegally shared and downloaded.”
Sabiene Heindl, general manager of the música Industry Piracy Investigations organisation, dicho inroads had been made in countries with aggressive legislation against illegal downloading.
”In South Korea, for instance, the market has rallied back,” she said.
Mr O’Byrne dicho increased distribution to fans opened the door to other revenue streams such as merchandise sales and higher attendance at gigs.
”For fledgling artists it’s a case of being pragmatic and moving with the times, but larger labels are still struggling to come to terms with decreasing revenues from physical sales,” he said.
”What’s often forgotten is there are still thousands of people with families, mortgages and rent who are losing jobs within the música industry as a direct result of piracy.”
According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, outlets such as Apple’s iTunes store accounted for 27 per cent of the world’s recorded música sales last year. The bestselling track online was Poker Face por Lady Gaga, selling 9.8 million units.
Digital sales totalled $4.6 billion, a 12 per cent rise since 2008. Online sales are slowly starting to offset the decline in sales at ”bricks and mortar” record shops.
Nick O’Byrne, general manager of the Australian Independent Record Labels Association, says it is a superficial milestone.
”It’s a hollow victory for record labels after enduring years of declining sales,” he said. ”Digital música still only accounts for 8 per cent of our total album sales, which pales into insignificance siguiente to the amount of content illegally shared and downloaded.”
Sabiene Heindl, general manager of the música Industry Piracy Investigations organisation, dicho inroads had been made in countries with aggressive legislation against illegal downloading.
”In South Korea, for instance, the market has rallied back,” she said.
Mr O’Byrne dicho increased distribution to fans opened the door to other revenue streams such as merchandise sales and higher attendance at gigs.
”For fledgling artists it’s a case of being pragmatic and moving with the times, but larger labels are still struggling to come to terms with decreasing revenues from physical sales,” he said.
”What’s often forgotten is there are still thousands of people with families, mortgages and rent who are losing jobs within the música industry as a direct result of piracy.”
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Ga ga!
Not since madonna squeezed into her conical corset has the música world produced such an experimental fashion icon. With the emphasis being on 'mental'
Everything about Lady GaGa is big - hair, personality, sunglasses and, yes, pants. It's no wonder Just Dance became an instant anthem, followed por the equally catchy Poker Face and Paparazzi.
Super-talanted
GaGa - aka Stefani Germanotta was playing the paino por ear from the age of four and writes all her own songs. This año she has sold 20 million digital singles!
And our March 15 fabulous magazine cover estrella has earned the sello of approval from Madge, who says GaGa ''has that 'it' factor '.
We can't wait to see what she's got in store for 2010....
In the documentary “Inside the Outside” which is out on mtv in the USA, Lady Gaga tells a story about a sad part of her life:
As tu will see in the video below, she tells about how a group of boys from her school picked her up and threw her in the trash on the calle while a bunch of other girls sat around and watched
She tells also, how she held back the tears because she didn't want to seem weak in front of everyone. Later, she told no one, not even her parents.
See her tell the rest of the story in the video below. Honestly, it is pretty sad. However it does have a happy ending which is that Lady Gaga is now an amazing super star, and those other kids who bullied her years hace are probably regretting treating her so darn bad!
I WILL POST THE VIDEO......NOW