The Acceptance within the music industry of the viability of home studios is just the tip of the iceberg of change which the large players in the business must adopt if they hope to re-build. After 3 years of declining sales, downloading, quickly changing musical trends, downsizing, and mergers and acquisitions, it appears that the horizon is brighter - sales are up world wide nearly 9% in the last quarter. The major players are now much smarter, smaller, more maneuverable and are battle hardened by tough times - we must remember, this was the first period of sustained hardship in the industry's history. The majors will now make the fundamental and structural changes necessary to move the business back to its former success. The Indies will, in the face of the new, revitalized and re-formed majors, who still enjoy all of their financial and global clout, fondly remember these past 3 to 5 years as "the good times".

I am writing a small report on this, and am wondering if anybody here has some valuable info or their opininos to share since I am also interested to hear your opinion on this. (In order to think about this more clearly and complete it)

also if you have any valuable points that i can use for this, please let me know
thanks!

i really hope they succeed in doing this.. whats your source of information?

btw: the problem in my city is.. the Record stores ain`t selling it, and we aren`t buying it cause they aint`t selling it..

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The Corporations will always find a way to make money, unless somehow the concept of capitalism becomes destroyed.

I dunno if this information can be used but I read today that Legal Downloads outsold CD Singles for the first time last week (in the UK that is).

I think a very useful lot of info would be some historic data on the switch from vinyl to tape and how sales declined once there...this was known as a huge downfall in the industry. I think that the most prominent factor that sustains the music industry has got to be "format" ...every generation had its own standard format that leaps above all and then finally declines because of bootleg duplication. Now we enter an era with multimedia (as in multi formats for music to be pressed on) and that will be ever-changing. In a way you could correlate the sales data of the era where there was a huge media change(the 80's) and look at the effects of the industry and see where it was and how it progressed...then you could hypothesize a future trend or outcome, Could be interesting.

Not too popular a post... I wonder why. Maybe it is because many believe the major labels have made too much money for too long. Or maybe it's because more artists are free to make music any way they please.

What do you think?

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The greatest hoax was convincing the world that money was of more value than time.

well i wrote a fairly good report
i used points such as home studios taking over (to put it in simple terms)
the fact that on line selling, marketing and so on is much more in favour of smaller independent labels, and also other facts that show that independent labels are indeed on the right path...

they will most likely lead the music industry in the following years, in my opinion


peace!