Canadian music sales
p2pnet.net News:- “Canadian Music Industry Year End Report.”
That’s just in from the companies which track music sales and monitor performance – Nielsen SoundScan and Nielsen BDS.
Apparently, Canadian music sales in the year 2006 increased almost 10% from 2005, after counting year-end sales and monitoring airplay data.
Album sales declined by 4.7%, but this was overshadowed by the huge increase in digital sales, up 122%.
Will someone please tell the CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America) what’s happening?
They seem worried that file-sharing is devastating their sales and hurting the artists.
Go here for the full report.
Wenda Atkin – Canada Jams
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January 19th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Doesn’t look like that report included the money collected from the levy on recordable media.
In 2005 it was $35 million.
http://cpcc.ca/english/finHighlights.htm
January 19th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
“Doesn’t look like that report included the money collected from the levy on recordable media. In 2005 it was $35 million.”
Good job on catching that. What I’d really like to know just how high sales could have reached if there wasn’t a boycott going on. I imagine that it would amount to a lot of profit, far more than 122% at least anyways. It’s really too bad that the recording industry prefers to stick their collective heads in the sand rather than open up their eyes to the truth and admit they were wrong right from the beginning. I’m willing to bet everything I own, even my very own immortal soul, that they are making far less money than they could be, all by going the spiteful sue-em-all route. How many albums and digital files did I buy in 2006? Zero, and that ain’t a lie. Believe me, if things were different (better pricing, higher quality, and no suing ever single person and/or good idea in sight)… well quite simply there wouldn’t be a limit to how much I’d be willing to spend on services like iTunes. I’d certainly be broke much of the time, that’s for sure. The main problem is that they think there aren’t any consequences to their actions. As far as I know, the only people in the world who think like that are either (a) crazy, (b) an immature child, or (c) drunk on money and far more power than they deserve. But hey, that’s life. The only worthwhile and truly lasting lessons that stick are the ones we learn the hard way. As I’m fond of saying, you just can’t protect people from their own worst enemy; themselves.
January 19th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
“(better pricing, higher quality, and no suing ever single person and/or good idea in sight)”
Was supposed to say:
(NO DRM, better pricing, higher quality, and no suing ever single person and/or good idea in sight)
I thought DRM in my head, but didn’t write it down for some reason. Odd since it’s one of the most important reasons. DRM = pure evil!
January 20th, 2007 at 6:50 am
I’m not Canadian. However, the very same amount has been purchased by me. Net sum for the time sue’em all has been going. When the MPAA joined them, they were added to the list of who I don’t buy from.
My dollar is a vote. I don’t vote for business practices I don’t believe nor the companies and corporations that support them. As a consequence, not only have I ceased to buy music and movies, but I’ve also dropped cable, satellite, and the like. It’s been long enough that I no longer miss them at all.