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Mark Your Calendars: Music Industry To End Only Slightly Sooner Than Expected
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<blockquote data-quote="muzikfrk" data-source="post: 1590"><p>A new PricewaterhouseCoopers report released today estimates that digital-music sales will surpass physical-format sales in three years. So that has to be good news, right? Please?</p><p style="margin-left: 20px">[According to the report], spending in the U.S. will be dropping about 0.4% a year for the next five years, reaching an expected $11.3 billion in 2011, down from the $11.5 billion spent in 2006. Report predicts that sales will drop again this year, to $10.48 billion, and next, to $10.43 billion, but will start to recover in 2009...</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">Driving the digital marketplace will be new mobile services, attractive pricing, enhanced interoperability and record-store closings. Ringtunes, for example, are expected to bring in $1.58 billion in 2011, nearly double the $800 million predicted for this year. Ringtones, meanwhile, will practically disappear.</p><p>So ti summarize: In two years, there will be no record stores, nobody will be making any money, and every movie-going experience will be interrupted by teenagers playing full-length Ashley Tisdale songs on their Nokia. Does that count as a depression?</p><p><a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117967322.html?categoryid=18&cs=1" target="_blank">Music sales shifting to digital globally</a> [Variety]</p><p><a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/idolator/full?a=TM6UfI" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/idolator/full?i=TM6UfI" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></img></a></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://idolator.com/tunes/mark-your-calendars/music-industry-to-end-only-slightly-sooner-than-expected-271046.php" target="_blank">More...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muzikfrk, post: 1590"] A new PricewaterhouseCoopers report released today estimates that digital-music sales will surpass physical-format sales in three years. So that has to be good news, right? Please? [INDENT][According to the report], spending in the U.S. will be dropping about 0.4% a year for the next five years, reaching an expected $11.3 billion in 2011, down from the $11.5 billion spent in 2006. Report predicts that sales will drop again this year, to $10.48 billion, and next, to $10.43 billion, but will start to recover in 2009...[/INDENT] [INDENT]Driving the digital marketplace will be new mobile services, attractive pricing, enhanced interoperability and record-store closings. Ringtunes, for example, are expected to bring in $1.58 billion in 2011, nearly double the $800 million predicted for this year. Ringtones, meanwhile, will practically disappear.[/INDENT] So ti summarize: In two years, there will be no record stores, nobody will be making any money, and every movie-going experience will be interrupted by teenagers playing full-length Ashley Tisdale songs on their Nokia. Does that count as a depression? [URL="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117967322.html?categoryid=18&cs=1"]Music sales shifting to digital globally[/URL] [Variety] [URL="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/idolator/full?a=TM6UfI"][IMG]http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/idolator/full?i=TM6UfI[/IMG]</img>[/URL] [url=http://idolator.com/tunes/mark-your-calendars/music-industry-to-end-only-slightly-sooner-than-expected-271046.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]
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