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An excellent and well researched article, on an interesting and important topic. I've been thinking about writing in Wikipedia about this subject, but haven't had time. I have a couple of suggestions.
I think you should lead with the decline in record sales, since this is the most important point, at least for the music industry (as opposed to the technology industry or the consumer). The main thrust of the story, in my view, is that decreasing dollars has changed the industry permanently and completely.
This article emphasizes the role of digital downloads but that is only a one part of the story. (As the article points out, it's not even 100% clear that digital downloads are the cause of the decreasing dollars.) Some other aspects of the story: the layoffs in the industry, the closing of record stores ( Tower Records, hundreds of locals) and the final victory of the box stores ( Wal-mart, Best buy), the end of "legal payola" through independent promotion, the increasing power of Live Nation and the new importance of live music to the industry as a whole, the end of A&R as we know it, the emergence of the " 360 deal" ( Korn, Jay-Z, Madonna), bands bypassing the record companies all together ( The Eagles, Radiohead, Nine inch nails), 2007's misguided obsession with ringtones, etc. etc. These are all caused by the decreasing dollars.
I think you'd enjoy Steve Knopper's excellent new book Appetite for Self-destruction, which is an accurate, balanced and well researched look at the music industry in the last 30 years. It's the only book I know of that really tells this story.
Anyway, like I said, nice work. I may have time to work on this article later in the year, but I hesitate to change anything in an article that is clearly the work of one author. ---- CharlesGillingham ( talk) 22:57, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
(I moved this from the article to here - perhaps of use to someone). -- ZimZalaBim talk 03:27, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
Just a thought on the decline in sales aspect. Someone might want to add that studies have suggested that a major culprit for the decline in sales is the artificially high record sales in the 90's due to the emergent CD technology and people switching over and re-buying many albums. I think they mentioned this in the study from UNC if anyone feels like adding this. 140.220.1.66 ( talk) 23:19, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Firstly, thank you to the Wikipedia community for both your positive comments and your criticism. The positive comments are invigorating for my effort on this page, and the criticism helps me to understand my own shortcomings in my writing. However, unfortunately, I will have little time to develop this page further until the end of my Spring semester, as I am currently taking 18 Credits. I do look foreword to having time to expand the scope of the content.
Next, please feel free to edit this page. Like an above author pointed out, that's the point of Wiki'. My available time to devote to this project is variable, but the Wiki' community is obviously not so. Also, my scope of knowledge is obviously limited to topics that I have time/ability to research.
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Feels a bit strange that Spotify is not mentioned anywhere in the article. Sure, it has a limited reach (only part of Europe for the premium version and even less for the free version) but still seems worth a mention as it is, to my knowledge, a completely new way of distributing digital music. -- Rinman
This article still primarily discusses only one aspect of the music industry (digital music distribution) and does not cover the industry as a whole. It reads like "the software industry's role in music in the 2000s". Since I don't have time to properly fix this article, I am considering cutting and pasting a version of Music Industry#2000s as a new lead for this article, with perhaps some adjustments to save some existing text. Any objections? ---- CharlesGillingham ( talk) 17:33, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
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Can we change the name of the article to "Music Industry in the 21st Century"? It isn't a pressing issue, but it sounds more interesting. Also, a numerical version of a decade looks kind of odd at the beginning of the title and not entirely grammatically correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.6.118.222 ( talk) 22:25, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 13:03, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
An excellent and well researched article, on an interesting and important topic. I've been thinking about writing in Wikipedia about this subject, but haven't had time. I have a couple of suggestions.
I think you should lead with the decline in record sales, since this is the most important point, at least for the music industry (as opposed to the technology industry or the consumer). The main thrust of the story, in my view, is that decreasing dollars has changed the industry permanently and completely.
This article emphasizes the role of digital downloads but that is only a one part of the story. (As the article points out, it's not even 100% clear that digital downloads are the cause of the decreasing dollars.) Some other aspects of the story: the layoffs in the industry, the closing of record stores ( Tower Records, hundreds of locals) and the final victory of the box stores ( Wal-mart, Best buy), the end of "legal payola" through independent promotion, the increasing power of Live Nation and the new importance of live music to the industry as a whole, the end of A&R as we know it, the emergence of the " 360 deal" ( Korn, Jay-Z, Madonna), bands bypassing the record companies all together ( The Eagles, Radiohead, Nine inch nails), 2007's misguided obsession with ringtones, etc. etc. These are all caused by the decreasing dollars.
I think you'd enjoy Steve Knopper's excellent new book Appetite for Self-destruction, which is an accurate, balanced and well researched look at the music industry in the last 30 years. It's the only book I know of that really tells this story.
Anyway, like I said, nice work. I may have time to work on this article later in the year, but I hesitate to change anything in an article that is clearly the work of one author. ---- CharlesGillingham ( talk) 22:57, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
(I moved this from the article to here - perhaps of use to someone). -- ZimZalaBim talk 03:27, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
Just a thought on the decline in sales aspect. Someone might want to add that studies have suggested that a major culprit for the decline in sales is the artificially high record sales in the 90's due to the emergent CD technology and people switching over and re-buying many albums. I think they mentioned this in the study from UNC if anyone feels like adding this. 140.220.1.66 ( talk) 23:19, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
Firstly, thank you to the Wikipedia community for both your positive comments and your criticism. The positive comments are invigorating for my effort on this page, and the criticism helps me to understand my own shortcomings in my writing. However, unfortunately, I will have little time to develop this page further until the end of my Spring semester, as I am currently taking 18 Credits. I do look foreword to having time to expand the scope of the content.
Next, please feel free to edit this page. Like an above author pointed out, that's the point of Wiki'. My available time to devote to this project is variable, but the Wiki' community is obviously not so. Also, my scope of knowledge is obviously limited to topics that I have time/ability to research.
Regards,
-
AS847618
Feels a bit strange that Spotify is not mentioned anywhere in the article. Sure, it has a limited reach (only part of Europe for the premium version and even less for the free version) but still seems worth a mention as it is, to my knowledge, a completely new way of distributing digital music. -- Rinman
This article still primarily discusses only one aspect of the music industry (digital music distribution) and does not cover the industry as a whole. It reads like "the software industry's role in music in the 2000s". Since I don't have time to properly fix this article, I am considering cutting and pasting a version of Music Industry#2000s as a new lead for this article, with perhaps some adjustments to save some existing text. Any objections? ---- CharlesGillingham ( talk) 17:33, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
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-- JeffGBot ( talk) 06:30, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!
-- JeffGBot ( talk) 06:30, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
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-- JeffGBot ( talk) 06:31, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Can we change the name of the article to "Music Industry in the 21st Century"? It isn't a pressing issue, but it sounds more interesting. Also, a numerical version of a decade looks kind of odd at the beginning of the title and not entirely grammatically correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.6.118.222 ( talk) 22:25, 7 November 2014 (UTC)