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Chances are you aren’t paying for Spotify

by at August 8, 2011 5:33 pm

Spotify was all the rage when it was released in the United States in July. Getting a Spotify invite was the biggest thing since Google+ invites came on the scene. Spotify is doing well for itself for the short period of time it has been available. However, the vast majority of Spotify’s users aren’t paying for it.

Bands to stop cutting albums? Track downloads best album sales

by at January 5, 2009 10:20 am

Over 1 billion digital tracks were served up to downloaders in America in 2008, setting a new record. While the US purchased more music than ever before, the industry is not gloating, in fact they are worried about ever decreasing album sales which declined for the fourth straight year. Album sales are what the industry has pegged as its money maker.

Album sales are off 45% since 2000. The answers why are pretty clear: we don’t need to pay for stuff the bands made just to fill an album. Seriously, every album I own has a track I typically fast forward or choose not to download to my player. Some easy examples: REM’s Airplane off their Accelerator; Depeche Mode’s Macro off their Playing the Angel release. Surely, you know what I am talking about.

Click to follow to see how iTunes influences purchases and what the music industry is doing to fight back.