The top 20 pop albums sold fewer than a total of 750,000 CDs last week.

You read that correctly. The actual total was 738,211. The number includes 220,000 copies of a greatest hits singles collection from all the labels, "Now That's What I Call Music! Vol. 22." Without

Tends to imply that the global music industry will collapse unless something is done very soo.
And executives, choosing not to notice like inhabitants of San Francisco, continue like sheep to do what they have always done.
500,000 CDs by all artistes in one week?
There were times when a single act in my era did that in one day!

JK2006 wrote:
Tends to imply that the global music industry will collapse unless something is done very soo.
And executives, choosing not to notice like inhabitants of San Francisco, continue like sheep to do what they have always done.
500,000 CDs by all artistes in one week?
There were times when a single act in my era did that in one day!

Maybe just the stratosphere.

I always thought the majors' mass-media share (around 75%) would hold.

But that would require some releases for fans (that meant fanatics - remember?).

What on earth is there to get excited about in the stratosphere these days.

Everyone I know is buying indie and DIY... and spending all evening on MySpace etc.

The snag with this new economy is that it's very low budget... in fact it's pretty much financed by the artists! Now that's not a problem in itself... but I do like the infrastructure the music industry has built up... that's why we can make DIY CDs... because of Robbie Williams.

So I think I've just talked myself into agreeing there JK