Which leads to a question. Are sales down due to filesharing, or have RIAA members just lost marketshare?
I contend RIAA sales are down because they lost marketshare. There are more CDs being self published or released by non RIAA members than ever before. Sales from websites, concerts and car trunks are taking away sales from traditional labels. Access and awareness of that music has exploded through webradio, websites, p2p, satellite radio and tours. March 2005 • The Big Picture: Radios Wounded Business Model Well, maybe. I used to listen to the radio to find new music. But Radio has abdicated that role; Introducing listeners to new bands, songs and albums has long since been abandoned by the medium. It was considered too risky to possibly send a listener down the dial. Instead, listeners were sent away fom radio wholesale. The great irony of this is that the ever shrinking playlists are what first impacted music sales — consumers dont buy music that they have never heard or heard of. Now that the Clear Channels of the world have mortally wounded that industry, their methods have finall
