[LINK] RFI: Music media trends

[Roger Clarke]

Roger wrote on Thu, 26 Oct 2023 09:16:59 +1100
 > Are any linkers up-to-date on the extent of music industry rip-off?
 > Russell Clarke posted to me the attached image.

I've belatedly discovered that listman stripped the file off.
Try:   http://xamax.com.au/EC/MusicSales-1973-2022.png

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I commented:

If I'm interpolating properly, the massive rip-off may have been worst 
during the CD and cassette eras (even after allowing for production and 
distribution costs), although still bad now (with much lower production 
and distribution costs), and a massive switch from product (with long 
life and unconstrained multiple use) to service (with access dependent 
on an ongoing subscription or per-use payment, and 
net-connection-dependency).

Russell replied:

Yeah it is a bit hard to see the units vs profits.  And nothing in there 
that shows artist income share - which is horrendous on some streaming 
services…but so was/is it on physical media also, thus why touring and 
merch is essential for bands to be profitable!

And yes the ongoing ownership of licence is a bugbear.  That being said, 
we are now using spotify more for just ease of access.  Ideally i’d use 
it to find the music i want and then buy the cd and them store it on my 
computer and share back to phones from there.  But that’s not the 
easiest path.  Brendan still collects the CDs though. But yeah the 
trend/norm does show, even from people like me who would *like* to be 
more diligent.  (Bandcamp is one of the websites who sells digital perm 
licenses and gives a larger share back to bands.  Apple is horrendous, 
and the licence is also tied down to the user - unless they’ve changed 
that).


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