The other day I read a transalation of the Rolling Stone report on "The Decline of the Music Industry". That translation incluided some graphs comparing the sales of records between 2000 and 2006. (Don't try to get them from the online article, because that graphs are not there).
Most of the graphs were quite obvious (sales where down...) but there was some interesting info. In one of the graphs they were comparing the average number of records sold between a top 1 record and a top 10 record. The top 1 record sales went down 45%, but the top 10 record sales only decreased about 10%. In both cases, the sales for the top 1 were much higher than the sales of the top 10 (more than twice the sales on the 2000 and still more on 2006). Interesting statistics: so it seems that piracy is hurting more the top sellers (those 'hyper-commercial','over-advertised' records that I do not care about) than other records (still a top 10 is probably as 'hyper-commercial' and uninteresting...). And that is making the sales becoming closer between top 1 and top 10. Illegal justice..?
I do not want to mean anything, but I just love how statistics bring out small surprises. I just think... we should never just simplify things, and try to see all the different details. And in any case, if the 'crappy' music founds more trouble... I won't care so much...
