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CD sales have fallen since 2000. Spotify, in your example, came out 8 years later. https://www.statista.com/chart/12950/cd-sales-in-the-us/ https://www.statist
by EADGBE 8y ago
CD sales have fallen since 2000. Spotify, in your example, came out 8 years later.
https://www.statista.com/chart/12950/cd-sales-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/chart/12950/cd-sales-in-the-us/
Conversely, Napster was released in 1999.
- artwr 8y agoIllegal downloads surely had an impact in the 2000s era, but I think by now the amount of freely streamable content is by far the largest factor.
- intended 8y agoUnlikely - streaming expanded the market for music. I recall a report that showed that p2p networks acted primarily like a broadcast medium, which tuned to the most popular works. The entire free content model has arisen because of tacit acknowledgement of that fact. Youtube, hell everyone, applies those lessons today.
- EADGBE 8y agoAnd, as I pointed out originally, there was about an 8 year gap between demise of album sales and the prominence of streaming.