Research for music video: State of the music industry

To sum it up, the music industy is in a terrible state. There is no two ways about it, the music industry is dying and it is down to the digital media being so easly avaliable for free online. Piracy is thriving, people do not need to go out and pay £9.99 for an album anymore, you can just illegally download it at home for free in a matter of seconds.

It has been a decade since piracy and the arrival of iTunes has destroyed the notion of an album in favor of being able to download the single/tracks. The music business has not found a method to repair the lost CD sales. Arcade Fire's ' The Suburbs' may have been album of the year at the US Grammy Awards and winner of the international album prize at the Brits, but only managed to sell 1.4 million copies worldwide." If the clocks were turnt back a few years before, that would have been 4million to 5 million copies sold" says the indie rock bands manager, Scott Rodger. The only bad that can actualy sell mass amounts of albums anymore are take that, as there fan base are older women who prefer to buy a CD than download songs off the internet.