The Decline is music sales, what do you think has caused this, P2P Networks, Cd Burners?
as we all know the music industry was booming in the late 80's early 90's it was at its peak, yet another but if we look back on music from that era bands such as iron maiden, Judas priest, Twisted Sister, Manowar, W.A.S.P., Cindy Lauper, Billy Idol, Annie Lennox to name a few, these are some of the many artists from that era who today we still have not forgotten and then we look to the late 90's we had artists like the backstreet boys, Ash, Eifal 69, lou bega, Shaggy, S Club 7 etc, if you bought those cd's we are they now sitting in your cd rack with a large amount of dust and with a case that bearly holds together, you might let your children play frisbee with it later, if these artists released another album would you buy it?! Ofcourse you wouldn't the Idol extravaganza has proven this to be correct, their lyrics and musical talent arn't good enough to move you for more than five seconds, Ben lumis the new zealand idol winner of 2004 realesed his debut cd in 2004 it did ok, he realeased a 2005 album this album did not sell more than 1000 copies people are now asking ben lumis who? He was Shortly fired from sony because of poor record sales.

Tv Doesn't help music sales with only showing music of the black culture, on the new zealand music channel a rock/pop etc band will appear every 10-15 songs that are played of the rap/hip hop/r'n'b style and every friday night at 1am theres a metal show that airs for roughly an hour. this is almost dictatorship if not already the industry is pretty much airing music that they think people should listen to, where's all the other styles of music's chances to get aired on tv or the radio!?

our children are being exposed to other cultures which im not saying is bad but what about their culture young children of non-black families no nothing about their culture because they are exposed to new black culture on tv and at school because we should feel sorry for the black people.

i say there needs to be a review on the music we advertise because music has been apart of peoples cultures and lives since the dawn of man, We humanbeings appreciate music that still moves us for years that is why many don't appreciate music with the same lyrics repeated over and over again that is succesful marketing all on its own, we need music that is catchy yet is not lyricaly the same throughtout the song, these songs separate the Very succesful from the one hit wonders your cd rack is full of.

"90% of Bands Never Make a Profit"