MONEY, MUSIC AND PIRACY

The music industry is rapidly contracting; this much everyone knows. But by how much? And just how quickly are things deteriorating? Is it necessarily all gloom and doom across the board?

If you dork out on music industry stats like I do, then this recently released study by ClickItTicket.com is for you. They’ve compiled a giant scrolling graphic that shows a number of different metrics in easy-to-read chart form; recorded music sales, digital sales, live concert ticket sales, most downloaded iTunes songs of all time, how much (on average) each member of a band gets from a record sale, how the money is split up between distributor/label/band… these just are a few of the topics.

Anyone remotely interested in the future of the music biz — which should be all of you — should absolutely take a look. It’s fascinating.

-VN