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Bar Graph of Certified Music Sales

By oneoverphi

This can be either very inspir­ing, or very depress­ing for the strug­gling band. I won’t go into the his­tory of record sale cer­ti­fi­ca­tion here, I’m just inter­ested in giv­ing a sense of scale of record sales. The Wikipedia page has a good run­down on the par­tic­u­lars of cer­ti­fi­ca­tion for the curi­ous. These num­bers come from the RIAA’s... »

RIAA CEO Talks Napster">RIAA CEO Talks Napster

By oneoverphi

For­mer RIAA CEO Hillary Rosen has an inter­view out on the Bill­board site where she reflects on the 10 year anniver­sary of Nap­ster. Cer­tainly an inter­est­ing read to those con­cerned with the busi­ness side of music. All of a sud­den, record com­pa­nies started hear­ing from music fans in a way they never had before. The “cus­tomer” for record... »

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