euphonicremarks.com » RIAA http://www.euphonicremarks.com All things music for musicians, and music lovers Mon, 05 Apr 2010 06:10:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Bar Graph of Certified Music Sales http://www.euphonicremarks.com/2009/09/bar-graph-of-certified-music-sales/ http://www.euphonicremarks.com/2009/09/bar-graph-of-certified-music-sales/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:13:08 +0000 oneoverphi http://www.euphonicremarks.com/?p=869 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 website, the Wikipedia’s List of Best Selling Records.

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]]> http://www.euphonicremarks.com/2009/09/bar-graph-of-certified-music-sales/feed/ 0 RIAA CEO Talks Napster http://www.euphonicremarks.com/2009/06/riaa-ceo-talks-napster/ http://www.euphonicremarks.com/2009/06/riaa-ceo-talks-napster/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:33:05 +0000 oneoverphi http://euphonicremarks.wordpress.com/?p=608 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 companies for many years were radio stations and record stores. All of a sudden record companies were on the hook from music fans.

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