Quote:This is a complete and total non-story. (sorry Drifter)

 

The article is referring to physical copies.  Not downloads.  (or pandora/spotify plays)  

 

Almost no one buys physical copies anymore.  This is an industry-wide issue. Not only pop music.  Physical sales are down across the board in every genre, style, period, whatever.

 

It sucks for musicians because so many people use pandora or spotify or a similar digital service and they get away with paying a fraction of what they should in terms of royalties.  

 

Example:  A good friend co-wrote a song on an Amy Winehouse record. His quarterly check from downloads is still several hundred dollars.  His check recently from pandora?   $9.72

 

This is why I don't 'download' music anymore.  I buy from Amazon even though I could get it by other means.  My son is an aspiring musician and I see how much work him and his band mates put into writing and performing a song.  It opened my eyes to the outright theft of musician's efforts and the realization that most people who take music give it no thought but would pitch holy hell if they worked a day and were paid nothing.  

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