Internet downloading poll for my CJ class

[Brigliadore]

Originally posted by headsplice
From the numbers that I've read (and can't reproduce, oops), most of the money from album sales ends up going to the Labels anyway

That is another great example of why Alan & I aren't buying Cd's. The record company says they are suing everyone to protect the "Artists" when the artists get something like 6 cents for every album sold.

Here is another interesting tidbit of info that I read in a magazine about a week ago. Norah Jones' new album Feels Like Home sold something like 1.6 million copies in its first week of release (and like 150 thousand in the second week), numbers like that have not been done since in-sync (I don't care if I spelled them wrong) 5 years or so ago. And on top of selling 1.6 million copies the first week of release she is also the number one downloaded artist on the internet, according to a company that tracks this type of stuff. That tells me that even with people downloading her music left and right, they are still going out and buying the Cd.