Originally Posted by gideongallery

you might want to check what the base is for the stats

for example your i know that the numbers for this section came from record company sales



it completely ignores all the artist who are kickstartering their careers to give away their music on p2p

when you add those numbers in new artist are actually growing

so basically the scum bag record companies who take 90% force the artist to pay the entire produce cost out of their 10% are losing record sales

the fans are getting their music for free

the uber fans pay big money to get the new album released

and

the artist get bigger signing bonus then what they would get from the scum bag record companies.