28 1 / 2012
Business Matters: Optimistic About the Record Business? You’re Not Alone | Billboard
Reposted from http://bit.ly/AbvifV on January 27, 2012 at 03:42PMIn a post at the blog of his New Music Seminar, Tommy Silverman walks readers through a litany of stats from 2011 that give reason to feel good about the state of the record business: strong growth in digital album sales, surprisingly resilient CD sales, CD sales on the Internet and healthy vinyl LP sales. Also, MXP4, creator of social, music-based games, announced the launch of two new games that will be launched during MIDEM. And Chilling Effects, a website that acts as a clearinghouse for DMCA takedown requests, is posting all takedown requests submitted to Twitter.