From Brian Behlendorf Sent Thu, Oct 15th 1998, 20:55
From Brian Behlendorf Sent Thu, Oct 15th 1998, 20:55
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Iain Hinchliffe wrote:
> After seeing a posting about Novamute I thought it might be relevant to
> mention that Mute are, in the light of plummeting record sales (as "drop in
> the ocean" type of examples both Depeche Mode and the most recent PJ Harvey
> have sold less than half their 'normal' projected sales and this slump is
> definitely repeated throughout the UK record industry with another friend at
> BMG confirming their biggest release of the last few weeks, Republica's
> latest, selling a measly 5000 units after a huge amount of publicity),
So, given that all these albums are widely available in mp3 format online,
are we starting to see evidence that, perhaps, the record industry is
partially right and mp3's ARE starting to cut into record sales? Or are
these just extraordinarily bad examples?
Brian