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Online music sharing kills superstars, favors new artists
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By way of Slashdot I found this interesting article on Buffalo.edu. It is about a study done by the University of Buffalo. It claims that the current music swapping does affect the music industry but not in a bad way. While currently record companies claim that music piracy is bad for upcoming artists, this study proves it's just the opposite: Conducted when Gopal and Bhattacharjee were Sanders' doctoral students at UB, the study analyzed the Billboard Top 200 charts -- reflecting weekly album sales -from 1991 to 2000. Over the 10-year period, they found a 31.5 percent increase in the number of different artists on the Top 200, indicating that more new artists are hitting the charts than ever before, pushing established musical acts from the charts or keeping them from hitting the charts at all. The biggest change occurred from 1998 to 2000, when there was a 10 percent increase in the number of different artists who hit the Billboard 200. The researchers link the trend to rapid growth in the number of Internet users -from 3 million to 116.7 million -- over the past 10 years and the emergence of music-sharing services such as Napster, which has led to widespread online music sampling and piracy. "The prevalence of online music technologies appears to be eroding what is known as the 'superstar phenomenon,'" explains Gopal. "This theory contends that past reputation is more important than artistic merit in fueling the continued commercial success of entertainment superstars." Which may be why many current pop superstars are adamantly opposed to online music sharing, adds Bhattacharjee. "Our data shows that the dominance of a few music superstars is decreasing and their hold on music sales is slipping," he says. "This is definitely good news for up-andcoming artists and groups, who now have a better chance at chart success because of these technologies." And what's good for pop's rising stars is good for the music
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And what s good for pop s rising stars is good for the music industry: Contrary to conventional wisdom, the researchers say inexpensive online music services, such as Rhapsody and Pressplay, can increase music-industry profits and reverse the effects of online music piracy. Sanders says the researchers found that "lowering the cost to legally sample music online will actually propel more users to purchase music because it allows them to check out new songs or new artists. "Here again, though, the news is bad for music's superstars," adds Sanders. "Users are more likely to pirate a superstar's music than they are to pay to sample it because they are already aware of the value, or likeability, of the superstar's music." Based on their findings, the researchers suggest that music companies support online music sampling services or begin to invest more in their own sampling services. They also recommend that companies use flexible pricing: charging a lower fee to sample unknown artists and a higher fee to sample superstar artists, which would help superstars recoup some profits lost to pirating. Personally I think this study is closer to the truth then any opinion I have heard by people of the music industry. And also this study has the same conclusion, lower the prices ! 16 Apr How to get 750 MB on 74min/650MB CD-R 16 Apr iRiver iMP-150 ChromeX and NOMAD Jukebox 3 specs LITE-ON CD-RW 40X12X48 INTERNAL IDE $97.99 ! Nero Burning Rom Version 5.5 $59.99 ! Toshiba 16X DVD ROM/48X CD-ROM SD-M1502-TA $64 ! Xtender Chip for Xbox, games and Xbox itself, click here! ! LITE-ON LTD-163 16X DVD/48XCD-ROM CYBERLINK POWER DVD SOFTWARE RETAIL $39$ ! CD-Mate 30 day Free Trial, full mastering and clone software! ! LITE-ON 32X12X40 CD-RW DRIVE OVERCLOCKABLE TO 48X! 84$

Reaction by the111 on Tuesday 16 April 2002
So do the little artists think Napping is killing music? No. I remember a few years ago - home taping was killing music. And before then radio was going to kill music. And, in fact, before then, and form of recorded music at all was going to kill live music!
Reaction by Sherrif on Wednesday 17 April 2002
You won't hear from these people again.the RIAA will gag them!!!. React on this newsposting
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