SGAE: "Agreements on Internet offset the decline in CD sales"

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Friday, 29 April 2011 18:04

Enrique Loras, the director general of the SGAE said today in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria that the various agreements to which they have come up with Internet service providers offset the decline in CD sales .

Loras says that in 2009 revenue was 51 million, while this year has been a turnover of 49 million, which already included the agreements they have made ​​with Google , YouTube and other services like Spotify . In the latter case stated that

Spotify does business, we have to ask permission, we give and we get paid in relation to what they tell us what is most heard.

Normal. And the director of the SGAE notes that the Net is now more democratic and this has made ​​the works exceeds consumption and income distribution are spread among a larger number of artists. While noting that since 2010 has not been released even a single new Spanish artist and artists are outside what most hog.

This highlights our various things and it seems that the SGAE begins to know better little by little that is Internet and what it means, because of these statements seem to have realized that here there is no border and neighbors Longoria Palace may prefer Japanese music or be antipodes without committing any kind of fault. The role Spotify and other similar services is normal and no wonder they start to run it, the strange thing is that have not begun to do before and while running them is not easy, is proving to be a model convince users.

What I do not quite see is the statement in which Enrique Loras notes that did not launch a single new artist last year. Probably if you have created new artists, but may not have had such an impact, but surely there are new artists, singers and great bands. Anyway, think what moves on the internet is a compensation for the drop in record sales I think something wrong from the beginning. The logical evolution of the music industry goes through the Internet, something completely different is that participants in the industry are opposed to this development.

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SGAE: "Agreements on Internet offset the decline in CD sales" written in ALT1040 April 29, 2011 by David Blonde
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