For the week ending May 30, the U.S. music industry sold a total of 4,984,000 albums, according to Nielsen Soundscan. This figure, which includes new and catalog releases, represents the fewest number of albums sold in one week since Soundscan began compiling this data in 1994.
UMGD's Urie cites this week's album total as "all the more reason why everyone in the industry should be focused on getting the U.S. Congress to introduce legislation that makes the Internet service providers our allies in fighting piracy. Piracy is getting worse and worse and the government needs to focus on that."
Or maybe, possibly, popular music is fucking horrible right now?
Seriously, I've been coming across really, really bad 80's music lately (oh, Sussudio). It sounds like the fucking Beatles compared to what's going on in popular music right now.
Put substance over style and start putting out some decent records, and people will buy them. Not complicated.
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