Now if you look at these figures you will no doubt come to the conclusion that the music industry is not booming but it certainly is on a steady rise that is expected to continue into the future. The changes in technology have played a major part in this increase if numbers. If we once again look at the numbers from Grab Stats we find that Digital Music Production and sales have had a meteoric rise in sales and the statistics and forecasts for the future are just as stellar with an over 400% increase in revenue. The figures on these are as follows: 2006 – $2.9 billion 2007 – $4.5 billion 2008 – $7.0 billion 2009 – $10.7 billion 2010 – $12.9 billion 2011 – 14.8 billion
Another interesting bit of information that we gleaned from Grab Stats was regarding the controversial music sharing issue. The Grab Stats numbers show us some rather dismal stats about it. In a survey conducted on households in the United States alone it looks like 70% of the people that responded regularly use an illegal P2P site to share and download music and only about 37% of people use legal services to get their music. It also showed that 10% of people share music files illegally via email and a full11 % of us share the files via an Instant Messenger service. No matter how you cut it, slice it or dice it that is one rather large slice out of the monetary end of the music industry pie that we as professionals work very hard to get.
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The seminar was held by the Chinese Folk Literature and Art Association during the Qingming Festival, also known as Tomb Sweeping Day.
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The Chinese Folk Literature and Art Association is planning to hold similar seminars and cultural activities in May this year to mark the Dragon Boat Festival.
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