ADVISORY/Experts Available To Discuss Drop in Global Music Sales.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE) TOPIC: An annual report from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry shows global recorded music recorded music n → música grabada sales have decreased for the fourth consecutive year, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. an article by Agence France Presse. Experts say last year's 7.6 percent drop is due to piracy, illegal downloads and competition from other products within the entertainment industry. Despite the decrease globally, some countries such as Australia, United Kingdom and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. are showing an increase in album sales. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Dan Arendt, a partner at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Deloitte & Touche (also referred to as Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and branded as Deloitte.) is the second largest professional services firm in the world, and one of the Big Four auditors, along with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young and KPMG. , has many years of experience working on behalf of the largest media companies in the world. His experience covers broadcasting, publishing and entertainment companies with deep knowledge of the industry and companies such as Vivendi and Bertlesmann. PR Contact: Rick Hansen
CC, OBC, LLD (honoris causa), D.Litt. (honoris causa) (born August 26, 1957) is a Canadian paraplegic athlete and activist for people with spinal cord injuries. 303-828-2730 hansen911@earthlink.net Mark Coleman is the author of "Playback, From the Victrola to MP3, 100 Years of Music, Machines and Money" (Da Capo Press, 2004), and former Editor and Rock Critic for Rolling Stone, Details, Village Voice (NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City ) and Newsday (NY). He is the definitive authority on the history of recorded music specifically relating to how it affected the recording industries past, present and future. Coleman is perfect for any sort of pieces you might be working on concerning the digitization of music and how it is affecting the recording industry. A 20 year veteran, Coleman is able to offer unique yet substantiated opinions on what is happening within the music industry, specifically relating to the controversy over the downloading of music and how it effects record sales. Coleman can also give opinions regarding what the future of music distribution will be, after this digital battle between consumers and record companies is finished, and how, if at all, record companies will be able to sustain making money. Coleman's book "Playback" is an authoritative and comprehensive look at how recorded music has shaped and impacted the music industry, musical trends and pop culture. Starting with Thomas Edison and the phonograph phonograph: see record player. phonograph or record player Instrument for reproducing sounds. A phonograph record stores a copy of sound waves as a series of undulations in a wavy groove inscribed on its rotating surface by the , the book travels through the birth of multi-track recording, the war between the Cassette and the CD, all the way to the digital revolution, the issues surrounding downloading music and Apple's iTunes. PR Contact: Dan Forman 212-333-7728 x 130 dan@susanblondinc.com Ty Roberts joined Gracenote (formerly CDDB (CD DataBase) An online music database service from Gracenote, Emeryville, CA (www.gracenote.com). Developed in the mid-1990s by Ti Kan and Steve Sherf and officially known as MusicID, the CDDB is widely used to find album and song titles for the tracks on a CD. ) in November of 1998 when Gracenote acquired ION, a multimedia and music technology company that he founded in 1993. Roberts serves as Gracenote's chief strategist, providing technology direction and overseeing the creation of products and services that leverage the power of the Gracenote database to deliver multimedia content to consumers. He is Gracenote's representative to the Secure Digital Music Initiative Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) was a forum formed in late 1998, comprised of more than 200 IT, consumer electronics, security technology, ISP and recording industry companies, ostensibly with the purpose of developing technology specifications that protected the (SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) A set of rules for securely distributing digital music over the Internet. Announced in February 1999, it is backed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Sony, Warner, BMG, EMI and Universal, the top five ), organization that is chartered with establishing standards for digital music and music playing devices. He is an expert in digital music, multimedia, software development, internet technology and peer-to-peer networks. PR Contact: Ross Blanchard 510-849-2332 x304 ross@gracenote.com ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/. |
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