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[W9TR]

Is that a graph of record industry profits?

[JMAC]

I think so. I guess that's why Joe Bonamassa tours so much that his slogan is “Always on the Road”. He tours the US and Europe, what, 10 months of the year?

__He's 40 now and has been playing professionally since he was 12 and opened 20+ times during summer vacation for BB. For those who don't know.


_________Tribute to BB king: That's young Joe you hear at the very beginning....pics of BB when he was young & svelte!..A keeper clip IMHO.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Nc2IuQ1YE


Just noticed for the first time that BB signed his guitar. You can bet he'd still have that, even if he wasn't known as a guitar geek's guitar geek.




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[Still-One]

Originally Posted by W9TR

Is that a graph of record industry profits?

That may be artist profits but recording industry profits are significantly up the last couple of years due to income from streaming.

In what's now become a familiar story, the U.S. recorded music industry has seen revenue growth accelerate again in the first half of 2017, up 17 percent over the first half of last year to $4.0 billion, according the the RIAA's 2017 mid-year report. That's more than double the percent increase the RIAA reported at this time last year, when the industry was up 8.1 percent over the first half of 2015 to $3.43 billion.

And once again, the main driver of that growth is streaming -- more specifically, paid streaming subscriptions. The average number of paid subscribers to services like Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal over the period ballooned to 30.4 million, up 50 percent from the 20.2 million in the first half of 2016. That's both a record high for the U.S. and a growth of 1 million new subscriptions per month over the prior year, noted RIAA senior vp strategic data analysis Josh Friedlander.

Overall, total digital revenue accounted for $3.2 billion -- or 84 percent of the total industry value -- an increase of 21 percent over the first half of 2016 and $1 billion more than digital raked in as recently as 2013. Of the total $4.0 billion market, 62 percent of revenue came from streaming ($2.5 billion, up 48 percent); 19 percent from digital downloads ($757 million, down 24 percent); 16 percent from physical ($632 million, down one percent) and three percent from synch revenue.

[slowGEEZR]

Looks like the loudness wars, showing decrease in dynamic range, to me.

[JMAC]

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[cma29]

Originally Posted by PHC1

Originally Posted by W9TR

Is that a graph of record industry profits?

Originally Posted by slowGEEZR

Looks like the loudness wars, showing decrease in dynamic range, to me.

Graph shows Peak-to-Loudness dB ratio over time. According to that data, we are now in the "awful" sound period. 1984 was the peak for audio quality in terms of this ratio.

[Antonmb]

Originally Posted by JMAC

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And then there was the 2CV, what my father used to call “the flying lunchbox.”

[JMAC]

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