Read this article on the BBC web site

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4923312.stm

 

 

 

 

 

no shocks that old folk buy more new CDs, have you seen the state of the album charts (excepting the sale stuff) all daniel o donnel and all these popera singers!

 

terrible!

I don't understand how they work out all those percentages?! how do they tell the difference between a 16 year old girl & a 60 year old woman buying a westlife CD??! does the guy in HMV tick a box each time he serves a customer?! :lol:

Edited April 20, 200619 yr by Rikrokk

Interesting topic on the right of the BBC website

 

on

 

 

Mobile downloads hit the charts by Jonathan Fildes

With download albums coming available, the easy listening albums for the voer 40s should do less well future :P

Edited April 20, 200619 yr by Joey Deacon

IMHO it is straight forward.

 

Younger people have less of a moral obligation to go out and buy music - either via legal downloads or physically. They also have less money, so are more likely to "illegally" download music as opposed to older people.

 

Also remember that the late 1970s & the first half of the 1980s were the biggest selling era ever for record sales worldwide, so those kids then, are now in their 30s - so they are still most likely to be sustaining the music industry. (I'm one of them!) :lol:

thisispop

 

you hit on something there. its called the 'demographic'.

ie there are more people in the 30-55 age group than any others.

so in the sixties and seventies, it was teenagers who were the biggest group. I remember being amazed in the late seventies, at the fact the stranglers drummer was 30!, that seemed really old at the time to be in a new wave band!. now its probably quite young :)

now they have grown up, they have been buying music most of thier lives and now represent a considerable market force.

There are less teenagers around these days, so their contribution is less than it used to be.

Edited April 21, 200619 yr by Olympus

(I'm one of them!) :lol:

 

Me too :lol:

 

Me too :lol:

 

And me!!