If I am not mistaken (and I might be, will find out soon).  My best mate is on that list...   funny.  very funny.  Thanks.

QuoteI think they are still out exploring and finding new music in numbers, just not through the old channels.

They are in that sense. But what I meant is they aren't spending *money* on *recorded* music. As a teenager, every single person I knew spent a little to a lot of money buying recorded music. Now most people I know, especially younger people, spend little to nothing on it. Sure they are "exploring" but quite often by simply sharing music they don't pay for, which gets back to the shift from live music as the loss leader to recorded music becoming the loss leader.

The "problem" with that for artists is that live doesn't scale in the way recorded does. So it becomes almost unthinkable to have a return to the music scene of the 1960s and 1970s.

Variety: "Music sales continued their free-fall during the first six months of 2014, as both albums and digital downloads again showed double-digit losses."

http://variety.com/2014/music/news/music-sales-fall-albums-digital-downloads-losses-1201257795/

>double-digit losses

Wow!

Labels and RIAA flipping out I'm guessing?

>double-digit

Back about ten years ago, i was at a state tourism meeting where they were alarmed about a 7% annual decline in hunting (hunting & fishing licenses pay the bills for many free tourism attractions). Rightly so, fast-forward to last year ....I think I saw 3 or 4 hunters.

At a low double-digit rate, say 12%, the market evaporates in about 8 years.

Music is GROWING !

Just not commercially.

Indigenous music is dying, although folk music in europe is experiencing a reboot.

Definitely not dying.