Thursday, January 27, 2011

The Spanish music clings to 'streaming' to survive

A week after the international recording industry group (IFPI) published its annual report and brought to Spain as the country with more unlicensed content percentage of online music consumption, it has Promusicae, an entity that encompasses the majority of companies producers in Spain. And most importantly, the dramatic fall of 21% augured, is confirmed.

But some of the Spanish document detailed data reveal some interesting trends in buying music. The only section of the report is positive on the authorized streaming (listening system without downloading songs on the computer), which has risen 1711% over last year. In economic data that translates to going from a turnover of 500,000 euros to 9.4 million.

In fact, it is this increase that saves the digital market in Spain on a global basis, grew by 19% compared to 2009. For even authorized discharges (type purchase on iTunes) are saved from the fall (-24%). Clearly, the streaming is already present in the recording industry. The Spanish were spent on music authorized nearly 166.5 million euros versus 211 million last year.

On average, each Spanish for over 14 years gained less than half a record this year just ended. This ratio varies in advanced countries within three to four fish per person per year. For the president of Promusicae, Antonio Guisasola, bad news are marked by the so-called piracy and the absence to date of a law that protects artists and labels.

"The figures of the music as raw and bleak, show that the only law that has prevailed in Spain during the last ten years has been the Wild West. This has earned it all, we have plundered and unscrupulous rulers have been slow to realize the consequences of such carnage: a clear cultural impoverishment, the disappearance of our cultural identity and, above all, thousands of families, with names, deprived of their source of income.

" Less vinyls Another news is the end of the upward trend in the purchase of vinyl, which now falls by 8.5% in the loose disc release, but up, yes, 18% in selling compilations. And beyond the voluntarism of a gas station, one can say that the cassette format confirmed his death. In the category of best-selling album, 2010 was for Sergio Dalma and his album 'Way Dalma', followed by Joan Manuel Serrat and Alejandro Sanz.

In the section on best-selling song of onomatopoeia is the thing: the number 1 was the Waka Waka Shakira and two, the Run Run Estopa.

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