BUYCDs!!

Not only in Japan, the recession of record market is attacking every country. More and more people do not buy CDs but download from the Internet. In fact, it is a crisis for singers because their income is most from CD selling.

In recent 10 years, Japan's CD market continually decreasing.(you can take a look on the pic above.) In Japan, people have a lot of ways to get music, such as downloading from Internet buy paying some money or buying the newest music by cellphone. It seems that people still support their favorite singers in a different way, but it caused many record manufacturer going to be broken.

Because of this serious phenomenon, some young singers made a plan to arise people's attention to this problem. It is called "BUYCDs". They want to invite some singers to make a CD called BUYCDs and convey their concepts.

One of the originator said, "It is not interesting to get music by digital ways."

According to the research of Japan Record Association, the CD sales volume in 1999 was 5512 hundred million Japanese dollars. However, in 2008, it was only 905 hundred million Japanese dollars. On the other hand, the sales volume of music downloading was increasing from 342 hundred million Japanese dollars in 2005 to 905 hundred million Japanese dollars in 2008. It caused that some singers do not release CDs but offer digital music.

I don't know what you think about this, but for me, I think we should buy CDs to support our favorite singers. Although downloading is also a way to support them, but it is just like what the originator said, "buying digital music is boring." In a CD, you get not only the music but also the pretty cover and the delicate lyrics book. If you download, you can get nothing but just some low quality of songs.



PS, the picture is from PTT.