Support Your Reggae Artists!
Mike
Recording Companies Danger of Shutting Down, Citing Illegal Mix and
Bootleg
CDs
Miami, FL, USA
Major recording companies in the Reggae Industry have stated that they
will soon have to shut their doors due to a drop in sales, a nose-dive
drop in sales. There have been some estimates that are as high as ninety
percent drop in sales. Most of the producers blame first and foremost
the sudden rise in the illegal mix CDs and Bootleg CDs that are being
sold on the streets.
According to one producer this is the only music genre where
approximately 50% of all CDs sold comprise of these iIllegal mix CDs and
Bootleg CDs.
Illegal mix compact discs are normally characterized by holding about 30
or more (as much as 80) songs on the same one CD, all mixed and these
CDs might be sold for US$8.00 to US$10.
Unfortunately normally these persons who sell these discs do not have
any arrangement with either the artists or producers of the songs for
there to be some kind of compensation being made to the individuals who
actually made the music. The bootleg CD is an actually copy of the CD
that is made and sold to people.
So Beres Hammond releases a CD a costumer buys the CD, for say $14.00
(US) (out of this $14 the artist, retailer, producer, writer and
distributor must get paid), takes the CD and makes CD copies of these
CDs at probably a cost of (US) $1.00 a CD, then he/she sells it for say
$5.00 (US) which he/she can afford to sell it for because only the
customer who bought the original CD is being paid. The average customer
on the other hand will of course want to buy the less expensive of the
product.
Artists and producers in the industry are now calling for unity for all
the producers to come together to firght this problem. For, as according
to Prince head of sales for Germain Music (formally Penthouse)
“if something is not done soon, nobody will be making music for
they will no longer be able to sustain a livelihood from this.
Ras Mikael Enoch
M774Un...@webtv.net says...
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>jamaicans.com:
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>Recording Companies Danger of Shutting Down, Citing Illegal Mix and
>Bootleg
>CDs
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>Miami, FL, USA
>
>Major recording companies in the Reggae Industry have stated that they
>will soon have to shut their doors due to a drop in sales, a nose-dive
How awful !
Yeah,
and Al Kaatz the enslaver, the co-perpetrator to
this horrendous crime, the acceptability of
bootlegging, piracy.
Al Kaatz, Roosevelt Avenue, Seattle, Washington,
the help he lent in the destruction of the reggae
industry. Al Kaatz, all while attacking, mocking,
ridiculing labels like Heartbeat.
Al Kaatz,
The fact that he played a conspiratorial part in
the elimination of InI off the radio is enough
alone for InI...
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Ras Mikael Enoch
http://www.rasmikaelenoch.com