hmm, the music business may in fact be dead.

[Jondalar]

So, I just came across an article about the music business and it said that music sales are indeed down by over 50% from 10 years. Of course, the internet and digital music is to blame. But what gets me is that even artists that have hits on the radio can't even go platinum. Jordin Sparks was the winner of American Idol. A few years ago, she had her last worldwide hit with a great song called Battlefield. The song hit the top 10 in the U.S. but the album only managed to sale 177,000 in the u.s. I can't believe that. I download a couple of songs from that album, including a song I really liked called No Parade and I just assumed the album was going to platinum. It never even went gold. The music business is a sad state of affairs.