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State of Music Industry in Japan




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isaacada1



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 12:46 pm Reply with quote
JETRO's report about the Japanese Music Industry.
http://www.jetro.go.jp/en/market/trend/industrial/pdf/jem0406-2e.pdf

Thoughts?
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Gauss



Joined: 22 Oct 2004
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 3:38 pm Reply with quote
Enlightening. Sales and profits seem to be down across the board by 25% since the peak in 1999. Interesting to see the effect of changing trends. Piracy does get some blame but is not singled out as the main problem. A rather levelheaded report I would say.

The export section was really surprising. How the heck did tiny Austria manage to become the second largest importer of Japanese music after the USA? I guess there must be some major company located there which sells/distributes the CDs inside the EU market.
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