The music business is experiencing a recession where record sales are reaching all-time lows. All record companies have in the last few years experienced a considerable decrease in sales. Finding the cause or causes of this has naturally become a major concern for all of them. Some blame the recession in the West in general, but that can hardly explain why one industry is losing out so much more than others. Music today is less from the heart than it used to be only ten years ago. It is mostly a purely commercial product to be used up and thrown...
you would need an application program or hard disk authorization available only on the CD. If the customers start visiting the home page more frequently the record companies also have an excellent opportunity to market miscellaneous merchandise and even other artists. That would be extremely desirable in times of a decreasing market.

If people feel they are paying too much for a CD and the price cannot be lowered there is only one solution: the product must be enhanced! In order for record companies to survive into the next century it is time for them to evolve.