Statistics Of Music Videos

Technology for downloading music has change dramatically over the past few years making it easier for the public to access music files illegally and legally.

Downloading Music Illegally
By accessing certain music websites we are able to download copyright contents without permission. This is lowering shop sales and LEGAL download sales. From this statistic we can already see how easily illegal downloading is.
Also by downloading music illegally means the downloading process could take much longer than legal downloading. Illegal downloads also have the risk of running a virus within your computer leaving you with any unexpected consequences such as the computer running slowly, phishing, hacking, which could destroy any documentation or important products saved/ stored on your computer.

Downloading Music Legally
Again by accessing certain websites we are able to download copyright music legally, with permission. Websites who have authorisation to do this are iTunes, Napster, iMESH, eMusic, and many more. Downloading legally means you have to pay for the music product but everyone who have been involved in the music production of the music chosen gets a cut of the money made on it, whereas in illegal downloading you can get the music free and the people involved in the production don't get their fair share of money that should of been made on the music product.

• 95% of music downloads are unauthorised, with no payment to artists and producers

• One credible analysis by the Institute for Policy Innovation concludes that global music piracy causes $12.5 billion of economic losses every year, 71,060 U.S. jobs lost, a loss of $2.7 billion in workers' earnings, and a loss of $422 million in tax revenues, $291 million in personal income tax and $131 million in lost corporate income and production taxes.

-Web Page: http://www.riaa.com/physicalpiracy.php

To prevent the illegal statistics music videos need to become more recognised, for example, if the background music and the lyrics are catchy there’s obviously going to be lot of interest in the song, in order to get the attention on the music video it needs to be an amazing production, this will lower the statistic on downloading and increase positives, such as hits on YouTube and MTV viewers etc.

This will then lead into more profits and success as the band or solo could go on tours, sell merchandise and up their reputation, all this could happen from a music video that is well produced.