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Originally Posted by Delirium-Zer0
I don't think it's mp3s. Japan has had CD rentals for aaaggges, so people could make MD and tape copies of cds if they wanted. It's not piracy. It's definitely the economy there. I bet if you look it up, sales of personal electronics and games are probably down too.
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A part of the reason is also the decline in number of teens and youth which were the core consumers of bubblegum pop/popular music and culture. As the population ages, CD sales decline. Old people buy less music.
Right now, the japanese economy is considered to have one of it's most promising years in a long time, but CD sales this year aren't as great.
CD sales haven't ever been as high as in the 90's, and might not ever get back up, as legal downloads and not so legal downloads are getting more common. CD is definetly outdated in some ways, like the LP became outdated by the introduction of CDs. Of course, the sales of virtually any goods, including CDs may increase in China, but as chinese wealth raises, it will probably have more impact on the amount legal downloads than on the CD's sales as Cd's will e old news already.
If the sales are to incease elsewhere, the birthrate will have to go up, or some music shopping craze must hit the older generation, and that will probably rather increase the sales of enka.
