What is Destroying the Music Industry?

I have my own ideas about what might or might not be be "destroying" the Music Industry, but in this as in other areas of life, when I Don't Know something for sure, I turn to the oracle of our era...

Google.

Here are the top fifty results from the day I asked...

What is Destroying the Music Industry?

1. Pro tools
2. Music licensing
3. TV talent shows
4. An ‘X’ Factor
5. Hard-core dance floor music
6. Silicon village hippies
7. Pink
8. The Internet (interview with Sir Elton John)*
9. From the Inside
10. Loudness wars
11. The RIAA
12. YouTube bands
13. The RIAA
14. Apple
15. The Internet (interview with Sir Elton John)
16. IPod
17. The Internet (interview with Sir Elton John)
18. The Internet (interview with Sir Elton John)
19. The fast food generation
20. Technology
21. The USA
22. The Internet (interview with Sir Elton John)
23. The Internet (interview with Sir Elton John)
24. Paris Hilton
25. The Internet (interview with Sir Elton John)
26. Napster return engagement
27. The Internet (interview with Sir Elton John)
28. The Chill Room The A-Infos Radio Project
29. IPod
30. The RIAA nominated by the Record Store Owners **
31. The Chill Room The A-Infos Radio Projec
32. Club 9 Per Cent Taiwan
33. Amplifiers
34. Neil Lairson (self-nominated)
35. The Internet (interview with Sir Elton John)
36. The Chill Room The A-Infos Radio Project
37. The RIAA nominated by the Record Store Owners
38. The RIAA nominated by the Record Store Owners
39. The Internet (interview with Sir Elton John)
40. The Internet (interview with Sir Elton John)
41. “They”
42. The RIAA nominated by the Record Store Owners
43. The RIAA nominated by the Record Store Owners
44. The Internet (interview with Sir Elton John)
45. The RIAA nominated by the Record Store Owners
46. Drummers
47. The Internet (interview with Sir Elton John)
48. The RIAA nominated by the Record Store Owners
49. The Internet (interview with Sir Elton John)
50. The RIAA nominated by the Record Store Owners

* these are all references to the same newspaper article, syndicated on different websites.

** again, the same article drawn from a press release by the Record Store Owners of America.

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