Fifty million Americans are illegally file-sharing billions of songs on the Internet daily. ... For example, Daniel Bedingfield has had the top three song on the radio "Gotta Get Thru This" for several months. ... The mutli-platinum rapper 50 Cent supports this theory, "I believe word of mouth is just gonna generate more sales .". ... It pressures the musician's creativity to create better quality songs because consumers now can hear the album before it is released in stores. ...

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No matter what your genre from country to rap, from rock to gospel, the internet is the place to get it. ... In a study of consumers twelve to forty-four, people that had downloaded more than 100 songs said that their CD purchases declind by 61 %. ... Her song would be played in Foot Locker across the United States. ... Every song off the album Play by Moby, was included in commercial nationwide. The majority of Worldwide President, David Renzer, company revenues has come from synch-licensing his songs for commercials. ...

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., rock, rock and roll, hip-hop, grunge, heavy metal, rhythm and blues, punk, soul, techno, funk, rap, house). ... The Tin Pan Alley era initially specialized in ballads and novelty songs but later began to incorporate popular styles of the period, including ragtime, jazz, and blues. ... Adorno contends that the standardization of popular songs leads to compliant consumers because songs are heard in accordance with other standardized popular songs. Essentially, popular songs do their listening for them. ... In the 1980's and 1990's, sampling technologies and digitization led to the e...

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When you buy a Jay-Z song on iTunes, you'd think that you're paying Jay-Z to have his song. ... The artists are required to put the label's name on every song or skit released publicly and must pay a percentage of all income to the record label.  ... Record labels chastise fans for illegally downloading songs because it is stealing, but are they not stealing from their artists?  ...

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Each individual song can be up to 50-60 MB each (Jones). Have fun trying to trade a 50 MB song with a friend over the internet. "Hey Billy, I just got the latest Daft Punk song! ... Its competition was two rappers, Mystikal and Nelly, and the punk rock band Green Day. ... Besides, if the user could only download, say, one or two songs from one album, and they liked those songs, it is entirely conceivable that they would buy the album, instead of wasting precious time downloading even more tracks. ...

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