RAP is dying

~~i get high sometimes~~ · 08-31-2007, 03:37 PM

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now since all percentages must add to 100% that means when one goes down another goes up. so lets say rap falls 10% and the others each raise 5%.
rap = 40% total market sales
rock = 30% total maket sales
others = 30% total market sales

You MUST know that you've got this wrong.

When it says that rap music sales have decline by X%, it looks at the average sales for that genre (100%) and compares it to the sales from today. It isn't comparing it to the percentage of other genres out of 100. I guess you had to include this for your argument to make any semblance of sense though.

joyboyo53 · 08-31-2007, 03:45 PM

"While music-industry sales have plummeted, no genre has fallen harder than rap. According to the music trade publication Billboard, rap sales have dropped 44% since 2000 and declined from 13% of all music sales to 10%. Artists who were once the tent poles at rap labels are posting disappointing numbers. Jay-Z's return album, Kingdom Come, for instance, sold a gaudy 680,000 units in its first week, according to Billboard. But by the second week, its sales had declined some 80%. This year rap sales are down 33% so far."

ONCE AGAIN i must post this

Sparky · 09-01-2007, 10:22 AM

scratch what i said earlier,

Rap is done :-/

anticipation · 09-01-2007, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by matious

scratch what i said earlier,

Rap is done :-/

pussy gettin' pussy.

aint nothing wrong with dat, yo.

Sparky · 09-01-2007, 10:46 AM

heres the gangsta version yo'

Feidler · 09-01-2007, 09:23 PM

Rap will never DIE. No music exists outside of a culture that relates to it. To say rap is dying is to say all the people who love it are dying as well. Aint happening

joyboyo53 · 09-02-2007, 01:30 PM

i obviously did not mean it will no longer exist, just that it is dying out

08-31-2007, 03:45 PM	#12 (permalink)
joyboyo53 down the rabbit hole Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: the mountain called monkey Posts: 764	"While music-industry sales have plummeted, no genre has fallen harder than rap. According to the music trade publication Billboard, rap sales have dropped 44% since 2000 and declined from 13% of all music sales to 10%. Artists who were once the tent poles at rap labels are posting disappointing numbers. Jay-Z's return album, Kingdom Come, for instance, sold a gaudy 680,000 units in its first week, according to Billboard. But by the second week, its sales had declined some 80%. This year rap sales are down 33% so far." ONCE AGAIN i must post this

09-01-2007, 10:22 AM	#13 (permalink)
Sparky not really Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 5,223	scratch what i said earlier, Rap is done :-/

09-01-2007, 10:46 AM	#15 (permalink)
Sparky not really Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 5,223	heres the gangsta version yo'

09-01-2007, 09:23 PM	#16 (permalink)
Feidler Groupie Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 3	Rap will never DIE. No music exists outside of a culture that relates to it. To say rap is dying is to say all the people who love it are dying as well. Aint happening

09-02-2007, 01:30 PM	#17 (permalink)
joyboyo53 down the rabbit hole Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: the mountain called monkey Posts: 764	i obviously did not mean it will no longer exist, just that it is dying out