Music Business Back in the Spotlight (for now)

[Mulboyne]

Nippop.com: Japan's Music Industry Rebounds Strongly in September
Japan's packaged music industry got a welcome shot of adrenaline in September. Amid iTunes hype, strong mobile-based download sales, and a perplexing insistence on maintaining the saihan system...the Recording Industry of Japan reported September production value at 41.7 billion yen. This represents 30% year over year growth for September, and pulls year to date 2005 sales to within 3% of 2004...If the recent trend continues through Q4, there's a chance that 2005 industry sales will surpass those of 2004...more...

[Taro Toporific]

[American Oyaji]

LOL,
I read the first post on the main page and clicked the link to ask about the "saihan system" and I see Taro had already asked and answered the question