Klaus Frieler's Profile

-Of the 35,000 albums released last year by
the recording industry, less than 5000 sold over 1000 units.



-Since 1988 only 16 classical albums have sold more than a million
copies in the United States; five of them were put out by Victoria's
Secret.



-The source of most music listening hours is neither CDs nor radio;
it's video games.



-When pop star Sting needed a marketing partner for his 2000 album
release he chose Compaq Computer.



-"Ten years ago, rock musicians would never listen to dance
music and dance musicians would never listen to classical music.
Now, most of the rock musicians I know own samplers and most classical
composers I know also are listening to dance music." -- Moby




-Worldwide entertainment and media spending will reach $1.4 trillion
by 2006,

(PriceWaterhouseCoopers).