Indies band together to stem UK music store decline
 Physical music sales - such as CDs - have been falling in recent years |
An online database of the UK's remaining independent record stores has been launched in an effort to stem a decline in the sector.
The rising popularity of digital music is one factor that has hit the sector - of the 150m singles sold in the UK last year, 98% were downloads.
Indierecordshop will help people find their local store and showcase what it can offer, such as in-store gigs.
The website has been built and sponsored by Digitalstores and is supported by the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). ( copyed directly from the bbc web page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8512404.stm )
This article shows how purchasing online music is becoming increasingly popular apposed to the original way of purchasing music via music stores . The indie genre has been a major influence on streaming music through the Internet as most unsigned indie band start by uploading their music to myspace and using the Internet as a way of getting their music heard. It is also a cheap way of distributing music which indie bands usually pref because they are working on a low budget as they are their only source of finance.
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