WHY ARE RAP AND HIP-HOP MUSIC SALES IN DECLINE? [+] ballot by _Beelzebubba ACTIVE Fri Aug 24, 07 - Sat Aug 23, 08 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. -- Time Magazine Even with the media blitz and constant hype that these so-called artists receive, sales are plummeting. How can this be possible? U JUSS A HATA! U NO U WUN 2 BE PART OF IT 24/7!!! More people are realizing they are mostly a bunch of clowns. Just you wait. Fiddy and Kanye be dropping da bomb on da 9/11. It got stale. MP3 downloading and piracy are taking away from sales. Racism. Rap and hiphop were never music in the first place even idiots now know how to work p2p software Their fifteen minutes of fame is up Just a temporary decline - it will grow much more. Lack of recent innovation within the genre Ballot #117306 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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