Ian Rogers sees the Drop of Value of CD Sales and Says: "I don't care"

The Grammy MusicTech Summit 2008 started with a keynote speech delivered by a music passionate, Ian C Rogers (see picture below), that you can find on the Topspin blog.

Ian Rogers started by giving a quick presentation of himself to explain his fondness of music and his journey that led him to work for Topspin, a media technology company.

He continued by talking about the evolution of the music industry from physical CD to digital music. But he did not deplore the decrease of CD sales, on the contrary!

"Continuing to talk about the health of the music industry on these terms is as if we’d all been crying about the dying cassette business in 1995."

He then gave some figures to show that people's love for music is not declining and that people aren't unwilling to pay for it either. According to Ian Rogers, the music business now needs to focus more on the artists and the fans, which seems like an obvious fact although it hasn't become a reality yet.

So I invite you all to read the entire speech which is really inspiring to artists and a breath of fresh air for music fans. ;-)