You choose: Lingerie or CDs?
Corbett | September 18, 2003 11:14 AM
The music industry in Taiwan is pretty much on it's last leg. The market has been declining about 30% a year for the past 6 years. To get on the Tower Top 10 chart means you've sold over 10,000 CDs. If Missy Popstar can sell 30,000 units it's considered a huge hit. This used to be 300,000 units 6 years ago.
Today I read an eye opening article that reported the Taiwan's lingerie market has now reached sales of NT$25 billion.
What does this have to do with music? Well, according to the latest Taiwan music industry figures, the record companies might reach NT$5 billion this year if they're lucky. Taiwan people are spending five times more buying sexy underwear than music.
I guess this shows that Taiwanese are fairly practical consumers. When it comes down to deciding between: 1) hot chicks in sexy underwear, or 2) not-so-hot chicks singing crappy music, 5 out of 6 go for the underwear.
Hmmmm. Maybe I should make a career move.
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Lisa Liu
October 10, 2003 4:29 PM
guess so, goes for me too, especially under the current economy sitution.
if in case of a great tune: i can always use the search system to playback/repeat muted, or in addition use the live stereo system (blasting option available); all parties invovled r light and portable (the imagination and the vocal cords)...u pretty much dont leave home w/o it.
the tricky part of lingerie is that if one is stepping out to where (anywhere is everywhere) a dress code is required, one simply cannot just imagine the actual object onto ones body.