So here's an interesting question posited by David Edery in Steven Dubner's Freakonomics blog: Can guitar hero help save the music industry?
Some interesting 'statistics' from the article:
Weezer’s “My Name is Jonas,” a song originally released in 1994, saw a tenfold increase in sales when included in Guitar Hero 3.
Songs from The Who’s greatest hits released for Rock Band, experienced a 159 percent increase in SoundScan sales.
A special guitar hero featuring Aerosmith’s music resulted in more revenue for the band than any individual Aerosmith album.
So if this is valuable 'free advertising' for the record industry, why would they still charge the software companies money to include their licensed songs?
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