Question and Answer for Q7

Question7, In the long run, streaming services are good tools for indies musicians, because it is possible for them to get known by more people via streaming services. Actually, statistics showed that people know new music and  musicians on the web page.Therefore, we don’t always deny it. Depending on how to use it,   it is very useful.  What do you think of it?

Answer: I think Streaming services are good tools for indies musicians, because if they contribute their music to streaming services cites, and people like their song, it is possible to get attention by people and their dream come true.  
Recently, Taylor Swift wrote her opinion about streaming services on her tumblr page, because Apple music were going to sale some musicians' songs for free. <http://taylorswift.tumblr.com/post/122071902085/to-apple-love-taylor> "To apple, Love Taylor" Web, July 13th, 2015       She told about this issue that "This is about the new artist or band that has just released their first single and will not be paid for its success. This is about the young songwriter who just got his or her first cut and thought that the royalties from that would get them out of debt." She mention and care about newcomer artists. After I read this article, I thought streaming services are really good to get known by more people, because people who often listen to music using streaming services want to get latest music information as soon as possible.

How do we deal with the problem of the issue? How should we use them legally?
<http://www.stopillegaldownload.jp/faq.html> "違法ダウンロードの刑事罰対処について"
This sites shows what is illegal download,so please check it out and think about the issue.

Miki

Question and Answer for Q6

Question6, What images of streaming services do you have?

 I have good images of streaming services. I think streaming services are really good tools for us, but fewer Japanese people know about streaming services than foreigners. What is the reason? Mikirou Enomoto, who is an expert of music mentioned the reason. <http://nikkan-spa.jp/513538> ”音楽ストリーミング配信が日本で広がらない理由” Also, it is true that there are people who use streaming services in a wrong way. Therefore, people may well have a bad image of them.

However, there are streaming services cites which get definite money from people, so not all of the services is illegal. Though we have to pay money for some cites, it's not so expensive. In contrast, when we buy CDs, we sometimes pay a lot of money. For example, iTunes cost us only 250 yen to buy the one piece. 

Additionally, we can use them anytime we want as far as we have a computer device or electronic equipments. we can listen to music or watch videos on the train or bus and even on the street while walking. Streaming services are really useful.

"正解１４の音楽ストリーミングサービス徹底比較。結局どれがいいの？”<http://neroaoyama.com/14-music-streaming-service>Web, July, 23rd, 2015 
This cites is written about 14 types of streaming services cites, and compared. It shows the cost, how to use Streaming services and their advantage.


Miki Enomto

Question and Answer for Q5

Question5: What is the good points of these two(streaming services and CDs)?

Answer: <Good points of CDs>
             People who buy CD like its format and its quality of sounds. Though they need some space to keep them, people are likely to enjoy collecting. These days, recording company started to sale CDs with added benefits such as posters, tickets, and special videos and more. For example, one of the most famous Japanese idle, AKB48 sale CDs with tickets which they can meet the members of the group.  Another example is that J soul Brothers sold their CD with invitation to the back-stage of their performance.
"なぜ日本人は未だにCDを買い続けるのか”<http://jp.vice.com/program/noisey/7961>Web, July 22nd, 2015

            <Good points of Streaming services>
 These days, more and more people use streaming services. There are 3
reasons I want to suggest.
Firstly, it is really easy to get songs. By one click, we can get our favorite songs and don't have to pay money frequently even if we buy them many times.
Secondly, before we decide to buy them, it is possible to have the record played. Moreover, though the record companies are going to sale them as an album, we can choose the one piece form it.
The last one is that compared with the CDs we don't have to create space for keeping them. We can save songs as data in our computer device or electric equipment.
”ストリーミング配信のメリット”<http://happiness-oki.com/cdxckr/03.html>
Web,July 22nd, 2015


Miki Enomoto

Survey Summary(International)

 First of all, I would like to say thank you to all respondents who make time for cooperating with our survey. 32 people answered questions. Your answers were very useful materials for us. Thank you very much. Now, I want to share and summarize the results of our survey.

 In our survey, We could know about peoples' present music life.
All respondents said they like music and about 93% of people listen to it every day. At least they listen to music once a week. From these answers, we could know that music is really familiar for us and it catch on our life deeply. We think this is because technology have been developing.
 Therefore we asked people whether they have iPod or Walkman. To this question, 85.71% of people said yes. In other words, they put music into iPod, Walkman and some sort of electronic equipment, and they seem to carry them when they go out.
 Next, we got interested in where they listen to music. Most people likely to do it on the train. Some people listen to music while walking. Almost all people who cooperated with our survey are students, so we expected that they go to school, go work and go back home listening to music.
 How do they get latest music information? They got new information from the Internet. Some people say that they often pay attention to suggestion on YouTube page, twitter or other music sites. Young people always tend to catch up with something new. Therefore they always check music sites.

 Through our survey, we could learn music is really necessary for our daily life. People don't listen to music using electronic equipment alternative to CD deck.
The more technology will develop, the more our music life will change.

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We are investigating your music life. Please fill out a questionnaire.

thank you.

Good Web Site for the Research

I would like to recommend "STATISTIA" which is the site giving us many information and data.
http://www.statista.com/

A page that is not useful.

I found out a site that can not be trusted. This site says that there is a debate over streaming services between consumers and artist. There are two reasons why I think so. First reason is unsuitable example. This blog mentioned about Swedish artist as an example. But it is hard to imagine that issues about streaming services are big problem for famous artist around the world, because this Swedish artist is not famous so much. Second one is a link. URL is putted on the web, but you can not jump to a homepage at the link destination.
Therefor I can not trust this site.










 http://www.alymysto.com/2009/08/13/artist-opinion-from-sweden-i%E2%80%99d-rather-be-raped-by-pirate-bay-than-go-with-spotify/