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# Overheard At Music 2.0
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/overheard_at_mu/
- Published: 2007-02-01T07:10:50.000Z
- Updated: 2007-02-01T07:10:50.000Z
- Description: "There is a lot of concern about CD sales dropping off a cliff at some point, and digital potentially not being able to grow fast enough to offset that…We’re going. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2007/02/overheard_at_mu.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Major Labels, Music Marketing, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:06

> "There is a lot of concern about CD sales dropping off a cliff at some  
> point, and digital potentially not being able to grow fast enough to  
> offset that…We’re going to have to get good at all of these ancillary revenue streams and see what works." – **David Ring of Universal Music**  
> **eLabs.**

"We could monetize file-sharing tomorrow, but it would just be one small part of the puzzle" **– Ken Bun of Hollywood Records**

> "There is this (revenue) huge gap that won’t be made up…And if it is filled, the  
> labels won’t be around anyway." **– Fred Goldring of lawfirm Goldring, Hertz, Lichtenstein.**

"…We are very much in lockstep  
with the industry…If that is a major shift in what \[the labels\] have  
experienced with our competitor, that’s good. We’re trying to build  
this together." **– Chris Stephenson of Microsoft.**

*From the Music 2.0 Conference yesterday in LA.*

*Sources: [Mp3.com](http://www.mp3.com/news/stories/8482.html?ref=hypebot.com), [DMN](http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/013107label/view?ref=hypebot.com)*