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# Survey: Is Merchandise Helping To Offset Lower Recorded Music Sales?
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/survey-is-merchandise-helping-to-offset-lower-recorded-music-sales/
- Published: 2010-11-02T12:11:00.000Z
- Updated: 2010-11-02T12:11:00.000Z
- Description: As sales of recorded music have fallen, the importance of merchandise sales has grown for most artists as well as many record labels. But with the world economy stalled and. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/11/survey-is-merchandise-helping-to-offset-lower-recorded-music-sales.h
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As sales of recorded music have fallen, the importance of merchandise sales has grown for most artists as well as many record labels. But with the world economy stalled and ticket prices soaring, are merchandise sales really helping to fill the income gap? To find out, Hypebot is asking readers to share how they are doing merchandise sales with a very quick 4 question survey. You can also help spread the word about the survey with a tweets, links, Likes, Diggs and Stumbles. And share more about your personal experiences in the comments section. We'll publish the results in a few days.

**UPDATE: Read The Survey Results [Here](https://www.hypebot.com/survey-is-merchandise-helping-to-offset-lower-recorded-music-sales/).**

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