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NMPA INTERNATIONAL SURVEY TWELTH EDITION COUNTRY PROFILE: MEXICO “It’s easier to buy an illegal album than the legitimate product,” AMPROFON general director Fernando Hernández told Billboard.“While pirates are selling over 100 million pirated CDs and cassettes,we barely sell 50 million.And beyond the economic impact,we’re losing our country’s musical culture,which has given us international renown.Why? Because labels don’t have the resources to invest in local product. We’ve noticed a 50% reduction in rosters. Especially with local labels whose entire investment is in Mexico.” As an example, leading regional Mexican label Disa has dropped nearly 30 acts from its roster in each of the past two years,and signing two or three new acts per year,as opposed to 15-20 in years past. Anti-piracy activists both within and without Mexico warn, however, that implementing the new legislation will be difficult.An article in Mexico’s leading daily newspaper, Reforma, noted that there are only 50 agents working in the Organized Crime Special Unit,which investigates all organized criminal activity in the country.AMPROFON, however, maintains that the state attorney’s office is working to establish a specialized unit that will only deal with industrial and intellectual property crimes. Meanwhile,the combination of piracy and the worldwide economic downturn were blamed for the November closings of two Mexican independent labels, Generamúsica and Azteca Music. Currently Mexico’s legitimate market is almost completely CD;the format accounted for 50 million of the total 56.8 million units sold in 2002, according to IFPI, followed by cassettes at 6.5 million and LPs at 0.1 million.Music video sales are still restricted to VHS,although the sector is exploding: 2002’s units were up 278% to 859.5 million, with a corresponding increase in value of 207.7% to 160.2 thousand pesos ($16.6 thousand). Mexican music retailing is dominated by small independent retailers and street vendors and market stalls.Tower Records, facing a fiscal crisis of its own, has announced that it will sell its four Mexican stores to local music chain Mixup,which will license the Tower brand.All four Tower stores, located in Mexico City,were opened in 1989 as part of a joint venture with local businessman David West. Operations of both Tower and Mixup will be supervised by Mixup founder and head Isaac Massry, who says the Tower outlets will remain distinct from Mixup stores, who said the only anticipated change will be centralized buying to provide better pricing. Department stores and supermarkets also maintain a healthy portion of the Mexican retail market, with the Aurrera and Commercial Mexicana chains selling music at discounted prices and US-based retailers Wal-Mart and K-Mart increasing their presence in the nation. In March 2003 came word that the Mexican music business was undertaking another of its periodic crackdowns on “carridos”—popular Mexican songs whose subject are often drug dealers and gangsters. Some radio stations have refused to play songs that allegedly glorify violence and corruption. In November 2002, the Mexican recording industry held its first-ever Oye! (Listen!) National Music Awards. AMPROFON,which helped organize the awards,hopes the annual event will be telecast jointly on Mexico’s two networks, Televisa and TV Azteca, and that the show will generate enough income to create an antipiracy fund. “Currently Mexico’s legitimate market is almost completely CD; the format accounted for 50 million of the total 56.8 million units sold in 2002, according to IFPI” 32
Year in Review: NMPA and the Music Publishing Industry The past year was another industrious one for the National Music Publishers’ Association, Inc. (NMPA) and its affiliated licensing organization, The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. (HFA). Both groups were busy with a far-ranging variety of issues. NMPA INTERNATIONAL SURVEY TWELTH EDITION THE YEAR IN REVIEW: NMPA AND THE MUSIC PUBLISHING INDUSTRY 33
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