Good News From the Music Industry

I've long wondered how rap and hip-hop "music" has managed to survive as long as it has, and now maybe the music buyers of the world have finally awakened to the social destruction caused by much of the rap/hip-hop genre (h/t Captain Ed):

Confronted with haemorrhaging sales, the most assertive popular music movement since the Sex Pistols has lost its swagger and is suffering a crisis of confidence.

This year rap and hip-hop sales are down 33 per cent, double the decline of the CD album market overall, which is under pressure from music download sites such as iTunes, where fans can buy individual songs.

In 2006, rap sold 59.1 million albums, down 21 per cent from 2005. Not one rap album made the American top 10 sellers of the year - a list headed by the saccharine tunes of the soundtrack to Disney's made-for-television High School Musical. The bad boys of rap are now trailing the cowboys of country and the headbangers of heavy metal. ...

Rap has been deserted by many white fans and middle-class blacks, apparently tiring of the "gangsta" attitude to women, racism, violence and bling - the gold rings and medallions that have made hip-hop a byword for vulgarity.

All we need now is a "Rap Sucks" night just like the "Disco Sucks" night in the 70's that spelled the end for disco music. Just be sure and use a metal detector that night.