In the first installment of a three-part series on the future of music, MTV takes a look back at what went wrong and when.
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Make no mistake about it, 2007 was a b-a-a-a-d year for the industry. According to Nielsen SoundScan, album sales were down 15 percent from 2006 (a trend that's continued for eight straight years now); big-name artists jumped ship in increasingly complicated — and messy — ways; and the powers-that-be seemed to get even more heartless and disconnected, thanks to a series of lawsuits, feuds and terrible decisions.
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The Year The Industry Broke - News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV News