But at this price of just over the pirated price, we can sell 30,000 to 40,000 copies. The sale was not good at such a high price. Earlier it was very hard to achieve the sales target of 4,000 to 6,000 copies at the usual price of Kyat 1,000 to 1,500. "This method is successful and we are getting a new market. To cope with the price disparity, a recent album of J Nyi Nyi's 'The Best Songs' was sold at just Kyat 350," Pearl Recording in Rangoon said. The usual price of an original VCD/DVD is Kyat 1,000 to 1,500 but the pirated CDs are sold at just Kyat 300 to 500. The prices are falling and we cannot make profits," rocker Zaw Win Htut said. Currently, the music industry is not a seller's market. The producers and singers have a lesser role in marketing now. "We cannot meet production costs let alone profit. The sale of pirated CDs affects the creation of artistes and causes losses to producers, a producer said. We are now living with hope for tomorrow," the famous rocker Zaw Win Htut said. We cannot switch to other business at this age. We have devoted all our life to this business and career. But economically it is not viable," singer and song writer Saung Oo Hlaing said. Some singers performed in concerts promoting the sale of their music albums in VCDs. We could do nothing in the last two to three years. "The music industry in Burma has almost ground to a halt because of the pirated CDs.
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