In an op-ed for The Wrap:

“The modern music company is an increasingly diversified, full-service entertainment firm deriving revenues from a variety of different streams. The success of a new album is not simply based on unit sales, but the cumulative revenues earned from album and single track downloads, online music videos, ringtones and other mobile phone content, digital radio performance royalties, video games downloads and licensing fees, background music to television shows and films, audio streaming sites, and countless other ancillary revenue streams.”

The thing I find interesting about this quote is how casually Bainwol — head of the music lobbying group everyone loves to hate — mentions videogame downloads. Picture the RIAA even acknowledging such things as recently as three or four years ago.

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