Music sales : I read the news online and magazine. Today, I read the article from Yahoo.co.jp, that article said, the music sales in Japan was $4.3 billion which is world most. The sales in the U.S. was the most. The sales in the U.S. was $4.1 billion, according to this article. It was surprising. I did not know recent music scene. Also I was suspicious which artist earn so much money. The structure of market is different. The music CD and data in the U.S. are sold online, that are relatively inexpensive, less profitable. But, CDs are sold well in Japan compare to the U.S. The CD sales in Japan also decreasing though.
I have never been to New York though, but like New York, A lot of young musicians in Tokyo are struggling to be known. They are trying to be special. But being special is difficult. Playing instruments very well is not enough, they have to create something worth listening. The agent who is working for music company always is looking for new talents. Everyone can not be professional musician, but I am sure so quite a few young talents are in Tokyo.
My study : By the way, my first paper in the U.S. has almost done. We are going to next paper. This next paper is study of orbital ordering. Orbital Ordering has been studied for long time, like 20 years? Physicists have accumulated so many studies, so I need to read a paper a lot. It is O.K. to read a lot of paper, but the problem is I have to confirm our analysis result is consistent with all of them. We need to study very carefully. I would like to finish this paper at least before summer end.
ESL : Today, I went to go ESL class, we are going to write final paper of this semester. I am going to write about multiferroics which is interplay between the magnetism and ferroelectricity in the material. I need to explain using simple term but I do not want to describe the phenomena wrongly. It is difficult, but it will be good practice understanding English. I am going to summarize the theoretical paper. I am going to claim the paper because the paper gave good suggestion to the experiment.
Today was hot, everyone change clothes. I like the hot weather, also everyone seems to enjoy sunshine and hot weather. I am tired little today, I am going to go bed earlier. See you then.