From The Guardian: Lost in music.
Some 25,793 CDs were released last year – and there will be as many, if not more, this year. We made Alexis Petridis listen to every single one out this month. What did it tell him about the state of the music industry? And just who are Infected Mushroom?
Skirl | Dan Dickinson 
There were 12,465 debut releases in the US in 2003. Out of those albums, only 21 recouped their budget. To put it in perspective, last year in America, 24 people were killed by lightning.