Here are my top reasons:

1- CD sales are plunging worldwide

2- DRM is irrelevent

3- MP3s are the new CD

4- The advent of SD cards and portable music devices

5- New business models in relation to how we acquire music are beginning to make more sense

6- The advent of music enabled mobile phones

7- Music accessibility will become more of a service rather than conventional consumer methods

8- Artists in Asia are going Indie, hence more flexible pricing tailored for the Asian market

9- Indie labels are producing more artists and are more open to technological methods in promoting their material

10- More websites are offering flexible pricing for music

11- Agency type artist management is becoming more feasible, this method is a huge success in Japan

12- Repackaged albums are cliche’, Mp3 bundles are the way to go

13- In Malaysia, MACP is a shady organization

14- If it werent for TELCO in Malaysia, local music distributionship would have been dead donkey years ago

15- Mobile Content Providers are becoming new media record labels and distributors (hint hint!)