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Sun Feb 10
Troubled British singer Amy Winehouse is the perfect  poster girl for the current state of the music industry. Music isn’t her problem. Everything else is. That’s exactly the same situation that the music industry - faced with lagging sales, a lack of star power and defection from its biggest moneymakers - finds itself in these days. And when the music industry has problems, the Grammys - celebrating their 50th anniversary Sunday - do as well.

Troubled British singer Amy Winehouse is the perfect poster girl for the current state of the music industry.

Music isn’t her problem. Everything else is. That’s exactly the same situation that the music industry - faced with lagging sales, a lack of star power and defection from its biggest moneymakers - finds itself in these days. And when the music industry has problems, the Grammys - celebrating their 50th anniversary Sunday - do as well.