An industry in decline IFPI Taiwan secretary-general Robin Lee notes that 1997 marked the peak of Taiwan's recording industry. Because the proliferation of pirated CDs had been brought under control, sales of legitimate CDs reached NT $ 12.3 billion, a figure second in Asia only to that of Japan's industry.
唱片業的寒冬 IFPI 執行長李瑞斌表示，1997 年是台灣唱片業的鼎盛期，由於對實體盜版的控制得宜，正版唱片銷售金額當時高達 123 億元台幣，在亞洲僅次於日本。