Music Industry

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Scruffy

It annoys me no end how Spotify and the like weren't introduced sooner. The music business let illegal downloading run rampant for years before getting the legal music online thing together. And surely there are good signs in some places? Look at how big download sales have gotten in the US. The fact that Britney has sold over 2 million downloads of Womanizer in the US has got to be worth something...
 
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Tafkap

spiker said:
If radio and music channels played a wider selection of songs then this ridiculously low percentage may be higher.
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Aren't we inside the MySpace age anyway? Radio and TV have lost its importance and people can get their fix of obscure music via YouTube etc.
 
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spiker

Tafkap said:
spiker said:
If radio and music channels played a wider selection of songs then this ridiculously low percentage may be higher.
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Aren't we inside the MySpace age anyway? Radio and TV have lost its importance and people can get their fix of obscure music via YouTube etc.
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True, but I think it only applies to those that actually want to find it. The general public have a habit of consuming what they are being spoon fed.

Clearly though there are many factors contributing to this low figure.
 
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Tafkap

Though your right in a way we're back in the 80's now, when Pop Top 40 radio overshadowed any attempt of doing something else and alternative genres have been pushed back into the underground.
 
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DiscoBlue

Tafkap said:
spiker said:
If radio and music channels played a wider selection of songs then this ridiculously low percentage may be higher.
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Aren't we inside the MySpace age anyway? Radio and TV have lost its importance and people can get their fix of obscure music via YouTube etc.
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Not really, hence the dominance of US radio and "Radio One" controlling the charts. People have to SEARCH for music on YouTube and MySpace, on the radio it's given to them.
 
Tribal Spaceman

Tribal Spaceman

Oh, OK.
DiscoBlue said:
People have to SEARCH for music on YouTube and MySpace, on the radio it's given to them.
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This is exactly it. I don't see why they can't put on a music show on prime time TV every night. Or at least twice a week.
With so many acts and songs it would never go stale.
 
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Jonerez

The music industry will never collapse. Even if it does hit rock-bottom, im sure someone will find a way of luring people into buying instead of illegal downloading. After all, it is the internet that has harmed the music industry, with piracy etc.
 
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BillOddie

Tribal Spaceman said:
DiscoBlue said:
People have to SEARCH for music on YouTube and MySpace, on the radio it's given to them.
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This is exactly it. I don't see why they can't put on a music show on prime time TV every night. Or at least twice a week.
With so many acts and songs it would never go stale.
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It all comes down to ratings and no one, comparatively, watches music programming.
 
cjwhite1

cjwhite1

Physical CDs definitely need to be cheaper if the industry is going to boost sales. Downloading, legally or otherwise, is simply too cheap, easy and widespread now. They need to do something big or sales will surely just continue declining.
 
Charley

Charley

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That probably does include cheaper made and shorter albums as well though (Think the Doll Domination sequels, the Justin Bieber albums, the Miranda Cosgrove album, etc.)

I prefer a 12 track album to an 8 track album, but then again I definitely prefer an 8 track album to no album at all.
 
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absintheboy

They could probably invest more money into more short albums and EPs, that way they could release two a year with some artists, rather than re-releasing albums which pisses off consumers who already have most of the tracks from buying version 1.0 of the album.
 
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Daneeeboy

Making Cd's cheaper (they're already pretty cheap) isn't going to save anyone's job. You can't compete with 'free' as a price point. They need to add value to their product, not cheapen what they already have. The 'record' industry need to learn that their product was plastic, NOT music. As soon as they wise up to that and accept that music holds little value in isolation (never did, never will) they can start making some serious cash again.

Instead they want to keep milking their established revenue streams. Louis B. Mayer must be looking down and laughing.
 
Queen Majesty

Queen Majesty

Charley! said:
That probably does include cheaper made and shorter albums as well though (Think the Doll Domination sequels, the Justin Bieber albums, the Miranda Cosgrove album, etc.)

I prefer a 12 track album to an 8 track album, but then again I definitely prefer an 8 track album to no album at all.
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To be honest with you, I don't mind short albums. For instance, She Wolf was worth the money despite 10 tracks.
 
X/S

X/S

Artists already make SOOOO little money from CD sales as it is. Decreasing the prices won't make things any better.
 
Suasexed

Suasexed

Make CDs cheaper? They're hardly expensive. Most can be picked up for £7-8 a week after release and a month later you can get them for as cheap as £5. How cheap do you want it? It's devaluing the music in my opinion.
 
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Hartley

I want a physical cd lasting no more than 50 mins max and about a fiver....

... Oh hang on- I just described a vinyl album
before CDs took over!!
 
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multimediac17

I'd be fine with shorter albums, usually they get rid of the shit by cutting down the tracks. She Wolf, for example, was a fantastic album probably because it was too short. Any longer and it would have been going on a bit, especially because Shakira doesn't always have the most pleasant voice. Compare that to something like Christina's Stripped which is so fucking long and boring it makes me want to tear my face off, but has a classic 10-track album buried in it. See also: every Janet album since All For You.

Thriller, the biggest album of all time, had nine tracks, while Invincible, the epic fail, had sixteen. Coincidence? I THINK NOT, PEOPLE.
 
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mylesofsmiles93

Surely they could save alot converting completely to Eco-packs? But who ever said about cheapining the products is not going to help. I agree, they do need a massive crack down on illegal downloading.
 
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