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Topic History of: The music industry 2020
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Green Man |
Randall wrote:
Green Man wrote:
I still buy both CDs and vinyl new and used.
Good God. You must go to a lot of car boot sales 
Saying that I don't even have a Spotify account.  |
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Green Man |
Randall wrote:
Green Man wrote:
I still buy both CDs and vinyl new and used.
Good God. You must go to a lot of car boot sales
Nope, just independent record stores. Never ever been to a car boot or a yard sale.  |
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Randall |
Green Man wrote:
I still buy both CDs and vinyl new and used.
Good God. You must go to a lot of car boot sales |
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Green Man |
Randall wrote:
When's the last time you paid for recorded music? I bet it wasn't a CD or an MP3 download.
It was probably when the music was attached to a movie, or part of a computer game. Angry Birds or something. The internet killed off the main source of industry income: physical record sales. Phasing out singles was a strategic mistake from the traditional record industry. People don't want to pay £15 for a hit, a B side, and a bunch of duds. They want to hear THAT song. First Napster stepped in to meet the demand, now YouTube, Spotify and Deezer. Instead of selling a million CDs, you have to get 10 million views to achieve a fraction of the revenue.
Commercial radio pop at the moment is highly stylised and formulaic, with a narrow range of genres. Ed Sheeran and Adele, mentioned above, produce material that's very similar. And many others in the charts are very interchangeable. Go back to the 90s however, and there was chart success for the Prodigy, Billy Joel, Alanis Morissette, Lauryn Hill, the Smashing Pumpkins, Bryan Adams, George Michael, Mariah Carey, Sting, UB40, Bon Jovi, Prince, Rod Stewart, Aerosmith, Seal, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, R.E.M, Sheryl Crow, U2, Jay-Z, 2Pac, Shania Twain, R Kelly, Whitney Houston, Madonna and... Michael Jackson. That's a huge amount of variety compared to contemporary top 40 lists.
I'm not an industry mover and shaker. I'm just a muso. You know, one of those guys who can actually shred and read music and stuff but wouldn't look all that special on a magazine cover. But that's how it seems from where I'm sitting, next to my amp that only goes up to 10.
I still buy both CDs and vinyl new and used. I have never saw the appeal to soundtracks even back in the 1980s.
I bought Cinderella the Mercury Years box set, along with Angel the Casablanca Years.
Don't mention Billy Joel to me or Rod Stewart. |
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Randall |
When's the last time you paid for recorded music? I bet it wasn't a CD or an MP3 download.
It was probably when the music was attached to a movie, or part of a computer game. Angry Birds or something. The internet killed off the main source of industry income: physical record sales. Phasing out singles was a strategic mistake from the traditional record industry. People don't want to pay £15 for a hit, a B side, and a bunch of duds. They want to hear THAT song. First Napster stepped in to meet the demand, now YouTube, Spotify and Deezer. Instead of selling a million CDs, you have to get 10 million views to achieve a fraction of the revenue.
Commercial radio pop at the moment is highly stylised and formulaic, with a narrow range of genres. Ed Sheeran and Adele, mentioned above, produce material that's very similar. And many others in the charts are very interchangeable. Go back to the 90s however, and there was chart success for the Prodigy, Billy Joel, Alanis Morissette, Lauryn Hill, the Smashing Pumpkins, Bryan Adams, George Michael, Mariah Carey, Sting, UB40, Bon Jovi, Prince, Rod Stewart, Aerosmith, Seal, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, R.E.M, Sheryl Crow, U2, Jay-Z, 2Pac, Shania Twain, R Kelly, Whitney Houston, Madonna and... Michael Jackson. That's a huge amount of variety compared to contemporary top 40 lists.
I'm not an industry mover and shaker. I'm just a muso. You know, one of those guys who can actually shred and read music and stuff but wouldn't look all that special on a magazine cover. But that's how it seems from where I'm sitting, next to my amp that only goes up to 10. |
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