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Post by lollipopheaven on Nov 20, 2006 20:06:52 GMT -5
I think with the new releases in 2007 Britney primarily can make album sells percentages rise up. People are really looking forward to her new stuff. The problem with that is that it really doesn't have much to do with the artists releasing albums. It has more to do with the economics of the business. Britney, on her own, will not sell enough to cause the entire industry to rise in sales. I think you misread what I wrote. I said Britney could rise up sells a little for the most part. I didn't say she was the only one who could save the music industry.
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Post by o0o0o0o on Nov 20, 2006 22:10:15 GMT -5
Most music is crap nowadays, period.
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Post by jaxxalude on Nov 21, 2006 8:39:34 GMT -5
^ I was in my infancy in the 80s and I remember people saying that. Then I've heard it too, and a lot, during my 90s teenage years. Now, as an adult, I still see people with that same complain. See a pattern here? ;)
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Post by EmersonDrive13Rocks on Nov 22, 2006 3:16:36 GMT -5
No it won't recover unless they find a way to completely stop file sharing, illegal downloads, people buying a cd then burning it for all their friends, and stop all sites that have free music since lots of people I know either don't care about illegally downloading or burning music or don't think it is stealing. JoJo's album leaked online for illegal download 2 weeks before it was released. How many people illegally downloaded it instead of actually buying it? I downloaded it because I knew I was going to buy it but how many people just downloaded for free? Tonnes probably. No wonder album sales suck.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Nov 22, 2006 7:39:12 GMT -5
Naw, I'm completely with the reason that it will recover when they begin to refocus on better music instead of these flash-in-the-pan one-album-wonders. Fix that and then fix file sharing.
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Post by jaxxalude on Nov 22, 2006 9:55:26 GMT -5
and then fix file sharing. Believe me: that just CAN'T be fixed. Unless that draconian law about ending Net Neutrality they've been trying to pass in Congress goes through. And if it does, places like the PMB have better have the cash money to survive. I'm not being alarmist here, I'm just being realistic.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Nov 22, 2006 14:41:10 GMT -5
Is that law goes thru where the freedom of the internet is compromised to high paying businesses, I think technology as it applies to our society will take a major backward step. I know I for one will have little interest after that if it's how I imagine it to be.
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Post by Adonis the DemiGod! on Nov 25, 2006 0:01:19 GMT -5
and then fix file sharing. Believe me: that just CAN'T be fixed. Unless that draconian law about ending Net Neutrality they've been trying to pass in Congress goes through. And if it does, places like the PMB have better have the cash money to survive. I'm not being alarmist here, I'm just being realistic. I believe a move like this would create a backlash against Congress like we haven't seen. You have to fight technology with technology and do it collectively. That's really the only way for record companies to win. They have to get together and have a meeting and then all the major record companies need to stick to the non-copy-able format that they create and realize that they may have to get together again in the future to discuss modifying their format each year in order to stay ahead of the technology.
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Post by jaxxalude on Nov 25, 2006 13:06:22 GMT -5
Believe me: that just CAN'T be fixed. Unless that draconian law about ending Net Neutrality they've been trying to pass in Congress goes through. And if it does, places like the PMB have better have the cash money to survive. I'm not being alarmist here, I'm just being realistic. I believe a move like this would create a backlash against Congress like we haven't seen. You have to fight technology with technology and do it collectively. That's really the only way for record companies to win. They have to get together and have a meeting and then all the major record companies need to stick to the non-copy-able format that they create and realize that they may have to get together again in the future to discuss modifying their format each year in order to stay ahead of the technology. Thing is, if that law doesn't pass - and I want to believe it won't -, labels instinctively know it's over for them. I've already drawn the picture in an above post of mine, and believe me: they're getting out while they still can. Many of them have already seen that labels won't survive in the near future, and that the money will be in cross-marketing companies, which will be managers, agents and promoters, all at the same time. I mean, recording and releasing a record in the Internet age costs peanuts, with all the technology readily available as it is. And do I mean CD's will suffer from this? You bet I am! They will become very much like vinyl is today, marketed to collectors or niche markets.
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