Why would anyone want to buy cd's in the future?
written by DOT
written by DOT
Let's face it the act of going to the record store to buy cd's is fading away. I remember the joy of popping the seal on a brand new tape in the 80's, cd's in the 90's, and my iPod case in the new millennium??? Wait, how do artists benefit from my new ability to download their music (for
free) at nearly the speed of light? They don't! That's how!
At some point soon even cd's will become obsolete. Everyone will have iPods one day and mostly all connections will be wireless. I guess what I want to know is how will artists make money off of record sales when theoretically, no one will be buying records in the new music age?
Personally I haven't purchased an album in about two years. The last album I bought was Rick Ross' 1st album. I bought it because Ross was new to me and I wanted to hear what type of album he could put together. I want to purchase albums from Common, Lupe, and even Kanye but they're music is usually leaked heavily prior to the release dates of their albums so its pointless to waste my time going to the record store to purchase something I already have free access to.
During the season finale of Making The Band 4 Danity Kane and Day 26 had a competition over who could sell the most albums via iTunes during the first week. That is a testament that consumers are not going to the record stores anymore when artists are competing to see who can sell the most records on iTUNES!
Music (hip hop in particular) has become so over saturated that I'm pleased with the mixtapes that most artists release and am tired of hearing them by the time their album drops.
Should artists be scared for their future album sales?
4 comments:
Yup. Artists should be afraid. I still download music, but it's more to see if I like a product or not. If I genuinely enjoy an artists' work, I'll buy it. If not, there's the luxury of the delete button. There's still no feeling like fighting through that plastic packaging, seeing who produced which songs and occasionally being blessed with the lyrics to songs. OB4CL, it was purple, man! PURPLE!! You can't download that.
a couple of things: DK and Day 26 were competing to see whose single sold the most, not their album but i think the point is the same as you said, we're def in a techno age. i agree with just k, download to evaluate, if u like it, buy it, if not, the delete button with the quickness, i think you should def support the artist if they're puttin out quality work, A3K touched on it on his song with Devin and Snoop "what a job this is" when he likened it to taking a few kernels off corn off the cob from somebody's job not bein ok. but artists have never really made money off record sales, the exception being the times where they sell a shit load of records and the album keeps selling (thriller, U2, 50's first album) but artists use that money to pay back their record companies for all the shit they owe, the dough comes from ticket sales and shows, and now all the other endorsements and shit that comes with being a popular artist or having a popular song (ring tones, itunes, etc), damn this is long, just throwin that in, BUY QUALITY MUSIC, ESPECIALLY LITTLE BROTHER!! :)
agreed....and that's why artists like u2, radiohead (releasing their album online for free or for whatever their fans wanted to pay for it...made BANK needless to say), madonna and now jay-z are using other venues for guaranteed profit and of course to put out their music. artists not only have to come out with new/fresh music, they gotta move creatively with the ebbs and flows of how ppl are choosing to consume the product. much like how the tv industry is dealin with the fast-forward function and downloads (cuttin out the commercials/ads that pay for the industry to go round).
i used to be against myspace but that's my shit now to find new FRESH artists. for example:
www.myspace.com/pacificdivision
www.myspace.com/herfavcolor
www.myspace.com/plasticmask
www.myspace.com/donnismusic
www.myspace.com/robroy
here's what i don't get. If people aren't going to buy albums the way they used to, why do these dumb ass artists throw the same money out the window on expensive videos and producers?
Having Hype Williams build you a $1 million video used to have an effect but now its a big ass write-off. And while i love Ye and Timbo, to give a dude like $200K for one beat is silly! (holla at Wiz! he'll get u the same crak for less)
I thought the people that decided to release albums online and let their fans decide what to pay is genius because the fans actually responded. It made a connection between the fan and the artist that had be disintegrated a long time ago. If you know that the money will go directly to the artist for their hard work and not some big business exec., you might drop $10 online for the album.
people need to think outside the box or... past the.. lol
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