Posted on 08/31/2014 8:01:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
U.S. album sales hit 3.97-million last week, the smallest weekly total for album sales since Nielsen SoundScan first began tracking data in 1991, Billboard's Ed Christman and Glenn Peoples report.
It's also the first time during that period that weekly sales have fallen below 4 million, they write.
Sales for the week ending August 25 fell 18.6%. The best seller was rapper Whiz Khalifa's "Blacc Hollywood" which debuted with 90,000 units, Billboard says. For the first time in more than a year, sales for the soundtrack to Disney's "Frozen" fell below 100,000 units.
CD sales have practically vanished, down 19.2% year-over-year, with sales at mass merchants and chains down mass merchants and chains have fallen 23 percent and 25.6 percent, respectively.
And even digital sales are faltering, with digital album sales off 11.7% and track sales down 12.8%.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
And what about online streaming services like Napster, Amazon, etc?
I refuse to purchase digital music. I still pick up an occasional CD, but they're almost always re-releases of material from the vinyl era. I think the last time I actually bought a new CD of new music was either a Mark Schultz or Todd Agnew album, and that was at least five years ago. There just aren't many artists today that manage to capture my attention.
This says it all about what passes today for music.
Everytime they rehash old Beatles’ songs into a new collection, it immediately goes to Number One on the most downloaded list.
South Park had a funny episode about the kids downloading music. Recommend seeing it.
My wife and I sell CDs on eBay; last two weeks we’ve seen sales drop through the floor. If we get a buck for a CD, we’re surprised. Heck, a Lady Antebellum box set with the shirt hardly breaks $7. Some great jazz CDs going unsold or at the minimum bid.
Seems like everyone is streaming music these days.
SUIT: What we need is no rock music and more bro country music and more hip hoppity music with lip syncing strippers. Sales will skyrocket.
You might like this:
youtube.com/watch?v=cVxGpe-S_5I
I’m trying to compile a list of good, conservative artists.
Yeap. If you live close to Knoxville or possibly Chattanooga McKay's Used Books sells 33 LPs used and is getting a decent inventory built up of them. That's where I buy a majority of my CD's now. I have about 20 milk crates of old LP's out in the shed I've about replaced with CD's.
In all seriousness, I haven’t heard new music I liked enough to spend money on in a while.
I'm mainly buying what music I grew up on from 1960 when I was 3 to about mid 1980's or so. Mainly old rock, old country, folk, and bluegrass. IMO radio even satellite subscription has one huge drawback. You have to hear four or five songs to the one you actually like and want to hear. I have Direct TV and of the five channels I like music wise it's continuous channel hopping. Then you miss a portion of the song.
I have put all the music I buy and like into my portable hard drive and back it up that way. If say my home got broken into I still have my music. Through conversion processes I should be able to listen to it my lifetime.
The main problem trying to convert over to CD is a lot of music I liked because of licensing issues isn't re-released. Artist like the early releases of the Bellamy Brothers. Lobo is hard to find. You can find CD's most have the same songs but not his earlier. You can still find all of Johnny Horton though :>}
There hasn’t been any decent music since the 1960’s and 70’s!
I love music and was trained in piano. However, whoever said the following is absolutely correct....."too many Americans today don't like music, they like noise."
Leni
I actually bought a CD today as a matter of fact. It’s was the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack.
Loved the movie and the music on Starlord’s “Awesome Mix #1” took me back to a time when my mother introduced me to good music.
Modern popular music just sucks these days.
Ooga Chaka Ooga Ooga Ooga Chaka...
Another thing you have to watch closely is the download service retaining rights and control. Back when MS Windows media player had the MS Music Store I downloaded about $100 worth of music. Well they shut down and the ability to play it wasn't renewed. IOW you were renting it. But I didn't have that issue with Amazon but I don't use Amazons Downloader I download direct into my computer when I buy a download from them.
I saw that kid ‘Whiz Khalifa’ (”Blacc Hollywood”) on the TV show “Ridiculousness” and they showed some brief outtakes of Whiz with his shirt off yelling and gesticulating.
And I turned to my better dice-half after he had pretty much exhausted himself, sporting all those gold chains, and said to her, “We should get that album.” and that gave her a pretty good laugh.
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Its getting real hard to find decent 8 tracks also.
Its making a comeback,
I recently purchased “Hendrix live at Winterland” on Vinyl.
All you need to do to enjoy is get yourself a Carbon Debut turntable, some Vintage AR speakers and Marantz tuner and music can sound incredible again,
Not a lot of good music songs, artists, or bands out there...sorta stopped in 1990s..besides youtube got almost everything. Now I’d only invest in a CD if I really liked more than 3 songs on it.
If the music is from a living artist I am much more likely to pay for it than to simply download it from YouTube.
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