Album Sales In America Just Hit An All-Time Low

Business Insider ^ | 08/30/2014 | Rob Wile

[moovova]

Bring back vinyl.

[Chode]

kinda hard to sell stuff to the free sh!t nation...

somebody steals the cd and posts it online, who's gonna buy it when they can download it for free?

[ConorMacNessa]

I'm buying lots of albums - digitally. Do they take into account the sales of mp3 music in their tally?

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[nickcarraway]

Lower than the 1850’s? That is bad.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

When you can rent a huge library for less than the cost of a CD Why buy?

[Victor]

The music sales industry has changed so much and so quickly....the casual observer cannot see what has happened.

Mechanical media (CDs, tapes, etc) are a thing of the past (although I personally still prefer CDs- I buy from Amazon)

Today, even downloads are becoming a thing of the past because people subscribe to streaming services such as Spotify or Rhapsody...which are sort of a *Juke Box in the Sky*.

Artists are begging for scraps- they make next to nothing from streaming audio. The only *real* money left in the music business lies with the publishers.

[.45 Long Colt]

They still sell albums?

In all seriousness, I haven’t heard new music I liked enough to spend money on in a while.

[DesScorp]

Good. Let Hollywood... movies, TV, and Music... die.

[chris37]

Yep.

If you want to sell music, first it helps to have music, and no, Beyonce does not count as music.

[dfwgator]

Bring back good music.

[dfwgator]

Heck I can pretty much go to YouTube to hear anything I want.

[ClearCase_guy]

The last time I saw a CD for sale in a store, it cost over $15. I considered it laughably overpriced, because it probably had 2 good songs.

[bigbob]

About what most new music is worth

[Ransomed]

Good music is out there. It just will never be played on modern radio or make the popular culture in the foreseeable future, in my opinion.

FReegards

[Veggie Todd]

What’s an album?

[rockinqsranch]

Agree with you both. Haven’t heard anything in years, since about the ‘80’s I guess worth putting out the hard earned cash to purchase.

I’ve been updating my collection of CD’s purchasing online the older music I either lost, or never got around to purchasing back when.

[Ken H]

Lower than the 1850’s?

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[bgill]

Bring back decent music.

[Sans-Culotte]

I have a ton of CDs, but I don’t listen to new music. I listen to classical and Sinatra mostly. I have all off Sinatra’s albums, so I don’t need more (unless they are SACDs). I still buy classical; either pieces that are new to me, or different versions by different conductors of pieces I already have. However, I don’t listen to any new music.