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?
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 ...
Bring back vinyl.
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?
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Lower than the 1850’s? That is bad.
When you can rent a huge library for less than the cost of a CD Why buy?
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.
They still sell albums?
In all seriousness, I haven’t heard new music I liked enough to spend money on in a while.
Good. Let Hollywood... movies, TV, and Music... die.
Yep.
If you want to sell music, first it helps to have music, and no, Beyonce does not count as music.
Bring back good music.
Heck I can pretty much go to YouTube to hear anything I want.
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.
About what most new music is worth
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
What’s an album?
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.
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet."
--Richard's Poor Almanack, ca 1740
Bring back decent music.
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.
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