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Sorry Beyoncé, Drake, Rihanna - Mozart Had the Best-Selling CD of 2016
Newsweek ^ | December 8, 2016 | Laurie Chen

Posted on 12/08/2016 12:35:05 PM PST by nwrep

A mammoth box set of Mozart’s music is officially the best-selling CD release of 2016.

Mozart 225: The New Complete Edition has sold a total of 1.25 million CDs in the five weeks since its release, announced Universal Music Group via Billboard.

The anthology, containing every musical work written by famed Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), has managed to beat this year’s hit albums from stars including Drake, Beyoncé, Rihanna and Kanye West.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: California
KEYWORDS: cd; cds; mozart; music
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To: WayneS; Dr. Sivana

You mean you spent that kind of money for a Mozart cover band?


21 posted on 12/08/2016 12:53:02 PM PST by henkster
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To: henkster
Do they only count CD sales, or does “CD sales” include downloads?

Just CDs; those little plastic discs that young people have absolutely no use for, if they even own a device that would play one.

By comparison, Adele's 25 last year sold more downloaded copies on the first day of release in the United States alone than this Mozart CD sold.

These days, only old people buy CDs.

22 posted on 12/08/2016 12:56:50 PM PST by Drew68
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To: discostu

I thought that would be the case; people are only buying the songs they want from an album, not the entire album. The “CD” is going to be obsolete. We are losers in a couple of ways:

1. The CD began the process, but with the death of the CD comes the death of the genre of “album art.” Some of the best pop art of two generations was on album covers.

2. There are many times I’ve bought a CD, and at first blush one or two songs don’t seem that good. But with exposure, over time I realize they are actually good songs.

But probably the main cause of the collapsed market is that they don’t have anything to market. What is passed as “music” these days is all formulaic canned crap that sounds no different than the rest of the formulaic canned crap out there.


23 posted on 12/08/2016 1:00:08 PM PST by henkster
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To: brucedickinson

Who?


24 posted on 12/08/2016 1:00:54 PM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Drew68

My younger son has figured out that if he buys the CD, he can get the download for free immediately then puts the CD away as a back up.

My other son doesn’t stream or buy CDs, he listens to FM radio.

Both are a couple of throwbacks.


25 posted on 12/08/2016 1:03:18 PM PST by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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To: nwrep

I kept putting off buying it, and now Amazon is sold out.

Bummer.

I hope they get another supply soon.


26 posted on 12/08/2016 1:04:57 PM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: dangerdoc

I’ll buy CDs at the second-hand CD store, upload it to my iTunes library, and keep the CD as a backup.


27 posted on 12/08/2016 1:05:11 PM PST by henkster
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To: henkster

When I was young, I never consumed music by the song, music was one side of an album. I found that frequently, I didn’t really like any individual song but as an album side, the music worked.

Putting together an album side is a lost art.


28 posted on 12/08/2016 1:06:19 PM PST by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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To: nwrep

The really sad thing about all this? The publisher is going to claim “copyright” over the disks for 100 years.


29 posted on 12/08/2016 1:07:16 PM PST by zeugma (I'm going to get fat from all this schadenfreude)
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To: henkster

That is what he does, a little surprised that a 15 year old would be doing so.


30 posted on 12/08/2016 1:07:21 PM PST by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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To: nwrep

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mozart+rubber+duck&view=detailv2&&id=CFF62CA0DF81743E4569D81BB1E5F44AE93289C8&selectedIndex=0&ccid=54QOqqYe&simid=607993067722179026&thid=OIP.Me7840eaaa61e024d4ee95290beccb6edo0&ajaxhist=0


31 posted on 12/08/2016 1:08:49 PM PST by Mercat (Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.” (Blaise Pascal))
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To: dangerdoc

Putting together an album that tells a story is a lost art.

The Who: Quadrophenia

Pink Floyd: Animals


32 posted on 12/08/2016 1:10:59 PM PST by henkster
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To: WayneS
It’s obvious they hired a bunch of “session” players for these recordings.

Yep. Wolfie was a dab hand at electric klavier in his younger days but later his strength was in composing and still later, decomposing.

33 posted on 12/08/2016 1:11:05 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: henkster

Another lost art is album covers.


34 posted on 12/08/2016 1:13:06 PM PST by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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To: nwrep

"Too Many Notes"


35 posted on 12/08/2016 1:13:07 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: discostu
8The day talent has anything to do with sales all the record company exec will take massive pay cuts because anybody could do their job then. No the real news here is 1.25 million sales wins the year, that’s basically nothing. That’s single platinum, that shouldn’t even be top 20 on the year. Of course last year nobody went platinum, this is a collapsed market.

Downloadable music formats have inferior sound quality to CD's. Classical music lovers appreciate the quality of CD's and will go to the trouble of buying physical media.

36 posted on 12/08/2016 1:14:22 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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To: SpaceBar
You might be interest in this: The Well Tempered Clavier.

I downloaded and ripped it as individual tracks, and as one big bloody track. Sent them a few $$ too, as I thought it was pretty well done.

37 posted on 12/08/2016 1:17:34 PM PST by zeugma (I'm going to get fat from all this schadenfreude)
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To: Paleo Conservative
Downloadable music formats have inferior sound quality to CD's. Classical music lovers appreciate the quality of CD's and will go to the trouble of buying physical media.

Absolutely.

CDs and vinyl are superior sound wise. That's why I buy them.

38 posted on 12/08/2016 1:20:11 PM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Paleo Conservative
Downloadable music formats have inferior sound quality to CD's. Classical music lovers appreciate the quality of CD's and will go to the trouble of buying physical media.

I listen primarily to classical, and continue to buy CDs, SACDs and Blu-ray audio discs. The only time I buy digital music is when it's one of those cheap Bach Guild sets from Amazon that I can stream in my office at work.

39 posted on 12/08/2016 1:20:15 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: FenwickBabbitt

This. Is. So. Timely!

I have not only been praying for our President and Vice President-elect’s every success, but for our culture to change as well: for a revival of truth, beauty, and goodness in the arts! For Christians and conservatives to take the lead in media and entertainment industries with artistic integrity and excellence.

We are so hungry for spiritual and cultural revival!


40 posted on 12/08/2016 1:20:58 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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