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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The background noise in those Mozart discs is far better music than anything coming out of that.....er....thing.
Ouch!
Yup album art is definitely gone. And loss of deep tracks is bad. So many times I bought an album for song X only to 3 or 4 other songs replace it as my reason for owning the album. Queen was probably the master of the “deep track” all those massive hit songs and 90% are surpassed by most of the album.
Figuring out programmatically what made a hit will probably go down as the worst thing that ever happened to the industry. It had the exact opposite effect of what they wanted. They thought if they could actually program hit music that meant unlimited record sales, in the end it proved to make 100% ephemeral and forgettable music killing all opportunities for experimentation and exploration. And that’s where good music, and music sales decades later, comes from.
Then it must sting those modern acts more the the Mozart album is all covers.
They shouldn’t, lazy uploaders cause that to happen. There are formats available for download that are far superior to CD quality, but they make big files so most folks use a higher compression algorithm than CDs which kills fidelity.
Did you know that Mozart died while he was writing ‘The Requiem’?
There is a record shop a couple blocks from where I work. I was talking to the owner one day and he told me that once college kids hear vinyl they are hooked. he said it is like crack for their ears.
For me, Mozart first, with Bach second. Don’t report me to the Admin Mod !
I agree with you 100%.
Sad but true.
At 48, I'm part of that generation who a quarter century ago bought CDs by the hundreds of millions each year, making the music industry richer than their wildest dreams.
These days, the hundreds of CDs I amassed are probably in a landfill somewhere. I don't even own a CD player. Even my car has a CD-less "digital media receiver" where I stream Pandora or Spotify from my iPhone via Bluetooth.
Tell the truth, I kinda miss CDs. I miss high fidelity. I miss the experience of putting thought into the music I wanted to listen to and then listening to a complete album from beginning to end. These days, listening to music has become something of a background activity.
And how. I believe his song “Leck Mich” went platinum.
Beyonce did have one of the best videos of all time, though ...
With Mozart you really have to get up to K. 400 and above for the music to get really interesting.
Not really - his Symphonies 25, 29 and Violin Concertos 3,4,5 are all masterpieces and cornerstones of the repertoire. His Flute and Harp concerto is the most beautiful thing ever written for either of those instruments, especially the second movement, which has other-worldly beauty. I could go on and on...
I’m 52 this past Nov. I ONLY buy CDs. I guess I am old.
Party on, Wolfie!
Ha ha! Brava! Sostegno e gloria d’umanità!
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