How Target and Amazon leaving money on the table? Beyonce made a choice to release her album on itunes. They can't hurt from something they never had.

They're passing up a profit is what the article is saying
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Honestly, Target and Amazon both seem foolish now.

I hope other artists follow Beyonce's digital suit to deter piracy, artists really don't have many options.

More like a warning for future artists

i agree with walmart and amazon tactic... imagine if more artsist start doing the same.... thats not fair imo artists have to respect every shop that sells their album

I don't think it's working
And It'll most likely be back to #1 in 3 days

your post would make a tiny bit of sense if target exclusive deals did not exist

You're not looking at it from the artists perspective.

Do you know how many millions Britney has lost because of piracy or Beyonce? This is their craft and their work, why should they have to deal with piracy if there is an option to decrease it? How can we battle the decreasing album sales?

Digital first week is an amazing idea to battle piracy that is caused A LOT OF TIMES by stockroom employees at Targets or other physical distributors.

They are coming for Bieber next

It's smart for them to positionate as a powerful brand tho, I get what they are trying to do. They are not winning extra money but they are not losing it either.

i didnt knew about them..... i am against these kind of things. Give one place the exclusivity is bad it makes the other feel minor and its bad for their buisness


they can battle piracy with other ways...

Beyonce is in a good route with what she did.. imo thats the solution u have to give people reasons to buy the album and not download it.. so beyonce put a bunch of videos... artist should also start working their albums like books, work the cover, the booklet everything, they should make it feel like buing the album is like having this little piece of art in your hands....

IMO britney shoud have give some vegas ticket with her cd..., like a lottery, a small number of lucky people would win a visit to her show, it would be a big deal and it would make people buy the album than just download it

What? like at Apple stores?

Just as you're not looking at it from Target/Amazons perspective.

Most likely when artist see that Beyoncé's strategy works(as has been proven) most of them will move to doing their releases iTunes only first week which will in time affect physical sales. In time you would have a situation where an album sells 25% physical and 75 % digital,to guess. Simply put they stand to lose more inn future if they don't deter other artists from doing this ,it wont matter much if the artist makes more money in future while they cant anymore.

This isn't about Beyonce, it's about some retailers discouraging other artists/labels from trying iTunes exclusive releases.