Oh well. they'll just get left behind. Times are going to start changing and people better deal.

This doesn't makes any sense though, especially not for amazon. Why don't sell the album yourself, but let third party companies sell it through your site? That means you technically sell it, with loads of less money going to your company, but still people are able to buy it.

The only thing they might do is kill themselves. If artists keep investing to sell their albums at unusual places like H&M, Starbucks etc. there might be a new market created sooner than later where both Target and Amazon will not profit from in the long run.

Also if there is a high demand for something and you can't get it in your favourite store, but you can get the exact same product at an other store, people will just get it, and might even switch to that store for future purchases!

Why can't they just reduce those prices?

The potential sales from the album is just a small fraction of daily Target's revenue, so I don't think that affect them much, if at all.

On the other hand, they have established their power over the suppliers more, which is somehow a message not only to recording labels but to general suppliers as well.

Their loss. Poor dem.

and it's making them look like a bully. Because more and more artists will start doing this, and celebrities like Beyonce have more influence over buyers than Target.

good luck with that.

I am looking at it from Target's perspective but only because there is no other choice.

Everyone wants to pat Target on the back and congratulate them for taking a stand but what they don't realize is that music is taking a hard fall because of piracy and that is what Beyonce is fighting against as well as other artists who released digitally first. THEY are standing up for their work. I doubt Target will stop them.

Target doesn't care if music is pirated, they don't care that artists spend their livelihood recording music and praying it doesn't leak.

Target may be looking at it with rose colored glasses, they don't realize that while they're stuck in the past other retailers are going to find other ways to fight piracy and capitalize on what artists are going to move towards. Smart business is finding innovation, not refusing it and doing that Target could be left behind.

Target is already getting karma for not selling the Kang's album with that whole credit card fiasco. It would've been to their benefit to advertise that they are selling Bey's album to change the subject and get the consumers mind off their credit card fiasco, oh well, karma has already caught up with them. And watch, Amazon will get their taste of karma real soon too, you don't f*ck with the Creole Kang!!!

Like someone else said, it's extremely hypocritical for Target to happily partner with Beyoncé for an exclusive of her last album "4" but the boycott when iTunes gets it next time. You didn't see iTunes boycott "4".

Not even just about Beyoncé but any artist, the varied amounts of money physical CDs sell depending on it's success in stores isn't going to determine the overall success of the company. Sure they might not be making as much money as they could, but it isn't going to cause bankruptcy Not to mention she did the exclusive for 7 days. Not 7 weeks, months, or forever. 7 days. It's just making them look silly, especially given the success of the record.

Because it's a visual album that deserves it's coins

And people are still paying for it without hesitation.

Overall, Beyoncé is paving the way for other artists with her strategic move. So many artists are excited for her and her success, because they feel like record labels and stores are making more money than they are.

Beyoncé don't need Target as much as Target needs her, tbh

already bought my copy from best buy today

Great example of how people will buy the album elsewhere, Target thinks they're making a stand against the artists who are trying to protect their music but in reality I doubt it will decrease the amount sold by a substantial amount.

They are trying to scare artists into thinking that they'll "miss out" on sales but in reality I think this is proving the opposite.

This would only work if we would be talking about a exclusive product, but we are talking a mass product like a CD, if anyone wants it, they will just try to find it elsewhere, the logic of Target really is flawed for sure.

CD sales may just be a small portion of their revenue, but it is still money. And by not selling Beyoncé's new album, arguably the most anticipated album of the year, they're losing a lot of that.

The way they have gone about this album situation is just absolutely ridiculous. They are basically acting like bratty 7 year olds who are pissed off because their little siblings got a piece of candy before they did. By trying to prove their "point", they are making themselves look absolutely stupid and immature.