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What do we need to save the music industry?
Member Since: 1/26/2005
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What do we need to save the music industry?
Ok. I say let's bring this discussion back again!
Mazen suggested cuting the prices on half while others stated different ideas.
I say what we need to save the music industry is not catching people who share it.
Isn't it obvious? We need a new format. To not call them Cd's anymore. Something similar to blueray or something. Dvd's were a huge improvement from VHS not only because they were high definition but because they have so many other features like interviews, making the movie scenes, bloopers and many other things a real fan of the movie wouldn't wanna miss.
A new type of CD could have different features too. With stuff you couldn't just get from the internet as easily as music. Maybe a special CD that wasn't so easy to destroy or mess up.
(I know re-releases have different features but it's basically the same thing)
The price might be higher but it might work.
The problem is that our technology has stopped the advance in the music industry after the CDs. They're just focusing on the mp3 sales, Ipod's, etc. Forgetting about the main product itself. MUSIC.
What do you think?
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Member Since: 3/2/2008
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Digital sales are too strong. It would be a waste of time to enhance the CD when people are already staying at home to get the album. And digital sales are the next step in the music industry. Eventually, album sales will arise when people start figuring out that on iTunes, you can get the album for $5-$10 cheaper and it's cheaper to get the whole album than to buy the tracks separately. But I do think that adding extra features for Album Only would help sales a bit.
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Member Since: 7/25/2006
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I think they need to stop with the CDs. Isn't that how albums gets leaked in the first place? :S
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Member Since: 1/14/2007
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The music industry can be saved by lowering album prices. I truly believe that if albums (I'm referring to any legal music source for albums) were considerably cheaper, people would buy them instead of illegally downloading it
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Keep prices as is but have extra features that come with the CD (maybe it being one of the CD/DVD combos). Like Liyoh said, it should be something that would be a must have for fans and would not be easily accessible over the internet.
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Member Since: 3/2/2008
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If you get it from iTunes or any of the other downloading providers that count towards Billboard, it's legal.
Basically, that's any downloading provider that you have to pay for that does not promo file sharing.
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Member Since: 10/23/2006
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I think regardless of CD sales, artists who genuinely care and work hard at their music will continue to release it, no matter what format it will be. Though i do agree the music industry (read: quality of music) is floundering a bit, you're talking more about what we can do to save the record industry, i.e. music sales. I buy CD's all the time, but I make sure I like a very high percentage of the songs featured before I do. I think the slumping record sales have partly to do with the internet revolution, and the availability of literally everything free. However, though this may not be true, it is the way i see it, I kind of feel like the lower sales also kind of have to do with consumer backlash. CD sales peaked around the teen-pop - boy band era of the late 90's, early 00's. From talking to friends who own many of the CDs released at this time from Spears, BSB, NSYNC, etc., it seems these discs havent aged very well in general. This was a time when CDs consisted of singles and then filler. So, now that everyone's grown up a bit, I kind of feel like a lot of people dont want to buy CD's for the fear of feeling gypped. When you download something online, it doesnt matter if you dont like it because its free.
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Member Since: 2/5/2007
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i think the music industry is basically screwed, but I do like just to open a new cd, so I agree with mazen
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Member Since: 5/31/2008
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Hmmm, I agree with Mazen, too.
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Member Since: 6/25/2004
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All of these points are goo, but the best ones are to lower the price or add features that are exclusive to when the album hits shelves.
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Member Since: 4/23/2007
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To save the music industry. The only thing to SAVE IT is to destroy PIRACY, sorry but that's the only chance.
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Member Since: 1/14/2007
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Originally posted by Dancefloor
To save the music industry. The only thing to SAVE IT is to destroy PIRACY, sorry but that's the only chance.
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Each and every day, that dream slips farther and farther away from the music industry.
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Member Since: 11/4/2006
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I still buy CDs, but the music industry is basically screwed, the majority of everyone now dowload mp3's & they just put it in their iPod & there good to go.
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Member Since: 1/14/2007
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I think some people are missing the point a little bit. The argument here is about how to save the music industry, not how to save CD's. There are many other ways to save the music industry that may not have to do with CD's. Another format would be cool. People are just tired of CD's just as we are with any technology that has been around for a while. A new technology would have to be something to even draw illegal downloaders in as well. Also it would have to be cheap.
Whatever...I could care less if the music industry ever listens to me.
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Member Since: 3/2/2008
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But the new format is files. Computer, iPod, MP3, MP4 (what the heck are those?), etc. People are starting to realize that it is cheaper to do it this way and it is still legal, and you don't have to leave your house to do it. However, it brings up the issue of file sharing and piracy. Where people are too dumb to realize that getting music for free from websites is illegal and can either send them to jail or cost over $1,000 for each song. I really don't get the whole file sharing/piracy thing. If you get it off places like Zune, iTunes, and Napster, it is 1,000,000,000 times better quality than file sharing/piracy. Sure it costs a little more, but you'll be guaranteed not to pay a hefty fine or go to jail and you get exceptional quality.
Now what would be incredibly amazing is if the whole album gets released as singles. Like four singles at the same time or something. It would promote the album and the artist. I mean, people are buying a song only for $.99, when the could get the whole album for less than $10. A lot of the times, the whole album is way better than that single you're going to get tired of because you hear it everyday.
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Member Since: 1/14/2007
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Originally posted by tcatron565
If you get it off places like Zune, iTunes, and Napster, it is 1,000,000,000 times better quality than file sharing/piracy. Sure it costs a little more, but you'll be guaranteed not to pay a hefty fine or go to jail and you get exceptional quality.
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Really????? You must have been looking in the wrong places because you can get quality higher than any legal downloading source.
Jail??? lol I'd like to see them try that.
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Member Since: 4/23/2007
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Originally posted by yankee04
Each and every day, that dream slips farther and farther away from the music industry.
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Well, then there's no way to save it.
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Member Since: 8/17/2003
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Here's an idea..... Stop Downloading music off the ****in computer. Buy the damn albums at the store like in the good old days. When will you people realize downloading is wrong & stupid. Downloading is crap & i don't believe in it. also make the cd's like $8.88. If any of you cared you will listen to what i have to say & not mock cause you all know i'm right.
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Member Since: 3/2/2008
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They can send you to jail for it. Most likely you'll get the fine, but there is a chance they can send you to jail. Dropping CD prices won't help a bit. Unless you make them way cheaper than iTunes, then that won't help. A lot of today's albums go on iTunes for $7.99, so unless you can put it at like $3, than it's not gonna matter. People are gonna pay extra just so they don't have to leave their houses to get the CD.
And why are you so against downloading? It's not wrong. It's the future of the music industry. Mark my words that by December 21, 2012 all albums will switch to digital release only. As long as you're paying for it and it isn't file sharing, it is legal.
Billboard also counts digital album sales in the Billboard 200 anyway, so...... (However, it also needs to be a physical release.)
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Member Since: 8/17/2003
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Originally posted by tcatron565
They can send you to jail for it. Most likely you'll get the fine, but there is a chance they can send you to jail. Dropping CD prices won't help a bit. Unless you make them way cheaper than iTunes, then that won't help. A lot of today's albums go on iTunes for $7.99, so unless you can put it at like $3, than it's not gonna matter. People are gonna pay extra just so they don't have to leave their houses to get the CD.
And why are you so against downloading? It's not wrong. It's the future of the music industry. Mark my words that by December 21, 2012 all albums will switch to digital release only. As long as you're paying for it and it isn't file sharing, it is legal.
Billboard also counts digital album sales in the Billboard 200 anyway, so...... (However, it also needs to be a physical release.)
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I just am against it's wrong.
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Member Since: 1/14/2007
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Originally posted by tcatron565
And why are you so against downloading? It's not wrong. It's the future of the music industry. Mark my words that by December 21, 2012 all albums will switch to digital release only. As long as you're paying for it and it isn't file sharing, it is legal.
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Is everyone having an obsession with December 21, 2012? You know, it is the date where nothing will happen.
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