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Originally posted by J-esper
It's not so dramatic as you sketch, I am all for transparant global releases. But certain countries have different systems and beside that the general public isn;t searching for the lowest quality. Like you said it's 2014 and certain countries are already have streaming as main event.
Also it is only a lost revenue because you are a forum visitor. Most people out there don't even know about this song at all. So the itunes release will probably randomly appear for them and those are the people who need to buy the song.
Not just a few random forum guys and a handful of fans. Ofcourse those sales are fine. But it are the masses who will get to hear the song from radio or a random youtube/facebook/spotify playlist who actually make the difference between #40 and #5
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I agree. However, it doesn't take much effort to know Nicole has a new song out. You just need to subscribe to her profile on one single social media site and you'd know Your Love was ... let's call it published. You'd also know Your Love would be released on July whatever since there was no official mention of release dates apart from the UK ones (at least not that I know of).
Apart from that you might want to hear the song on your iPhone etc. and you'll rip it from Soundcloud or YouTube. At least that's what most people in Austria would do. You will listen to the song and when it is officially released you may have already stopped listening to it because it annoys you and you won't bother to buy it anymore. I am aware that this probably affects only a small percentage of the general public but it is lost revenue, still.
By the way the general public doesn't really care about quality either, they don't even know what good quality sounds like. When I played a song in iTunes quality my boyfriend on my headphones he said that this sounds so much better than when he listens to the songs he gets from his friends, he couldn't believe it. This is just an example but I think it applies to a lot of people around here, unfortunately.
With that said let's just hope we can someday live in a world where this omnipresent globalization can also be extended to the music business, the different systems in different countries need to be unified slowly but steadily. However, I think this as big a task as converting the USA to the metric system. It's not going to happen.
