Music News: U.S. Album Sales Fell by 13% During 2009 - Page 4

Swaggie

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Originally posted by Departure

Physical albums last forever, that is if you take care of them.

iPods and Computers don't.

If your iPod crashes, it's on your computer. If your computer crashes it's on your iPod. But it's a pain in the ass to figure out how to take songs OFF your iPod. You have to manually do it. All the file names are messed up.

I'm just saying, why wouldn't you rather have a CD to just pop in your computer over dealing with a mess like that?

Back up your library on a flash drive if your computer were to crash or you bought a new one, and right click delete to delete a song.

Hustle.

Weird that movie industry is booming, when music is flatlining.... and movies cost more $ to buy/see with less longevity

nodoubt2010

Did anybody care to even realize that maybe its the music that has caused it to crash?

Keisha?
Justin Bieber?
Susan Boyle?
Iyaz?
Black Eyed Peas?

Some of the worst music in history has come out from even major artists like Beyonce and Britney in the past few years and people wonder (Single Ladies? Radar? ) . And then look at veterans like Mariah, Madonna, Janet and Whitney. They have all turned their backs on the pop and rnb that made them superstars and in its place are horrible cds like Discipline, Memoirs, Hard Candy and I Look To You. The only truly decent mainstream new artist is Lady Gaga and even her music is horrid to a lot of people. Then there is Taylor Swift.

Music has just gone down the crapper

MP2K

Hm, well I guess the word flop won't be used often when 100k is the new platnuim and their faves are selling that much.

Beatfreak

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Originally posted by keriihill

That's true. An LSO (Large-Scale-Organisation) like Apple can do anything they want, since they have the market share and no real competitors. They were waiting for an excuse like the global financial crisis to jack prices up.

Quite sad really.
But anywho, life goes on. Every industry must adapt to changing external pressures, whether they like it or not.

It's so sad.

It's sad that Apple is pretty much a digital music monopoly. If zunes became as popular as iPods, then there would be some real competition in the digital music world. iTunes would have to fight to keep their customers by lowering their prices back to 0.99.

I also hope that physical albums aren't nonexistent by 2016. That's ridiculous. I can understand reducing the number shipped over time, but for them to be gone for good? I just don't see that happening.

It's the millions of cherrypickers like me that forced this to happen, but it's time for a music sales revolution. We need to be creative to find a way to boom the sales back up. I actually like most of the music out right now and have few complaints. I don't see why the music industry is failing, besides the fact of the digital age and the recession. (Which will help the industry once the economy gets better. More spending, higher music sales.)

Hustle.

Quote:

Originally posted by nodoubt2010

Did anybody care to even realize that maybe its the music that has caused it to crash?

Keisha?
Justin Bieber?
Susan Boyle?
Iyaz?
Black Eyed Peas?

Some of the worst music in history has come out from even major artists like Beyonce and Britney in the past few years and people wonder (Single Ladies? Radar? ) . And then look at veterans like Mariah, Madonna, Janet and Whitney. They have all turned their backs on the pop and rnb that made them superstars and in its place are horrible cds like Discipline, Memoirs, Hard Candy and I Look To You. The only truly decent mainstream new artist is Lady Gaga and even her music is horrid to a lot of people. Then there is Taylor Swift.

Music has just gone down the crapper

Yeah, there are lots of bad acts out but no more now than any other year. Boy bands and girl bands of the 90s were blacklisted as some of the worst music in history, yet look at their success and sales. At least auto-tune rap has pretty much ended, right?