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Music News: Billboard: All Albums will be released on Fridays
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Friday to be announced as global release day
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Global release day set for Friday, July 10
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The first date the global release day for new music will come into play is on Friday, July 10.
The news was confirmed to Music Week last night by sources, who said the IFPI have had the date secured for a while.
Last week it was announced that the Official Chart on Radio 1 will be moved to Fridays from July, suggesting that was the month the synchronised release date for new music would come into play too.
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http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/g...july-10/061320
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Global release day to go ahead following international consultation
26th February 2015
Following consultation with artists, musicians unions, record companies and retailers, it was confirmed today that the release day for new music will be aligned internationally on a Friday.
Release days currently vary from one country to another, causing frustration for consumers when music fans in other parts of the world can access new releases before them. As well as helping music fans, the move will benefit artists who want to harness social media to promote their new music. It also creates the opportunity to re-ignite excitement and a sense of occasion around the release of new music.
The move to an aligned global release day will also reduce the risk of piracy by narrowing the gap between release days in different countries.
Retailers internationally are committed to working with the labels and artist communities to ensure the successful implementation of the move to Friday.
From summer 2015, new albums and singles will be released at 00:01 local time on Fridays. Music consumers everywhere will know to look for new releases on Fridays regardless of where they are.
Consumer research by TNS across seven markets shows Friday and Saturday as the most preferred days for new music release among consumers who expressed an opinion. More than two thirds of those with a preference (68%) chose Friday or Saturday.
The move to a global release day follows several months of discussions between group representing retailers, record companies, artists and musicians unions.
The global release day consultation has included:
IFPI, representing some 1300 record labels worldwide;
FIM, representing musicians’ unions and associations globally
Featured Artists Coalition representing UK performers;
Leading retailers and representative organisations, including Australian Music Retailers Association (AMRA), E.Leclerc, El Corte Inglés, Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) (UK), HMV, Italian Association of Specialist Consumer Electronics Retailers (AIRES), Media-Saturn, Music Business Association (Music Biz US), Mondadori Retail, the Orchard, Rdio, Spotify, Napster.
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http://www.ifpi.org/news/Global-release-day-announced
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The IFPI is on the verge of announcing Friday as the chosen global release day, Music Week understands.
The move would bring all territories in line with Australia and Germany, amongst others, but would mean big changes in other countries including the UK and the US.
Music Week sources have said that US retailer Target could even drop music from its stores altogether as a result of the costs incurred.
Those in favour of choosing Friday as the global release day hope to benefit from higher footfall in shops at the end of the week.
Although she would not confirm the chosen global release day, or exactly when an announcement would be made, IFPI CEO Frances Moore told Music Week, "The whole dynamic of the global release day consultation has been driven by one thing and one thing only - how best to serve the music consumer."
"We've had a long consultation involving retailers artists and record labels, and we have looked at a large amount of insight and research. The good news has been the widespread support we've seen around the world for global release day - no one has seriously questioned the concept, the only debate has been about the day. The artist organisations and many retailers and record companies internationally support Friday, and this is backed by consumer research in many countries.
"There are other voices who prefer other days, and that's not surprising. It would be very surprising if a project like this, involving over 50 national markets, didn't lead to some objections in some markets. However, there is no doubt we have had a long and thorough consultation with the stakeholders involved and we now intend to make an announcement as soon as possible."
Those 'other voices' include Beggars Group boss Martin Mills who, during a speech at an ERA conference in London today, suggested that discussions around a global release day have not included the independent community – describing consultations as a “charade”.
“I have concerns about the proposed global release day,” he said. “Whilst I acknowledge the needs of a digital world for co-ordination, it seems to me to be crazy to throw away one of the trading week’s two peaks, and the ability to re-stock and rectify errors before the week’s second peak.
“It astounds me that the major labels are not listening to their customers, their interface with their artists’ fans. I fear their consultation has been a charade, and the market leaders were always going to push this through. I fear this move will also lead to a market in which the mainstream dominates, and the niche, which can be tomorrow’s mainstream, is further marginalised. I fear it will further cement the dominance of the few – and that that is exactly what it is intended to do.”
The IFPI confirmed discussions about a global release day with a range of stakeholders across the music industry in August last year – with a Friday release day being proposed at the time.
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http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/f...sources/060970
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This is great
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yas another reason to look forward to weekends. Wait I thought this included the US. We need to do that here tbh.
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Here for it then you have a weekend to enjoy the album instead of busy weekdays
Norway can never decide if they release on Friday or Monday, mostly Mondays lately but sometimes it's Fridays, especially for Norwegian acts so it's kinda messy
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I've been hearing this for over a year, is it actually happening now? I'd be here for it but I don't want retail stores to stop carrying music as a result.
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I actually like this idea
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beyonce, ha impact is real
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Finally something that could lead to a more transparant music environment, now we need to head to Spotify and iTunes having worldwide the same music available, No more country exclusives or country only releases etc.
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and you think they call her queen bey for nothing
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**** yes! Although I wouldn't be surprised if the UK still gets cockblocked with new music somehow.
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Monday is so much better... for singles and for albums. Friday is the end of the week
Monday seems cleaner if they want to globalize a national release. I'd even say Tuesday, but not Friday.
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Germany its impact. Been doing it for decades.
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Originally posted by LukaNavy
beyonce, ha impact is real
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Wait. Why is Bey being brought up? I think I kinda remember her name being thrown around the first time I read something like this but can't remember. Refresher, anyone?
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Also you aren't supposed to quote the entire article, only 50% fix that
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BTW single ha impact, actually
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