Girl, bye! Everything about Beyoncé is overrated. People have SEVERELY overestimated the impact of BEYONCE. It's sold 3 million WW and has had 1 top 10 in the US. That isn't anything special or amazing, just because she sold those albums quickly doesn't really mean much. The majority of the pop girls have similar or even better era's regularly.
Everything about what she did was influential and progressive in an industry constantly looking for ways to excite the bored consumer.
Apple Inc.’s music chief Robert Kondrk has been pressuring major labels for releases similar to last year's Beyonce exclusive, excluding services like YouTube and Spotify to help shore up slowing download sales, according to music executives familiar with the conversations.
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The tense talks with label executives during Grammy Week in Los Angeles in January were spurred by Beyonce’s success in launching her self-titled album exclusively on iTunes in December for one week, during which the album was only sold in its entirety. After the first week in which it did 1 million copies globally, the album was available for sale at other retailers, and fans were able to buy tracks separately. Crucially, the pop diva kept the album off streaming services for the first week, but made two of the album’s 14 tracks available on Spotify the second week after release. Even her official YouTube videos were kept to 30-second teasers.
As music download sales decline--digital track sales fell 5.7% from 1.34 billion units to 1.26 billion units in 2013, according to Nielsen SoundScan--Apple is pressing music labels to think about possible windowing strategies as a way to buoy faltering sales.
Apple operates the world’s largest music store and recently introduced an Internet radio service, but it does not have an on-demand music service similar to Spotify or YouTube. As a result, the iPhone and iPad maker has an interest in finding ways to preserve its iTunes sales business, which plays a vital strategic role in its overall content to hardware ecosystem.
In the meetings during Grammy Week, Apple’s iTunes contingent, led by Kondrk, even suggested the albums don't even have to be exclusive to iTunes, and that labels could give albums to other stores as well – but not streaming services. Republic Records’ artist Kid Cudi this week released his album ‘Satellite Flight’ exclusively to digital retailers -- led by iTunes.
Ironically, Kondrk also asked that individual track sales be locked down for a window of time before allowing tracks to be purchased separately making the album available to streaming services, said executives from two major labels. This runs contrary to the album unbundling strategy first negotiated by Apple founder Steve Jobs with his original iTunes store label deal in 2003.
Kondrk’s sales pitch may have been just what label executives wanted to hear. The industry has been ambivalent about YouTube and other streaming services, which pay slowly over time as people stream tracks compared to the immediate payoff of album sales.
“The iTunes theory was that because of the easy availability to access albums on YouTube it has punctured sales globally for track and albums," says one major label executive who is familiar with the iTunes complaint.
The majority of my faves are irrelevant flops, so that wouldn't be hard. However, P!nk has sold more albums, had more top 10's and also had a very successful tour this era. BEYONCE won't sell as much as the TTAL, it won't have a #1 single and it'll be very lucky to have another top 10.
P!nk's sales are impressive but then again Men tend to dominate the music industry more than women so shame on Beyoncé for being a Black Woman in this day and age in the music industry.
Flawless and DIL are the only two songs I can bring myself to listen to nowadays. ARTPOP wins the race by having MANiCURE, JnD, DWUW, MJH and Donatella
You deserve to lose much more than that for the lie you have just told.
TTT > Loud
GGGB> Loud
RR > Loud
TTT is really bad apart the first half.
Unapologetic comes close but those urban snoozefests kinda pull it down.
GGGB has Breakin Dishes so it comes close.
Loud is enjoyable from start to finish (I removed Tacki's rap verse)
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