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Great piece! I'm gonna sound like my old man now, but 'they don't make 'em like they used to'...thank christ they don't have Pop Idol over here in Israel...
Ashley | Homepage | 11.02.04 - 9:31 a.m. | #
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I've written a piece about how record companies make huge profits without even trying. Recording contracts are so one sided that the artist takes all the financial risk, while the companies take virtually none.
That said, they've got to charge four quid for a single to keep the drug money rolling in.
Scaryduck | 11.02.04 - 9:38 a.m. | #
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*stands up applauding*
"bravo!"
great post.
dave | Homepage | 11.02.04 - 9:55 a.m. | #
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I think my sarcasm detector just blew up.
john | Homepage | 11.02.04 - 12:01 p.m. | #
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Well said! Illegal copying has been around for a long time. The reason sales are dropping is because it is expensive, for a pile of shite!
annipink | Homepage | 11.02.04 - 12:58 p.m. | #
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Very true - the real reasons sales are dropping are because singles are ludicrously overpriced (certainly in comparison with albums) and because what's churned out and forced upon us is, by and large, a big load of shite.
Ben | Homepage | 11.02.04 - 1:09 p.m. | #
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Please, however, don't forget the dance music industry - which is very much alive and kicking. ESPECIALLY on the single (ok 12") front.
Anna | Homepage | 11.02.04 - 4:16 p.m. | #
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I agree with Anna on the dance music industry thing, this is where the innovation is. You can keep your rock and pop, oldhat!
I might be wrong in saying this but it seems to me that the record companies release the album then release the singles. Who wants to buy singles when they've all been heard a thousand times already?
pittuf | 11.02.04 - 6:37 p.m. | #
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And all available at your nearest HMV store.
Darren | Homepage | 11.02.04 - 10:13 p.m. | #
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But in the same report that said single sales were down and the internet was to blame, it also said that album sales are up. Is the internet to blame for this as well???
Debster | 12.02.04 - 12:18 a.m. | #
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The internet is to blame for *everything*. Even the stuff that happened before it came into being.
Douglas | 12.02.04 - 12:28 a.m. | #
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Well written rant at a target fully deserving of it. Well played.
*clap, clap, clap*
Ilmarinen | 13.02.04 - 11:40 p.m. | #
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So, Ronan only got to number 2 in the charts. You didn't go out and buy enough copies did you? Thanks.
But the new Number 1 is a sub-Chesney Beatles cover by two Pop Idol failures, and is quite possibly the worst Number 1 record ever. Ever.
The Single, RIP.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 15.02.04 - 6:57 p.m. | #
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