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iTunes Sales Ban Does Increase CD Sales

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sounds-logical dept.

Guinnessy writes "According to the New York Times, some music labels have deliberately stopped selling some new singles on online stories such as iTunes or Rhapsody while promoting songs on the radio, so that listeners will rush out to buy the CD album instead. The album appears in itunes at a later date. Not everyone seems to think this is a good idea. From the article: 'The labels are shooting themselves in the foot,' says Rhapsody's Tim Quirk. However, Ne-Yo's CD In My Own Words sold 301,000 copies using this method. Chris Brown's Run It, that was in the itunes store, sold 154,000 copies in its first week. Ne-Yo's So Sick was downloaded approximately 3.4 million times on the peer to peer networks during the week of his album release while the album Run It!"was downloaded approximately 5.3 million times in the same release period."

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  1. Overheard at the RIAA by zubinjdalal · · Score: 2, Funny

    I want the names and addresses of those millions NOW!

  2. In other news... by zubinjdalal · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... people turn to newspapers after leading news agencies refuse to publish new content and breaking news on their websites.

  3. Oh, yeah... by tool462 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nothing more statistically meaningful than a single data point! Their powers of extrapolation are mind boggling!

    1. Re:Oh, yeah... by Coryoth · · Score: 4, Funny
      Nothing more statistically meaningful than a single data point! Their powers of extrapolation are mind boggling!

      They are simply applying Vesilind's laws of experimentation:
      1. If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once.
      2. If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points.


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    2. Re:Oh, yeah... by tool462 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I used that in some of my physics labs ;)

  4. finally the truth by tehwebguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    now that we've compared 2 artists we finally know the truth about music consumer habits!

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  5. They should have taken the blue pill.... by TheDukePatio · · Score: 2, Funny

    Noone will in about a year. With a name like "Ne-Yo" I smell marketing gimmick all the way. Record companies only care about what will make them cash now.

    I predict Ne-Yo's successors will a group named "Tri-Nitee" and some chick with a large wardrobe named "Morph-Eus"

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  6. Re:CD sales is not the point! by ShibaInu · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's see, if I'm a record exec and I see a digital copy of a song sell 3 million copies, which cost me nothing to reproduce or distribute, why do I care about CDs at all? Selling 300K CDs is pretty good in a week, but the lable had to press and ship all those CDs. They sent one digital copy to iTunes and sold 3 million, and they are complaining? These folks are really working hard at being stupid.

  7. Maybe they didn't consider... by Kelz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe they didn't consider the fact that maybe people liked one song/album better than the other?! Tomorrow in the news: Sales of online-ordered giant broccoli stumps plummeted today whilst store-bought beer flourished. Is this the end of online-ordering?!

  8. (Light goes on) Dang! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    the default physical medium for music sales has changed. it isn't Edison cylinders, Brunswick 77s (all "78" record makers used a different speed), 3-3/4 IPS 4-track tapes, or CDs, (has) become electronic

    So that's why I can't find a portable player for my 16 2/3 rpm 16-inch transcription disks! Mystery solved at last.

  9. Re:Only if. by yurnotsoeviltwin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't give them any ideas.