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Record Labels Struggle With the Album's Demise
Supplying yet more evidence, if more were needed, of the dire straits the music business increasingly finds itself in — reader cphilo sends us a NYTimes article about the death of the album as the mainstay of profit, and the record labels' struggle to adopt to the new realities. The article notes the trend of the labels signing artists for a single song, maybe two, and a ring tone.
Oh wait...
I wonder if I use bold in my signature, people will notice my posts.
Short attention spans? I don't think it's reasonable to lump all music liste
Yeah they are in Dire Straights. They need to Rush and abandon their Cheap Tricks and keep their Doors open to a new Genesis, or get crushed under the Rolling Stones of progress. One day when you mention the RIAA, your buddy will respond, "The Who?"
Who'd pay $10 - $15 for a CD of third rate material with effects and dynamic range compression 'compensating' for lack of artist talent?
That sounds pretty cool, I would! But.. I'm afraid of viruses. CD-s are scary...
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Ya, they would love that! Once it's Analog, it's hard to make a copy of a copy of a copy without degradation.
Analog = DRM because it's not digital!
Life is not for the lazy.
Not a politically correct thing to ask - but has anyone else ever wondered if the labels deliberately promote genres of music that are less appealing to the majority of file sharers ie. white young men?
It's the only explanation I can think of for R&B
One of these days I'm moving to Theory - everything works there
The three- to four-minute "song" has proved to be an incredibly popular format for popular music over the last century, and I don't think you can chalk that up entirely to the machinations of the RIAA (which, let's face it, was a pretty benign organization until fairly recently) or the "music industry." Probably a lot of credit goes to radio, but if people really hated individual songs, there's no way they'd be as popular as they are.
So, to sum up
The attention span of the average listener is typically 3-4 minutes. By contrast, fans of concept albums need 70 minutes of uninterrupted music, or until the drugs wear off, which ever comes first.
+Raider of the lost BBS
Sad and bald
I guess I'll be the one to tell you. THere's a flat spot between each song, you can just pick the needle up and place it down in the flat spot to here the next song.
Like what I said? You might like my music
"How were the Arctic Monkeys?"
"They were only on for 15 minutes"
Considering listening to more than 15 minutes of their music makes my ears bleed that would be a good thing. What? Everyone else here is portraying their musical preferences as some kind of ultimate standard of musical quality so why can't I do the same? I have relatives in Sheffield so if I want to listen to half stoned imbeciles gibbering rubbish in a northern accent I can pick up the phone.
Please, don't insult Tom Waits anymore by putting him along with Gorillaz. Please. :)
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