Singles, Not Albums, Define Music Industry Success

athloi writes "Despite the tough times for albums, the music industry is slowly but surely learning the most important lesson of all: give consumers what they want, and they happily open their wallets. Digital music sales are a new business and a new way of thinking about and interacting with content. The industry should be paying closer attention to its meteoric rise and less attention to the dying, arcane album. It should absolutely drop the rhetoric about how piracy is destroying the business, because the sea change in sales patterns shows that something else is is afoot. It means that when users are sitting at a computer and looking for music, more and more each year are turning to legal download services."

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Piracy

[Anonymous Coward]

It should absolutely drop the rhetoric about how piracy is destroying the business, because the sea change in sales patterns shows that something else is is afoot. It means that when users are sitting at a computer and looking for music, more and more each year are turning to legal download services. This is a ridiculous argument. Of course more and more each year are turning to legal download services, more and more are turning to download services, period. More and more are turning to illegal download services too. The fact that there are still customers buying a product does not make theft meaningless or irrelevant.

This kind of bullshit angers me. The poster uses the word "piracy", acknowledging (one might assume) the fact that this kind of behavior is nothing short of outright theft, yet still labels the concern of the music industry with their music being stolen as "rhetoric". Ugh.

arcane? ARCANE?

[straponego]

You can't figure out how an album works? Do you mean archaic?

You know what's arcane, at least around here? Fucking dictionaries. Apparently.