telegraph.co.uk— Big name rock acts are now rethinking their presence on iTunes because the singles vs albums sales equation simply isn't working for them.
Sep 25, 2008View in Crawl 4
So if, after given the option of either buying all your songs or just the good ones, the consumer purchases fewer songs shouldn't you consider the possibility that it's the fault of your product rather than your distribution? Since iTunes is the number one music retailer, I doubt they're being exposed any less than in the heyday of the CD-only world. Next thing you know they'll be looking to the government for a bailout because, "those mean consumers abandoned us!"
Man these artists are retarded. You would think this would be a no brainer. "Hmm I'm selling a s**t load of this one hit song but nothing else" Well duh dumbasses. Sometimes stupidity makes me angry. Now Rise Against - Suffering of the Witness is an album I would pay full price for. It's the only album I actually had my wife buy in the past several years for us. I'm sorry but Itunes is not to blame. Like everyone else has said it's the s**tty filler music. I used to buy CDs and was disappointed time and time again by only having 1 or 2 songs I liked and the rest were total crap. I welcome the iTunes model of buying only the song you actually like.
Yeah instead of buying full albums from the okay artists your buying one or 2 songs from multiple artists okay artists. It's a vicious cycle for those artists and their mostly s**t music.
How about a comprimise? During the 1st month of sales (or whatever time line necessary) the album can only be purchased as a whole. After that Itunes automatically sells the rest as singles. You get the best of both worlds.
This is all about greed....plain and simple. Bands are too lazy to put together 10 or 12 decent songs. They release a CD with two or three songs worth listening to and want you to buy the whole thing so they can make their Ferrari payments.
audionet1Sep 25, 2008
So if, after given the option of either buying all your songs or just the good ones, the consumer purchases fewer songs shouldn't you consider the possibility that it's the fault of your product rather than your distribution? Since iTunes is the number one music retailer, I doubt they're being exposed any less than in the heyday of the CD-only world. Next thing you know they'll be looking to the government for a bailout because, "those mean consumers abandoned us!"
mrviklundSep 25, 2008
LOL.What a junk article. it's like saying - Bands abandon CDs because they don't want to sell their music.
addiktionSep 26, 2008
Man these artists are retarded. You would think this would be a no brainer. "Hmm I'm selling a s**t load of this one hit song but nothing else" Well duh dumbasses. Sometimes stupidity makes me angry. Now Rise Against - Suffering of the Witness is an album I would pay full price for. It's the only album I actually had my wife buy in the past several years for us. I'm sorry but Itunes is not to blame. Like everyone else has said it's the s**tty filler music. I used to buy CDs and was disappointed time and time again by only having 1 or 2 songs I liked and the rest were total crap. I welcome the iTunes model of buying only the song you actually like.
addiktionSep 26, 2008
Yeah instead of buying full albums from the okay artists your buying one or 2 songs from multiple artists okay artists. It's a vicious cycle for those artists and their mostly s**t music.
Closed AccountSep 26, 2008
Burial should have won that prize anyway.
gruntboyxSep 26, 2008
How about a comprimise? During the 1st month of sales (or whatever time line necessary) the album can only be purchased as a whole. After that Itunes automatically sells the rest as singles. You get the best of both worlds.
smacd75Sep 26, 2008
This is all about greed....plain and simple. Bands are too lazy to put together 10 or 12 decent songs. They release a CD with two or three songs worth listening to and want you to buy the whole thing so they can make their Ferrari payments.
r3zonanceSep 26, 2008
"I hope Apple realizes that changing everything to "Album Only" = Bankruptcy."They do, that's why the "Album Only" bands are jumping ship :D
pimpinkidSep 30, 2008
I'm not suprised, itunes just isn't benefiting artists anymore.