Artists blame iTunes for changed music tastes
Online music sales continue to skyrocket at the expense of CDs. iTunes continues to be the leader of the pack, too, not only in online sales, but music sales overall. But a small rebellion is brewing against iTunes as artists become disgruntled with the hit they’re taking on overall album sales thanks to the now-wildly-popular method of cherry-picking favorite tracks for download.
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Album-loving artists blame iTunes for changed music tastes
We must look at the fact that most people only care about a few songs on any given album… why should they have to buy the whole thing. If artists as a whole would make more memorable albums, they may have a chance of selling the whole thing. This is nothing new… I grew up purchasing 45s and cassette singles. For one, I didn’t always have the money to buy the whole album. Second, I usually didn’t want the whole thing anyway. It’s simple… make an album like “The Wall” of “Sgt. Peppers” and we will buy it all… keep giving us 1 or 2 singles and 10 crap songs and we won’t. It really is that simple.
admin said this on August 29th, 2008 at 9:07 am