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Martin Brooks
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From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: May 2002
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posted 02-05-2011 05:50 PM
quote: Jonathan Goeldner
^ yet vinyl is making a comeback
Not really...that's just hype.
2.9 million LPs were sold in 2008 and 3.2 million were sold in 2009. While that's growth, that constitutes only 0.17% of unit sales, 0.79% of long-form unit sales (albums) and 0.77% of music industry revenue (at list price). 2010 sales might have been a bit higher (official numbers not out yet), but it's still nothing more than a rounding error. (In the heyday of vinyl, a single album could sell that many units in a year.)
The music industry is dying quickly. The industry is now half of the size it was in 1999, its peak year and that doesn't even include inflation. Citibank took over EMI this week and put it on the market quickly in order to beat Time-Warner putting Warner Music Group on the market and if anyone buys these, it won't be for the labels, but for the music publishing.
In fact, the last two weeks hit records for the lowest number of sales ever resulting in a Billboard #1 hit: I think it was around 50,000 copies.
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
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From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 02-05-2011 11:25 PM
quote: Martin Brooks
The music industry is dying quickly. The industry is now half of the size it was in 1999, its peak year and that doesn't even include inflation. Citibank took over EMI this week and put it on the market quickly in order to beat Time-Warner putting Warner Music Group on the market and if anyone buys these, it won't be for the labels, but for the music publishing.
You know, this might actually be a good thing.
IMHO, the biggest problem with the music industry, by far, has been its ownership by a handful of giant, multi-national media corporations. Giant, publicly traded companies hate risk. They don't like taking chances on new ideas, particuarly any sort of unproven style of new music. They very much prefer to sell the public the same old shit but give the music different, younger faces and updated packaging. Media corporations have held tight fisted control over what kinds of music are distributed for more than 20 years.
The music industry doesn't work well under those conditions. The music industry thrives on change. That involves taking chances on new talent with very different musical styles that aren't yet market proven. That's risky. And big businesses hate risk.
Decades ago big changes in musical styles could make or break a record label. Music companies that have big corporate parents can afford to take chances, but a bad choice will negatively affect the company stock, so the corporate parent forces its record label to make very conservative, safe choices on what to produce.
The music industry has not had a healthy house-cleaning of musical styles since 1990. Prior to that, every few years we would see big changes. Sales have been declining for a decade because the overall product is stale. Compare the performers and music of the 1970s or 1980s to today's crop of popular music. There's no contest. The 20-30 year old stuff is way better. With today's music sounding so derivative on average it actually helps "dinosaur bands" stick around and keep raking in big bucks on concert tours. If the industry was allowing the natural cycle of artistic change to take place a lot of dinosaur bands would be forced to call it a day and retire.
The movie industry has been repeating the same nonsense as well. But it's no coincidence. Movie studios are owned by the same companies that own all the music labels.
I think the stifling control on music is also hurting changes in the technology of how music is presented. I think if there was a lot more successful independent labels we would also be seeing more music distributed in a wider variety of ways.
I'm rooting for Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross to win the Best Score Oscar for The Social Network. The independent Null label has made the soundtrack available to buy in a variety of formats: Internet downloads in MP3, Flac Lossless or Apple Lossless; a standard music CD priced significantly lower than what most new CDs cost; a 180g vinyl LP double album; a Blu-ray Audio disc featuring high resolution stereo and 5.1 mixes.
With less corporate involvement there's a small chance we could see a return to proper music mastering practices rather than the stupid crap we have now where the mastering folks artificially jack up the volume, compress the dynamics and clip the audio peaks all to hell.
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