Why I’m Not Going To ‘Complete My Album(s)’
Much has been made recently of Apple’s decision to let iTunes users ‘Complete My Album.’ I actually don’t think that it will have much of an impact, if any.
Essentially, what Apple is offering through the iTunes Music Store, is for consumers who purchased individual songs to have the option to buy the album for […]
The CD Is Not Dead…Yet
Justin Gross from Slate.com gets it almost exactly right in his article, “The CD is Dead!”
In the article, he ably defends the CD’s existence by pointing out that a lot of people are still buying music in CD form.
He is right to say that the CD is not dead…yet.
As Justin writes, “…Plenty of baby boomers […]
“The Music Industry Is In Trouble”
In the interest of full disclosure, let me first say that I have been a Counting Crows fan from the very beginning.
Charlie Gillingham, the keyboard player and multi-instrumentalist from Counting Crows recently answered some questions about the state of the music industry on the Crows website.
The post is titled “The Music Industry Is In Trouble.”
Charlie […]
Modest Mouse at Number #1 (with 27% Digital)
I mentioned yesterday that Modest Mouse’s We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank has done very well so far. Now, it has officially landed at number #1 on the Billboard charts.
And apparently, 27% of sales of the album have been digital. In 2006, only 10% of all music sales were digital.
Whether this is the […]
“I Think The Album Is Going To Die”
The New York Times has a story on “the death of the album.” It says the trend in the industry is towards selling singles in digital download form from stores like Apple’s iTunes, instead of focusing on selling entire albums.
‘I think the album is going to die,’ said Aram Sinnreich, managing partner at Radar Research, […]
