Download verses cd single / vinyl.. Taylor Swift for example
I can't see where the thrill is in buying a piece of "air". 1 track that when you eventually get bored of, you delete. Then 2 years later when you want to hear it, it's gone.
A cd single with 8 minute remix, live track, or brand new track, a cover version maybe. What's not to like.
What Taylor Swift fans will buy Bad Blood if they have the album?
A cd single with 8 minute remix, live track, or brand new track, a cover version maybe. What's not to like.
What Taylor Swift fans will buy Bad Blood if they have the album?
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My g-g-g-generation grew up buying albums. I still do. Had a brief flirtation with singles during the punk years but would never download a single. It just seems pointless and how would I play it on my hi-fi? (I can, via wi-fi, DAC etc but it's nowhere near as easy as putting vinyl on the turntable).
Whereas people brought up on downloads probably think taking an album out of its sleeve, cleaning it, manually positioning the stylus over the groove etc is unbelievably labour intensive when they can just say "Siri, play Bad Blood" and their phone does all the work for them.
I do already have Taylor's album so I won't be buying the single. I rarely buy singles. I'm an album buyer.
I would prefer to buy CD singles, but when they are £5 (!!) on Amazon, I'd much rather just buy the song for 99p on iTunes, especially if it's by an artist I don't really like, or would never buy an album from (e.g. Rita Ora) or for a one-off song that I heard in an advert, for example.
In the early 00's they introduced 2 tracks which were often just not worth the plastic they were burned onto.
I love my singles, but these day I only buy them for my absolutely favourite artists. They are a rip off.
I was obsessed with buying cd's when I was growing up and I have 1000's now and I just can't be bothered having any more.
If you're not a big buyer and have space then that's good but everyone's different.
I just download albums now because it's just easier as it doesn't take up physical space which I prefer. I also got Taylor's album for 99p on google play the other week which was much better than paying for the CD.
Well Taylor has released a remixed bad blood with kendrick Lamar, so I'm guessing her fans will buy it as it's not on the album.
Yup. The standard and deluxe album versions of BB are currently in the iTunes top 40 as well as the Kendrick Lamar version so someone is still buying it.
Possibly not, but at least us CD lovers got our money's worth. I'll be honest, I have tons of CD singles, but only a handful still get played on a semi-regular basic.
I'll use Madonna as a recent example. Her latest single was released on a lame 2-track CD. Why? It would have been just as easy to have put all ten of the songs remixes onto a CD, and in doing so would have sold a more copies. Pet Shop Boys and Erasure have been doing just that for years, and Madonna would gain much more financially than PSBs and Erasure.
I do think labels should have done more with the format. I believe 25 minutes is the maximum time allowed on a single to make it chart eligable. There is no excuse for 2 songs for £2.99 or even £1.99. They should have filled them up. And as for them not being profitable, i've always said, show people them and they will buy them. It's the same with vinyl now. People keep saying vinyl is back! The truth is it never went away. I think most people go to their local supermarket and whatever is there is there. If it's not there then it must not exist. How many of you knew HMV did CD singles in 2011? How many new vinyl buyers knew that it never went away and their local HMV probably had it for years but they just never knew or never wanted to bother looking? If labels had CD singles at £1.99 with 4 or 5 songs on it i bet people would buy them. And put them on stands, front of store, front of the music section, entertainment section or whatever. Put them where people can see them and give them value for money and they WILL buy them.