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Old 10-10-2004, 18:46
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what makes u buy a single or album?

what is the music industry lacking?
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Old 10-10-2004, 18:48
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waht are the current music trends and whats your favourite music genre?

who's the number one artist?
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Old 10-10-2004, 20:28
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I buy an album simply because I like the band and their music. How I get hear their music in the first place is through radio, music tv channels and downloads. I never buy singles, personally I feel they're a bit of a rip off.

Currently, the music industry is becoming too powerful. They believe people will buy whatever they tell them too, and now we're starting to see the result of this with the downturn in record sales. The chart is no long a representation of how good or popular an artist is, its just a measure of how powerful the record company is.

Personally I like rock music in general, but I'm quite open minded to other genres. However, looking at today's chart I've never heard of 5 of the artists in the top 10, and probably never will again. Artists are becoming very disposable, so what happens 10 years from now when the record companies have no back catalogue to fall back on?
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Old 11-10-2004, 13:45
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I never buy singles, i just buy albums. Although it REALLY annoys me, when i hear a great track on the radio, and the album sucks (happens loads).

With DVDs i belong to a DVD Rental service, where i rent DVDs, and if i like them, i then buy them, i wish someone oftered that with music, it would stop me wasting money on albums that have just one good song.
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Old 11-10-2004, 14:32
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I am in the fortunate position that I receive a lot of promo singles,
If I had to buy singles on a regular basis I would be severly miffed because you walk in to the record shop and in front of you there are sometimes as many as 3 different copies of the same track priced at £3.99 each then theres the dvd single etc, etc, total rip off.
Back in the good old days you got 7" 12" or cassette and if lucky a picture disc. Most people bought the 7" for the house, and then copied it on to tape for the car, dj's mostly bought the 12" for club work (ah the good old days).
The Music Industry blames downloads for killing the charts / singles sales, BOLLOCKS to that, I think that it would increase sales.
The wife askes me to download a track by say Joss Stone which I do and she listens, if she likes it she askes me to BUY the album which I do.
Downloads are not the problem to much choice nowdays is the real problem, umteen different music/video channels on the tv, bags of radio stations, music ringtones on your phone, all that and the rubbish of POP IDOL etc once the kids have voted to make Gareth/Will or Hearsay number 1 they dont have the money left to buy the single.

Rant over, glad I got that off my chest. (Ah the good old days)
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