The End Of The CD Single
from the what-a-surprise dept
It seems that an article like this shows up every few months, where folks in the record industry complain about the impending "death" of the CD single - and then go on to blame it on music downloading. You get the feeling, these days, that the recording industry doesn't need to try very hard to blame just about anything on downloading. First of all, who actually buys singles any more? They usually had one to four songs, and still cost almost as much as a full CD. It was a marketing problem, where the industry refused to price singles properly which is why very few people were buying them in the first place. Besides, my impression of the single was that it was solely intended as promotional material for the full album (despite the idiotic pricing). Looking at CD single sales as representative of just about anything isn't of much value.
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Sales aren't down because people are downloading songs, they're down because they're expecting everyone to like R&B. Which is stupid. I don't like it. Never have. Never will.
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