Crappy Music Sells, But Not That Well
2005 will go down on record as a year of tumult, chaos and handheld wireless devices that almost work. Bookended by natural disasters, shrouded by political scandal and glossed over by consumerism, the year produced music with no conscience, no interest in the world and no capacity to sustain long-term album sales.
“Album sales dropped again in 2005: Mass-market hits felt disposable, like a momentary pleasure rather than like something worth owning.
The best-selling album released last year was Mariah Carey's Emancipation of Mimi, which shuns eccentricities to offer radio-ready R&B songs about hooking up, breaking up and making up. In the last weeks of December, its sales edged out the routine gangsta rap of 50 Cent's Massacre, which substitutes belligerence for romance but is no less circumscribed.” (Pareles, 1)
The music industry is failing and they say it’s your fault for downloading instead of paying for your music. It may take a few more years before these buttholes learn to sell you something that’s actually worth paying for.
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posted by Balls @ 3:25 PM
1 Comments:
Beyond what you brought up, I just gotta point out that the music in the last few years has fallen short. In fact, since the mid 90's, our media moguls have produced nothing but "toilet seat rock" or music that uses marketing figures and buying stats as models for musical innovation rather than "artist vision" (if such a thing has even existed in the last 10 years). Therefore, the blame for record sales that have fallen short as of late lies in the hands of the market research and media advertising influence on the consumer. Sadly, nothing about these sales has anything to do with quality of music; but rather quality of marketing and advertising departments. My solution, industry-wide pay increases and more stringent screening methods for advertising and marketing staffs.
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