It's official, music companies are dead
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http://www.nme.com/news/rihanna/65480?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fanpage-nmenews-rihanna Rihanna tops UK album (a BIG market) weekly list with only 10000 copies. The lowest figure in charts history. Anyone with 200000 pounds or so could buy himself to #1
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21st Century Paul:
http://www.nme.com/news/rihanna/65480?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fanpage-nmenews-rihanna Rihanna tops UK album (a BIG market) weekly list with only 10000 copies. The lowest figure in charts history. Anyone with 200000 pounds or so could buy himself to #1
Adele and country acts are the only artists moving any real units these days. Karma has finally caught up with the greedy music business that over-charged consumers for years.
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21st Century Paul:
http://www.nme.com/news/rihanna/65480?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fanpage-nmenews-rihanna Rihanna tops UK album (a BIG market) weekly list with only 10000 copies. The lowest figure in charts history. Anyone with 200000 pounds or so could buy himself to #1
Adele and country acts are the only artists moving any real units these days. Karma has finally caught up with the greedy music business that over-charged consumers for years.
I'm not distorting reality I guess. 10000 records in the UK for a #1 is a ridiculous figure. Actually simply doing a video clip cost more money that all the money that sales can get. Anyone could make it to the charts buying their own records, it's surreal... You just buy some of your own records for your friends as a present and you will get into the national charts!
(Like: "How did I get here?" "Congratulations, boy, you made it") * one year ago or so, the copies needed to enter Spain's top 100 were just 100 copies, so I guess now they're even less 30?, 50? -
the point of this is that is now obvious record companies now are irrelevant. Another news is that, for the first time ever, the sales of old records surpass the sales of new records. What's happenning is that New Music stops selling and people only stick to buying classic albums and greatest hits. The hability of the industry to bring new artists is not zero yet but close to zero. And it seems that very soon it will dissapear completely, leaving record sales as sales of oldies but no new artist. Who's going to spend money into marketing with that sales? Only pre-existing product will sale, like the Beatles records. No new big hits or new Big things anymore.
