Make better music, major labels told
p2pnet news | Music:- “The music industry needs to concentrate on making better music if it wants to revive its fortunes, says veteran entertainment journalist and music historian Larry LebBlanc.
Interviewed during a nationally televised CTV Canada A.M. show, the major labels should perhaps, “take a look at the stores,” he told CTV’s Seamus O’Regan.
“There’s a lot of crappy music out there. There’s a lot of music that people aren’t interested in.”
LeBlanc also said CD sales or radio airplay aren’t the only barometers of determining how well the music industry is doing.
Bands selling music at shows is an example of music being made available outside of traditional music retail channels and wouldn’t show up on industry charts, he pointed out, going on that the selling of music through digital avenues will continue to grow but online music retailers need to decide on a consistent pricing system.
But LeBlanc also believes the current model won’t be completely phased out.
“I think the CD is still alive,” he said. “It will thrive but not in the way that we see it right now. It might be extra value – I think people still like the shopping experience. I’ll tell you what is dead. The bad album with only one track is dead.”
LeBlanc added catalogue sales had masked the fact that new music releases were in decline for years.
When catalog sales slowed and ‘big box’ stores competitively drove the price of music down, according to LeBlanc, it made the music industry’s struggles more apparent.
But ultimately, LeBlanc says the feels the problems facing the music industry are
directly linked to its product, adding:
“I think what the industry has to get back to is good music.”
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September 22nd, 2007 at 10:16 am
“I think the CD is still alive,” he said. “It will thrive but not in the way that we see it right now. It might be extra value – I think people still like the shopping experience. I’ll tell you what is dead. The bad album with only one track is dead.”
What exactly is he trying to say? He’s contradicting himself!
90% of the “new music” on CD’s is crap any way…they ARE the “The bad album with only one (decent) track”!
September 22nd, 2007 at 11:04 am
They can make all the better music they want.
Im still not going to buy it.
why should I when it’s available for free online.
that would just be stupid to throw your money away on something you can get for free.
Some people say “But you can’t see the cover art or hold the physical product.
IT’s MUSIC! If I wanted art, Id buy a wall hanging.
And once I burn the mp3 to cd-r I can hold the physical product all I want.
September 22nd, 2007 at 12:50 pm
These initiate a mass litigation campaign, then expect the victims of the litigation to buy(read: license) from them. Haha. I will never spend any money on their so called products ever again!, and I’m no the only one. Their attempts to gain sympathy are specious, and easily penetrated.
I like music, listen to music, and I am prepared to spend money on it. However, that money will never be received by these corporate monstrosities. Instead, i support independent artists whom i like.
September 22nd, 2007 at 2:06 pm
“They can make all the better music they want.
Im still not going to buy it.. . . . . why should I when it’s available for free online.”
RIAA drone talking I guess!
First the music cartel does not make music even bad one. They are just parasites like you that profite from it like tap worm sucking up food.
Second we are still not going to buy it not because we are BOYCOTTING! not because it’s free online.
What’s free on line are lossy compressed files significantly inferior to the CD. We want better sound quality than CD not less.
Tell your master that we had enought of them and that there is some serious consequences for messing-up with our laws and our constitution and that if I was them I will be packing up right now!
September 22nd, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Correction: Second we are still not going to buy it because we are BOYCOTTING!
September 22nd, 2007 at 3:43 pm
The day sue’em all started was the day I ceased to purchase music. I switched to buying movies until the MPAA joined the club. When that occured they joined the list.
What none of the cartels can do is remove money from my wallet without my say so. That is not going to happen.
September 22nd, 2007 at 10:48 pm
My Mp3’s are not lousy compressed files, there 200-300+ K files and they sound Dam Good
September 23rd, 2007 at 5:19 am
THE MUSIC BUSINESS, AS WE KNOW IT, IS MOSTLY A SCAM
I have said it many time, the music industry, to survive, must sell good music at a low cost. After all, the customers have many options to spend their entertainment money.
Entertaiment is not a basic need as is food, housing, transportation, health and education. Entertainment is not needed to survive. This, along with the fact that music lovers, artists and songwriters are catching on to the ways of the music industry and the more options available may actually be destroying the business as we know it. Isn’t that great!
On the other hand the arts and entertainment are needed to enjoy life. Too, culture is need for the survival of the tribe or nation. After all, who wants to be like a foreigner, just because the foreigner has the most money and military strenght?
What does it all mean? The people in the music busines, should mostly get out. The business should be run by people with culture, not necessarily with legal and advertising (almost all advetisement is desgned to fool all the people all the time) skills, the skill that apparently most record companies use in their de-facto musical business AND SUE-THE-CUSTOMER scams.
September 23rd, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Make better music? Bollocks; our cretinous customers wouldn’t know good music if it slapped them in the face. You can see how we are successfully suing our bastard customers into remaining the compliant consumers that we want them to be.
In fact, we’ll soon get to the point where we don’t need to create any more product or even make the old one available any more. By continuing to manipulate our sock puppet American government, consumers will simply be paying us money as an ever increasing tax!