AC/DC Black Ice ‘Red Hot’
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- The Canadian Press has Aussie group AC/DC’s Black Ice at the top of Canada’ s CD sales list, based on national sales for the week ending October 22.
Their first album in eight years, it was released on October 18 for Australia, and October 20 for the rest of the world.
Enter p2P file sharing.
“For those Americans about to rock, AC/DC salutes you. Unless, that is, you want to buy the Australian heavy metal group’s newest album, Black Ice, on iTunes, or anywhere but Wal-Mart,” says the Calgary Herald.
“Maybe I’m just being old-fashioned, but this iTunes, God bless ‘em, it’s going to kill music if they’re not careful,” according to lead singer Brian Johnson in the story.
iTunes? There’s a little more than that involved.
“Rock fans have flagrantly ignored legendary rockers AC/DC’s determination to keep their latest album off both legal and illegal download services,” says Australian newspaper The Age.
iTunes will rip you off $20 for the album and, “In Australia, local label Sony BMG began marketing the new album back in August by flooding old AC/DC albums into stores,” the story says, going on:
“The band became the first act to have six albums in the ARIA Top 50 albums chart simultaneously.”
Sony BMG’s official line was, “it still expected diehard fans to buy the album despite many already downloading it but, “Melbourne music stores contacted by The Age yesterday had yet to receive the album,” says the item.
“A label insider said deliveries were being held back to stop stores selling copies early. But the decision matters little to those who have already illegally downloaded the release.”
Did we mention the story in The Age was published on October 17?
Black Ice was, “the most downloaded album on the web this past week” with an average, “100,000 rock fans a day downloading the album this week,” said The Age, quoting Net monitoring service Big Champagne
File sharing and downloads automatically equal massive losses in sales, claim the Big 4 record labels Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and, of course, Sony BMG.
And yet yesterday, Black Ice at the top of Canada’ s CD sales list.
Not only but also, “AC/DC’s ‘Black Ice’ is flying off the shelves at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club, the exclusive U.S. retailers for the album that arrived yesterday (Oct. 21),” says Billboard.
“Sources estimate the set sold 193,000 copies in its first day of sale, and could move upward of 800,000 in its first week.”
Is there a message buried in there somewhere, do you think?
Canadian Press – HMV Canada: “Black Ice” by AC/DC tops CD sales list, October 23, 2008
Calgary Herald – AC/DC gives iTunes the cold shoulder, October 23, 2008
The Age – A million people have heard the new AC/DC album, but no one has bought it, October 17, 2008
Billboard - AC/DC’s ‘Ice’ Red Hot At Retail, October 22, 2008
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October 24th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Or they could just officially make the whole album downloadable, just like Radiohead and NIN. It worked amazingly well, and turned out to be a huge financial success for both of them. Of course, much of the reason was because they ditched their record company and released it themselves. If only more big-name artists would do the same. I’d mention the artist formerly known as Prince, but he’s been quite an a-hole when it comes to file sharing.
October 24th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Not sure, if I buy this album at Walmart does the RIAA see any of that money? Asking because if they don’t I will buy it however if they do downloading will be my prefered method.
October 24th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
” if I buy this album at Walmart does the RIAA see any of that money ? ”
Yes. They are Sony puppets.
” Asking because if they donât I will buy it however if they do downloading will be my prefered method. ”
I would never advocate that, even with the incontrovertable proof that this ( as well as many other ) albums
have obviously NOT been hurt in the sales department by file sharers. once again strong sales prove that
fans will pay for what they like and want to support.
Watch for it in a second hand CD store ( before those are made illegal ), that way they get none of your cash.
If we eliminate all RIAA stuff from P2P, and their sales are still for shit, they no longer have anyone to blame
but themselves.
October 25th, 2008 at 1:24 am
It irritated me a little that I could not download this CD on Amazon. Not only would it have been cheaper, but it wold have saved me gas and time. What kind of crap is this exclusively at Wal-Mart.
November 8th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Why would anyone want to download AC/DC latest effort,Black Ice is totally boring,the band are great live,there studio albums are nothing more than retreads,since fly on the wall,give me German band Accept anyday