Posted on 12/22/2014 8:30:54 AM PST by a fool in paradise
According to the Guardian, she released them to iTunes Saturday and has sold numerous units:
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/dec/21/madonna-album-hack-living-state-terror
On Saturday, Madonna unexpectedly released six tracks from Rebel Heart on iTunes, following the leak of the unfinished songs earlier in the week: the album itself is not due for release until March. She immediately reached No 1 in the iTunes chart in 36 countries, a situation she described as a miracle...
Last year, Kanye West’s keenly anticipated album Yeezus appeared in full online in advance of its release, ironically four hours after the website buzzfeed.com published a feature detailing the painstaking security around the album – which apparently included storing the music on a hard drive in an airtight, watertight case that could withstand the impact of a plane crash or tsunami – under the headline 8 Reasons You Won’t Hear Yeezus Early.
But Madonna suggested the leak of her demos differed from previous security breaches – frequently traced back to employees of record companies or recording studios – because other non-musical material appeared online at the same time...
She lost the element of surprise. And right or wrong, often the first version heard of a song becomes “the right way to play it”.
There are a number of hits that are covers of other peoples’ songs. Tommy James sought out such a “hit ready” song (Mony Mony) after seeing the Riveras make a hit out of someone else’s song (California Sun) that was already a live hit for a number of regional bands.
Elvis reportedly would base his covers of songs off the first version of a song he heard (thus the whole bit about the rabbit that isn’t in the original version of Hound Dog as recorded by Big Mama Thornton).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJQ-fDb4M4s
The public is fickle like that.
Maybe there are people who agree with Madonna and think evil 1%ers (like her) have made enough money....
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