Posted on 06/13/2015 12:00:52 PM PDT by Perdogg
Those who once built their music-buying week around new albums coming out on Tuesdays will have to change their schedules.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry -- a trade group representing more than 1,300 international record labels -- has announced that beginning July 10, its members and a consortium of other retailers, artist reps and other groups in over 45 countries will shift to a single global Friday release date for new albums.
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I have always wondered about that. What about books?
Been years since I bought any new music - anything coming out of nashville these days is pop-garbage.
The last music I bought was on cassette tape back in the ‘90s.
They still release albums?
Yep, 70’s rock didn’t die.
It went to Nashville.
Well, the worst parts of it anyway.
Turned on the country music version of mtv a few years ago. Had some guy with his shirt half off slathered in enough oil to grease 2 pigs doing a bump and grind with himself.
Had to listen to 3 hours of Black Sabbath/Ozzy to get myself back to normal.
Books come out whenever they come out, with titles suspected to become big bestsellers scheduled for the hottest sales season. But used to be that the inventory would be culled by, I believe, March 1, with the bookstores pulling duds and other unsold inventory for full credit; the returns get remaindered, which means sold at a breakeven or loss to remainder distributors, and those copies don't generate a copy-sold royalty for the authors, either.
“Albums”?? What is this thing of which he speaks?
I always think would Waylon or Hank Sr be doing that kind of stuff on stage? Cryin' about girls dumping 'em, asking the bartender for milk, or singing about keg parties and mud trucks like every other new nashville pretty boy?
Just can't get into the new stuff. There's a guy on youtube that took a bunch of "new country" and wrapped into one song b/c they all sound the same...hilarious. I keep my "old" rock and "old" country...enough for me!
Did you know that except for a brief period of hard rock and c&w in the 70s, most music is garbage? ; )
Vinyl is back in. Better sound quality. They are usually on thicker vinyl so that they don’t warp like the vinyl records did just before CD’s started becoming popular.
In this day and age, there is no good reason to restrict the release of music to a certain day of the week. The original reason for a single day of the week release was to allow retail outlets to get product into the stores so that there could be a level playing field when sales started getting tabulated (for chart placement in Billboard magazine).
So back in the 1970s, when a new REO Speedwagon or Journey recording was coming out, it might take a few extra days for the stores in Kansas and Nebraska to get the album shipped to them, so the recording industry decided that new records would only be officially released on a Tuesday (originally Monday) so that stores would have a full week to get the product.
I remember in Boston, stores would start getting copies of new albums shipped to them on a Friday and they'd sell a few of them "out the back door" at a premium price until the official release on Tuesday. They'd also find their way to local radio stations who would start playing the records the weekend before, despite the nasty letters they'd get from the record companies for doing so.
Such an archaic and out-dated business model that the recording industry still clings to, to their detriment.
What about Hillary’s book? How well did it sell???
I buy tons of new music.
It’s just mostly indie artists producing their own material or cheap used CDs.
Most of my purchases work out to between eight and seventy-nine cents per song.
A lot of the artists selling through Bandcamp.com have the lyrics embedded in the files so they scroll across the screen when you play them on good music software.
Try Erika Chambers.
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Friday is a week away.
IOW,I couldn't care less when new music is released.
Rules are made to be broken.
How many people are going to care?
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