Moby is blaming P2P fans for lower-than-hoped sales of his latest album,
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“I described the ‘Pearl Jam Effect’ as being a phenomenon wherein bands who have very technically savvy fans will see their records do poorly in the charts, whereas bands/artists who have less technically savvy fans will do quite well on the charts,” explained Moby in a recent journal entry on his website. “This is owing to the fact that bands/artists with technically savvy fans will have a lot of fans who will end up downloading music or burning CDs where as less tech-savvy fans will end up buying their CDs … Pink outsells Weezer in the States not so much because she’s more popular, but because her fans are more likely to buy, as opposed to burn, her CDs.”
Could it simply be that his latest album is not as good as his last? Not to mention that Moby’s music is no longer what it used to be and original Moby fans, like myself, don’t care for his new vocally over-powered and radio-friendly songs. And what is Moby trying to say about Pink fans?
“I’m not saying this is a good or a bad thing … I’m not writing this to voice my opinions. My concern is the way that the industry looks at the success of a musician or of a record that sells or doesn’t sell. Popular artists traditionally sold a lot of records. In the future that might not be the case. In fact, even now that might not be the case.”
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