Comments on: EMI CD Sales Decline by Almost 20% in Last 4 Months

By: When Majors understand the value of free music « steampixels

When Majors understand the value of free music « steampixels — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:31:46 +0000

[...] had cut ties with EMI which didn’t really appreciate this initiative, having seen their CD sale decline by almost 20% few months before. To counter them, they went to the extent of releasing the integrality of the band’s previous [...]

By: Zoness

Zoness — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Does iTunes Plus do some weird data-mining thing? It was being talked about on here for awhile.

By: Shenmuex

Shenmuex — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I said this before and i’ll say it again most of the music EMI brings out is pure and utter SHIT so i’ve got some advice for the big suits sitting their fancy offices. Bring REAL ARTISTS back artists that inspire and make good music. The focus on the same types of music are too big there’s no diversity at all everything is POP R&B/DANCE/POP ROCK/HIP-HOP and it all sounds the same.

Mainstream Hip Hop for instance is too much bling bling and needs a big fat kick in the TEETH! It’s not Hip Hop anymore but repetitive bullshit without that oomph it used to have. People like Eric B and Rakeem KRS one A tribe called quest never got a worthy follow up they got replaced by supposed rappers talking about money+cars and hillbilly rappers without any skill at all talking about southern laffy taffy and other insignificant things.

The candy pop rock bullshit is quite annoying too i mean did the grunge era lead us to this?? Where’s artists that have the quality that for instance a Nirvana Pearl Jam Soundgarden had? Good music with songs that everybody knew and even the people that did not like rock music. Thankfully the Smashing pumpkins returned and Rage against the machine got back together too so promote that shit if you want good sales!

New R&B MAINSTREAM music has nothing to offer at all where’s the new Marvin Gaye? Alicia Keys is standing on her own in that field maybe J.Legend???? But if you look in a broader perspective you guys have very little to offer to the public so go search and make contact with new talent.

Dance is repetitive in my opinion but you had some great artists back in the day that made good tunes like Wink and the prodigy…

Give underground artists a chance to make it big instead of crying like little babies about declining sales.

By: freeloader105

freeloader105 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Zoness I agree that most of the popular music right now is shit but it still sells very well. Everyone seems to just eat it up.

By: Horowitz

Horowitz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Everyone old thinks their generations music was better than what is currently ‘popular’

By: Shenmuex

Shenmuex — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

What do you consider old? I’m young but i have a taste for quality music maybe you don’t Horowitz? I’m just not that impressed with the bullshit record companies present to us. I mean take Talib Kweli for instance the guy has great music and will probably never get to the level of a repetitive 50cent. Whilst Talib has a better flow than 50cent a better image then 50cent and better music then 50cent. But hey my definition of great music is probably different than that of the masses.