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When it comes to music sales, January has more than its share of suckage. I just got my credit card bills from Christmas and I’m feeling a little queasy. But music industry people, accustomed that queasy feeling over the last ten years, are having a good week. Canadian CD sales are up 6% over a year ago. Even more exciting is that digital album sales are 42% higher than this week last year.
Most of the credit has to go to Ke$sha, who has the most-downloaded single with “Tik Tok” (it set a download record in December) and the most downloaded (and highest-selling CD with 16,000 copies) in Animal, her debut record. SuBo finally gets bumped down to #2 after six weeks at the top.
It’s same story in the US where Ke$ha is making $ (or for her handlers, at least) with the top downloads and the #1 album, albeit with a modest 151,942 copies sold. SuBo is #2 (now with 3.2 million records sold) and Lady GaGa is #3 (2.5 million records).
Here’s the question for the week: with all the hype and good reviews surrounding this week’s release of Contra by Vampire Weekend, how many people—and how many blogger hipsters—will put their money with their mouths are and actually BUY a CD or a download?
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Not too damn many of them. I’d rather spend the money on shows, booze, food, and some basic luxury. This is why bands tour… A lot. It’s the only way they’re making money generally.
Ke$ha saving the music biz. Who’d have thought.
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both artists are very well manufactured products being aimed and pushed to a very specific demographic, thos ‘cyborg’ kids you talk about. They expect to just get the song when they hear it, and they can right then and there. It makes me wonder if there actually is a musical formula that can be worked out to trigger that impulsive gene in certain people. Maybe what trends us towards the different genres of music is just a mathematical combination of frequencies and tones … makes me feel like we are all in the movie ‘Strange Brew’ being controlled by music. That being said, I’d like to suggest to anyone to buy the product – that way your favorite artist can afford to release another one next year.
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