Comments on: Sales Down, Hopes Up—3/11/09 http://www.musicrow.com/2009/03/sales-down-hopes-up%e2%80%9431109/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sales-down-hopes-up%25e2%2580%259431109 Nashville's Music Industry Publication Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:09:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mr. Matt http://www.musicrow.com/2009/03/sales-down-hopes-up%e2%80%9431109/comment-page-1/#comment-2797 Mr. Matt Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:16:27 +0000 http://www.musicrow.com/?p=3880#comment-2797 Forch: Target doesn't sell edited CDs. Forch:

Target doesn’t sell edited CDs.

]]> By: B. Bremer http://www.musicrow.com/2009/03/sales-down-hopes-up%e2%80%9431109/comment-page-1/#comment-2581 B. Bremer Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:06:59 +0000 http://www.musicrow.com/?p=3880#comment-2581 Rescal Flatts, Keith Urban may do well. The others will go largly unnoticed. Martina? Hard to say. The digital revolution is just beginning in country music. Adapt or be washed away. The CD is dead. Radio doesn't matter. Next? Rescal Flatts, Keith Urban may do well. The others will go largly unnoticed. Martina? Hard to say. The digital revolution is just beginning in country music. Adapt or be washed away. The CD is dead. Radio doesn’t matter. Next?

]]> By: Forch Fabalon http://www.musicrow.com/2009/03/sales-down-hopes-up%e2%80%9431109/comment-page-1/#comment-2539 Forch Fabalon Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:55:25 +0000 http://www.musicrow.com/?p=3880#comment-2539 I hope we (the industry) can find a way to capitalize off of the new medium, this is getting real bad. One thing is, in the heartland of America, you can’t find a record store to buy music in. I don’t want the edited music from Wal-mart and Target. Then the other chain stores (Best Buy, Circuit City, Etc.) are confusing the consumer when you walk in. All the titles are kinda jumbled in to one. And the displays make it hard to find things. When you go online, that’s even worst with all the choices. It’s like, what do I choose? There is defiantly good music out there but it hard to find. Record companies are only going with what they think is a sure thing, but even then 85% of that sucks. So this makes them shy away from putting out any new music. If you have a track recorded then they give you some advertising, but if they don’t get the numbers they expect, then they pull the money. A perfect example of this is the MC=2 record my Mariah Carey. People lost their jobs because she didn’t eclipse the numbers of the previous album. The problem with the album was they tried to make the same album, no growth. I still did 1.4 (I think). I think we (Record Companies) got spoiled when times where good. When everything was selling, and people were buying new CD to replace the old tapes because they sounded better. Or when you could put together a good campaign, and every stations listeners bought in. A lot of people blame hip hop. Cause there numbers were so big. And still believe there was a campaign to cool it off. With all of the censorship and the pushed back albums, budget cuts to those departments, the complete elimination of the black departments, all that was a message to I think to let them know they were getting to big for there britches. Some blame it on the music trends changing, but when has jazz, bluegrass, blues, soundtracks for movies consistently sold albums like the hip hop and rock albums of years pass? But those budgets are still approved, studio still booked, albums still are put out, concerts still booked, they still get the televised performance on the Grammy show. No matter what you are going to see that preformace. And they don’t expect the big numbers. We need to figure out something, fast. Forch Fabalon: Previous foot soldier for WEA in the south I hope we (the industry) can find a way to capitalize off of the new medium, this is getting real bad. One thing is, in the heartland of America, you can’t find a record store to buy music in. I don’t want the edited music from Wal-mart and Target. Then the other chain stores (Best Buy, Circuit City, Etc.) are confusing the consumer when you walk in. All the titles are kinda jumbled in to one. And the displays make it hard to find things.

When you go online, that’s even worst with all the choices. It’s like, what do I choose? There is defiantly good music out there but it hard to find. Record companies are only going with what they think is a sure thing, but even then 85% of that sucks. So this makes them shy away from putting out any new music. If you have a track recorded then they give you some advertising, but if they don’t get the numbers they expect, then they pull the money. A perfect example of this is the MC=2 record my Mariah Carey. People lost their jobs because she didn’t eclipse the numbers of the previous album.

The problem with the album was they tried to make the same album, no growth. I still did 1.4 (I think).

I think we (Record Companies) got spoiled when times where good. When everything was selling, and people were buying new CD to replace the old tapes because they sounded better. Or when you could put together a good campaign, and every stations listeners bought in.

A lot of people blame hip hop. Cause there numbers were so big. And still believe there was a campaign to cool it off. With all of the censorship and the pushed back albums, budget cuts to those departments, the complete elimination of the black departments, all that was a message to I think to let them know they were getting to big for there britches.

Some blame it on the music trends changing, but when has jazz, bluegrass, blues, soundtracks for movies consistently sold albums like the hip hop and rock albums of years pass? But those budgets are still approved, studio still booked, albums still are put out, concerts still booked, they still get the televised performance on the Grammy show. No matter what you are going to see that preformace. And they don’t expect the big numbers.

We need to figure out something, fast.

Forch Fabalon: Previous foot soldier for WEA in the south

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