Comments on: U.S. CD Sales Down 20 Percent

By: kfccanada

kfccanada — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:02:15 +0000

Music is about feeling, emotion, living,loving, finding love and losing love

I was happy to read what Cynthia said...and the other writers, too. Clay Aiken has just released, On My Way Here, a Cd filled with original songs that are exactly what Cynthia and others claim is important.But, the music reviewers and journalists aren't on the same page as we are. It appears that negativity sells.....newscopy..but not necessarily CD's.

IMHO, the sale of albums are down because radio stations play the same handful of songs ad nauseum, simply because they are edgy, controversial or downright sexy; they are playing to a select group of listeners and...definitely not the 40+ age group nor the female demographic.

Journalists love to mock Clay because of his huge female fanbase simply because they refer to themselves as Claymates. Hmmmm doesn't seem to matter how many men ogle Hugh Hefner's Playboy bunnies.... Perhaps if the music industry would realize that women could , conceivably, be interested in CD's enough to buy them, and cooperate in playing songs that appeal to them, they may find sales figures can increase significantly. After all, just who do they think is paying for the CD's/d/l's the younger age groups are buying?

The music industry and related media are rife with jaded, negative, gossip-loving, biased men at every level and will never see the need to change their attitudes until music sales reach rock-bottom. In the meantime, they are dragging deserving artists down with them.

Perhaps the industry should go back to releasing singles, as they used to. Or, perhaps the stations should go back to playing whatever song on a CD the public requests...rather than just one song out of the 12-14 on a CD. Yeah, I know, costs would be greater.....and money really is the whole issue...not trying to supply what people actually want.

By: Bret Carr

Bret Carr — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:14:45 +0000

Todays artist are not creative or innovative AT ALL..todays artist are a bunch of copy cats and repeaters..you listen to a rap record today and they all sound the same and the lyrics talk about nothing but garbage..if I hear another record talking about rims and a candy painted ride I'm gonna throw a brick at the radio and smash it to bits..Way too many knuckleheads being promoted and not enough intelligent artist with Style and Class ala the Old School.

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:47:33 +0000

Music is about feeling, emotion, living,loving, finding love and losing love, that's R&B not only Rocker's and Pop artist are true singers. What you need to do is look deeper, make a special request to find R&B done right where every song is one that you have to have.
not just 1 or 2. make a special request to listen to tracks were every song has a message, meaning and not degrading our females, but telling everyone to love and respect our ladies for they are god's gift to the world and it's alright to relax, kick back and ” pour the wine ” to say ” I Know a secret ” and it's that the girls in love and it's me she's thinking of, and all girls love to ” Tease ” hell maybe they just have ” Heavenly Eyes ” but what ever it is when comes to real R&B, Soul, or Contemporary Music, You have to make a ” Special Request ” to Appreciate a good thing.

By A true fan of “R&B” and “Special Request”.

By: treysean

treysean — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:56:08 +0000

the reason that albums are down is simple very very simple. ill tell you it is brecause you can download on the internet for free.But my honest reason is that music isnt creative and expressive like it used to be.back in the day people use tomake music of course for money and to express themselves but everyone was talented and made good music for there genre. know everyone makes music for that check and everything that comes with it. they go in that booth and rap sing and dance around about nothing. the only thing poppin in music is producers and musicians. i love rap and rand b but they are getting out of hand. then i listen to these rock and pop singers and they have amazing voices.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:26:45 +0000

Not surprising. But I dont think that digital singles are the only reason. It could also be that radio and television aren't really supporting bands like they used to. MTV needed to spawn three extra TV channels in order to be able to play some music videos (wouldnt want to deprive the masses from the Road Rules Challenges). Clear Channel only played 10 bands, all of which are pretty interchangeable. Labels, blame your support system.

By: Ian Bell

Ian Bell — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:13:26 +0000

This is not suprising, I am anxious for the day when people will wake up and realize that DRM has screwed them. Nothing like having hundreds of songs without a player to support it right?