Hey everyone,

I thought a lot of you would enjoy reading this article about how the music
industry is killing itself by selling music by the single, and how DualDisc
offers hope to revive sales.

Here's a paragraph from the article...

"Today, the record business has been rocked by its own incompetence, its own
lack of R&D, its own lack of vision * vision that Apple and Pixar founder
Steven Jobs rightfully viewed as opportunity. The biggest thing to happen in
music in the last 10 years isn¹t music at all * it¹s hardware in the form of
the Apple iPod. But the iPod is possibly the worst thing that has ever
happened to the music industry in its modern era, because it is the iPod
that has returned the business back to a model of selling singles instead of
selling albums."

You can read the full article below.
http://www.avrev.com/news/0605/2.singles.html

Thanks,

Diane
AVRev.com

Diane Sherwin writes:

"Today, the record business has been rocked by its own incompetence, it=
s own
lack of R&D, its own lack of vision =AD vision that Apple and Pixar fou=
nder
Steven Jobs rightfully viewed as opportunity. The biggest thing to happ=
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music in the last 10 years isn=B9t music at all =AD it=B9s hardware in =
the form of
the Apple iPod. But the iPod is possibly the worst thing that has ever
happened to the music industry in its modern era, because it is the iPo=
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that has returned the business back to a model of selling singles inste=
ad of
selling albums."=20

I haven't read the whole article, but there's a couple of flaws with
the argument presented above:

1. An album that is more than filler material for one or two hit
singles has been a rarity in the past two decades.

2. The music industry sold singles at a fairly healthy clip even in
the late 60s / early 70s (the golden age of albums).

IMHO, the real decline in album quality came with the dominance of CD
which made it just too easy to skip tracks.

rsi
--=20
a.k.a. Rajappa Iyer.
Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.=20