Why Do You Think The Music Industry Is Loosing On CD Sales?

Question

I think one its the industries fault and two the consumer. First the music industry needs to be more responsible on the artists they choose to put in the public's eye. By putting negative music out people have less respect for the industry and more for the artist. Basically breeding cultlike people. Of course people will react negatively, Duh! Also people use music to soothe and uplift their spirits, if the music isnt truely uplifting and doesnt really inprove the consumers life, the industry will loose out, but imagine if the artists made music that caused people to get better psychologically and physically, and not stay depressed? Then if they charged 100 bucks for a cd, people would buy. This is not brain surgery, this is common sense. What do you think?

I don't see how anyone could disagree with this explaination, you gotta' be dumb or something, honestly! One guy said he didnt totally agree, and ended up saying the same thing? What, please do not comment on things if you have some sort of psychological weakness, like LISTENING or PRIDE of NO IT ALL!

Basically to make a long story less complicated, the industry needs a better product, that demands respect, because logic is not stupid, and just like God told Cain, if you do good, do you not get good back?

Answer 1

If you research you find out the music industry did not like radio when it first came out in the 20's The internet is the new radio >So the music industry will just have to learn to use it ..

Answer 2

I read what you said and I do not completly agree with you well you are you on the right track. The reason to why people do not buy music anymore is because they feel as if they are not getting there money's worth. Meaning the quality of music has dropped dramatically. Now a days artist will have about 2 good songs on a CD and rest are basically crappy or not worth listing to not all artist but 98% of the artist out there. Ontop of that it use to be where a CD would include about 18-22 tracks now a days a CD usually contains from 10-15 tracks This is part of the reason, the other half is internet downloads. There are websites out there from which you can get free music and when people download free music instead of buying it, it causes the artist to loose money so the company's loose money. But the reason to why people download music is because they do not want to pay 15$ for 2 good songs and 10 songs in total. You do not get your money's worth so it all comes back to quality and quantity.

Answer 3

I think the music industry has a multitude of issues that are causing the downturn in sales.
1) Prices. The recording industry has placed prices higher than people can regularly purchase. Chains like Wal-Mart and Best Buy feed the gouging by trying to undercut each other on their prices and promotions. Leaving alternative outlets like Apple's iTunes Store constantly fighting to keep their own prices fair.
2) Quality. There is a lot of exciting music being made right now. And the variety is greater than ever. What is suffering is the quality of an entire cd from start to finish. I rarely will spend money on a $20 disc for an average of five or six decent songs, and seven marginal or poor songs.
3) Insistence on one format to be sold. The recording industry has been trying to kill a format it should embrace. Digital formats are gaining ground all the time. Illegal downloads need to be punished, but don't let that ruin a good technology.
for the quality issue listed above, I buy most of my music one song at a time now via iTunes. I only get what I know I'll actually listen to. CDs have their place. There is still a fondess of having a tangible product. The record industry needs to, in my opinion, allow stores to sell digital formats that allow a customer to buy music and load it on their digital players, in store. On-demand is here to stay. The companies that realize this will do well, others will fade away.
4) Propoganda. The record industry tries to make it seem like a drop in record sales will kill music as we know it. Good!
I am tired of some executive telling me what to listen to. I know what I like. And the argument that artists are going to suffer, is crap. They force the artists into slave contracts and drop them if the sales are not what were expected. I say let the artist determine how THEIR material will be distributed and sold, not some midlle aged,corporate executive.
Music can be "fixed" and it will probably take many record labels to go bankrupt to get there. The answer is to truly respond to consumer preferences and allow real consumer choice.

Answer 4

Why does hip hop singers use so many profanity and expletives? Why does hip hop singer always sings about killing some one, hitting some one, raping some one, b itch about their environment or childhood, excessice use of drugs, suggest some one to be a prostitute, degrades women, or doing something that is dangerous, like jump out of the car while it is moving slowly and start riding on the hood of the car or jump out of the car and start dancing like an idiot while the car moves slowly. Is there no other topic to sang about?
I know that there is freedom of speech, but I would go to some one and sue them for teaching stupid things to kids, specially the use of drugs and alcohol.

What do you think?

Answer 5

I don't think that has to do with anything. People don't buy CD's anymore cause ipods, computers and crap like that. and charging 100 smacks for a CD is insane

Answer 6

True music is an Art not an Industry, so who frickin cares?

Answer 7

because everyone is no longer paying for songs or cds, they are all coming online and joining p2p sites and downloading music for free

Answer 8

There are pirated CDs sold and shareware to download through internet ....

Answer 9

What is the question? When I first read this I thought you were referring to MP3 files.

Answer 10

i think of they meant greater like, in case you desire to grow to be popular you need to artwork stressful, in all likelihood plenty greater sturdy than in amost different employer fields. they do no longer actually sell their souls...