Mr. FAB sold 1000 CD's digitally his first week, Kafani is in the top 10 on itunes, and the Frontline told me that they sold about 300 CD's on itunes. With CD sales declining so much do you think people will still buy CD's in the future or do u think they will just download them via itunes? I know a lot of the siccness members are artists as well, so Im reaching out to you artists and asking you do you think that putting out a album on itunes is better than putting your CD's in the walmart's, bestbuys, fye's, and circuit city's? I mean lets face it if you don't ship out a million CD's your CD will most likely be put on a rack in the back of a bestbuy with the other million CD's. You won't get in a listening station in the store, so consumers will not be able to preview your material ahead of time, and they probably won't put you in the new release section of the store when your album comes out unless you pay a store anywhere from 20,000 to 60,000 for price and positioning. At least on itunes you can sell your CD for 9.99 and still get $8 a CD independent.
IS THE FUTURE OF CD SALES GOING MORE DIGITAL THAN PHYSICAL??????
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bro, not to salt you, but you do realize that itunes doesn't sell CDS, they sell downloads...and the same thing goes for itunes as do stores, if your not already famous you arent going to get any big retail coverage, so people wont just randomly buy your music from the front page of itunes(just liek the new release rack), they gotta sift thru a million others or have to already be a fan if they are gonna cop your shit.....the problem is not really where or in what form that music is sold, the problem and reason for drop in sales is MARKETING (either not enough, or not effective enough)
yeah mack that's a good point, but one of the points that I was trying to make is that when you do a deal with itunes you don't have to press and distribute any CD's all you have to do is give them the artwork and master copy of your song. That eliminates a big cost right there. Itunes also does 80/20 deals meaning you get 80 and they get 20.
I hope cds will last.
I buy the album not only to have music, but to physically put it on the shelf after listening to it. Or to open the damn booklet and whipe the irritating dust off the surface of the disc - I love it though.
I can't stand people saying - "I've got 3000 Bay cds" (all of them in mp3 format and that's it).
I buy the album not only to have music, but to physically put it on the shelf after listening to it. Or to open the damn booklet and whipe the irritating dust off the surface of the disc - I love it though.
I can't stand people saying - "I've got 3000 Bay cds" (all of them in mp3 format and that's it).
Sales are definately going digital. IMO the reason why people dont buy CD's is simply cuz they dont offer anything that downloading doesnt provide. If more artist sold there CD's with a DVD (and hope it doesnt make it to the tube) or something else one doesnt get by just downlading it, im sure it would increase sales. Lowering the price on CD's would also increase the demand, perhaps selling CD's for $9-12 instead of $14-17 (just driving to the store cost like $10 alone with the price of gas lol so keep that in mind). A huge factor also is marketing. Marketing does wonders, Kanye and 50 just had huge campaigns and the result was selling Platinum and Gold in the 1st week. However, sales in general are down because of the music itself, the quality of it has been garbage for the most part. Not to mention NOBODY is making classics anymore.
Im definitely feeling the feedback that everyone is giving me. Im working on a special program with itunes that will highlight the independents equally as the majors. I will further update every one of you artists on siccness and let you know how I can help out with the digital itunes promotions. Thank you for taking out the time to respond to my thread!
Yes, I stressed the importance of getting your cake with the digital stuff in previous Editor's letters of Stash Magazine. The technology these days makes everything cheaper and easier and the CD will be obsolete in the near future. The iPod's are getting more advanced with video and pictures and may be the next liner notes that CD packages had.
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