The thing that will save the Physicals the most is the price... FULL STOP

It won't though. NOTHING will save physicals. Price has already shown to have little effect after the introduction of 99p singles, they've done nothing.

agree with Mark...let it go now, it can't and won't be saved, even if singles went down to 50p, times have moved on and its more easy and convenient to download a song for 79p than to spend £3 on bus fair to get to the shop to buy a £2 single

the main reason behind the death of the physical single is illegal filesharing and DOWNLOADING...

P2P networks and blogspots which lets people download high quality singles for free have killed the industry...

i'm aure that most music labels would shut down in 5 or 10 years time.

 

I agree.

 

I asked every person in my year group (40 people) whether they had paid for any music of any kind in the last year, and no-one has. No-one cares.

 

The escape route is to go on tours for longer, and piracy is a lot more difficult for that.

Edited June 6, 200817 yr by Harve

The thing that gets me is some singles CAN still sell loads. Take an X Factor single, easily 100,000 Physical copies sold. So what is different about them? Well I know there's the over exposure of the series but the key is that the industry decides for these singles to go out of their way putting the single right under our nose at the front of music stores and crucially stocking at all the supermarkets. If it's stocked in more places and promoted people will still buy, and these are usually priced at £3.99 for a two or three track!

The X Factor singles are also bought in my opinion by people thinking "hmmm that's a single, there's a novelty u don't get those nowadays!". Spread the message people, you can still buy singles and I hope you always be able to.

And here is another point, for everyone to ponder, if cd singles did get the chop, come to the X Factor single during Xmas, if they decide to release the single on a CD format as a one off its bound to sell more than other tracks that are available at the time.

 

In the end the X Factor single always wins, unless the show is no more.

I think the X Factor winners single will always do well anyway cos its like buying a part of X Factor. Like when Kylie and Jason were making music while in Neighbours - their music was also a way to own a piece of Neighbours. I think its a subconsious thing to buy the winners single - i did ever since Hear'Say - i have brought the winners single and then when Leon won X Factor - i decided enough was enough, and i wasn't gonna waist my money on a song and an artist that i don't particually like. (though i have to say - the only other winners song that i don't like - but i did buy it was Steve Brookstein)

I'm one of the persons that doesn't have a CD-RW. Plus I don't know how to download anything (except for the free Violet Hill single). I looked into getting an iPod, but in the US we can't download most UK songs.

 

have u heard about 7Digital, i live in Beirut, Lebanon and i can download songs from the 7 Digital site or the UK i-Tunes.

 

or else, have u heard of Blogspots or P2P Networking like Kazaa, Bearshare or Limewire ???? Duhhh!!!!!

Edited June 8, 200817 yr by Big Mistake

Also, with a youtube video you have to be in one set place to listen to the track. When buying something you can listen to it anywhere, in the house, in the car, on the bus, at work, whilst walking or shopping....

 

give me the proportion of people who listen to music while shopping or while in a bus????? :naughty:

LOADS of people listen to music on the bus! I'd say atleast 50% of young people listen to music on the bus, especially on the way to work. I shall tell you tomorrow when I've gone to work on the bus with my iPod on...

Not that I'm cynical or anything, but those of us here who can remember the early 80's were told exactly the same thing about home-taping... :)

 

 

er :arrr: ... but u couldn't share ur home tapes with a million other people, or could you???? :D

LOADS of people listen to music on the bus! I'd say atleast 50% of young people listen to music on the bus, especially on the way to work. I shall tell you tomorrow when I've gone to work on the bus with my iPod on...

Yeah thats right. Same with cars, unless they have the radio on of course.

another theory is that legal download sites such as i-Tunes, HMV and 7Digital should not let people cherry pick album tracks...

that ruins sales of albums and singles as well. Look at what's happening to 2nd or 3rd singles from albums!!!!

The album should only allowed to be downloaded as a whole. Otherwise 2nd or 3rd singles will be pointless

I'm sure in the next 3 or 4 years the internet music industry will organize everything in order to help the sales because downloading will indeed be the only alternative to buy music in the near future. It won't be long b4 physical albums are dead too.

 

when internet music becomes organized and illegal filesharing will be restricted i'm sure sales will go even higher than they were in the 90's.

Edited June 8, 200817 yr by Big Mistake

As I said earlier, I don't believe cherry-picking really affects sales at all, purely because they're hardly ever in the chart. It's only a few tracks from major artists that get a few days in the iTunes chart at all.

I think the death of the physicals market will mean the death of people paying for music full stop. Why should someone pay 79p for something from iTunes which can only be transferred to five devices, when you can pay nothing and get the same song and do what you want with it?! (I know labels are looking into getting rid of DRM but still...)

 

At least when people used to copy CDs for their mates, there was a visible difference between a crappy CDR and the quality product you bought in the shops.

 

Maybe it sounds sad, but I get excited about Mondays to see all the new releases in the shops, buying it, looking through the booklet etc. How can you get excited about an MP3 file?

 

Why the labels ever thought that the solution to declining physical sales was to make them increasingly cheap and remove all the content? What's the point in a 99p 1 track CD?! I'm not naive enough to think there's still a massive market for them, but if you hide singles in the darkest corner of a shop on a tiny stand and then when you find the one you want there's no unreleased tracks, remixes or anything on it, why would you bother - even if it is 99p?!

 

Thus concludes my rant :lol:

That's another point. I love looking at the new release stand and often end up buying many more than I went in for. Weirdly I bought Sara Bareilles from the New Release stand last week as an impulse buy and then saw it had been out a while, but I like it anyway.

Someone from the music industry should persuade all large supermarkets to stock at least a top 10 plus big new releases then they'd see sales of cds climb and climb from impulse buying. At the moment people have to want to go out of their way to buy a single, in shop or online, we need impulse buyers back on side!