Bad news from America

[DaBear]

The bad news from America just keeps getting worse: overall album sales last week, at 4,849,000 were the second lowest in the last 20 years, beating by just 0.35% the record low plumbed last September.

Cake?s Showroom Of Compassion debuted at number one on sales of just 44,333. That?s easily the lowest sale for a number one album since SoundScan started counting in 1991, falling 14.79% short of the previous lowest tally of 52,028, set by Taylor Swift?s Speak Now only last week.

To put the current meltdown into even sharper perspective, it is 2,000 copies fewer than Cake?s Pressure Chief sold to debut in 2004...at number 17. On the upside, it is not just the Sacramento veterans? first number one album ? it?s their first Top 10 album in a career that dates back to 1994.

While there are crumbs of comfort for Cake, it?s a spectacularly bad week for British acts. With Susan Boyle?s The Gift slumping 78-160, and Taio Cruz?s Rokstarr dipping 75-125, the only UK survivors in the Top 100 are Mumford & Son, whose Sigh No More eases 8-9 on sales of 26,000, while Florence + The Machine?s Lungs falls 26-30 on sales of 12,000.

Although a dozen albums by UK acts are in the bottom half of the Top 200, led by The Beatles? Abbey Road (130-115), we haven?t had fewer acts in the top half of the chart since the dawning of the new millennium more than 11 years ago.

What good news there is this week comes from the singles sector, with Britney Spears? Hold It Against Me debuting at number one atop the Hot 100, on first week sales of 411,000 ? practically 10 times Cake?s album sales, and the sixth highest one week tally for digital downloads in the format?s history.

Spears? fourth number one single, ninth Top 10 hit and 23rd Hot 100 entry, Hold It Against Me is the 18th song (out of 998 number ones) to debut atop the Hot 100 since its 1958 inception, and the second by Spears, emulating her 2008 single, 3.

Spears? number one debut is another triumph for Swedish songwriter Max Martin, who is right back on his game, having also co-written and produced this week?s second highest debut, Avril Lavigne?s What The Hell (number 13) and fastest mover in the Top 40, Pink?s F***kin? Perfect (57-30).

That?s not all: he also co-wrote and produced Pink?s Raise Your Glass (5-8), Taio Cruz?s Dynamite (11-18), Usher feat. Pitbull?s DJ Got Us Fallin? In Love (18-25) and Katy Perry?s Teenage Dream (26-32), giving him a total of seven concurrent Top 40 hits.

[STUDIOTON]

Nista nije cudno .. ovaj pad je ocekivan a pitanje je bilo vremena.. internet preuzima primat .. pitanje je sta ce biti i kako ce se sve organizovati u buducnosti .. mozda se albumi budu izdavali virtualno

[DzoniPFC]

Sigurno. To se vec uveliko radi. Treba se prilagoditi trzistu i vremenu.
piraterije je uvek bilo.
Samo sto su danas ljudi suvise lenji da izadju i kupe album, sad se sve vrti oko Facebooka, Youtube-a, itunesa, twittera, foruma...

[STUDIOTON]

to sa itunes-om je vrhunski potez kompanije.. kupovina muzike preko itunes-a za iphone,ipod ili ipad..

To ce daleko da dogura.. mislim da se nece zaustaviti samo na music shopu preko itunes-a.. ici ce to jos dalje .. vrlo vrlo perfidan potez apple-a

[DzoniPFC]

Bas tako.
iTunes je vrlo gotivan sajt.

[Surfer]

Vjerovatno dosta vas ne prati ali događaju se veliki pomaci u borbi protiv lopovluka i krađe intelektualnog vlasni?tva kao ?to je glazba ili film.

Američka vlada se priprema donijeti zakon o internet ID-u kojim će se kontrolirati pristup internetu svakoga tko će taj ID imati. Kao, na dobrovoljnoj bazi, da ne bi imali problem sa kr?enjem sloboda, ali je sigurno da će na neki način onda prisiliti velike igrače interneta da tra?e interent ID za pristup bilo kakvom sadr?aju.

U Francuskoj se počelo masovno ulaziti u kuće i stanove to se odnose kompjutori, laptopi i Iphonovi sa neautoriziranim softwerom ili ilegalnim downloadom a ljude se procesuira i sudski goni.

Italija je donijela propis kojim je proglasila Youtube TV kućom i na taj način ih sad prisiljava da po?tuju pravila koja vrijede za sve televizije kao npr. odgovornost za sadr?aj koji emitiraju, hehe. Pa su im nedavno zveknuli sudsku tu?bu na 500 miljuna Eura od?tete zbog emitiranja neautoriziranog materijala sa Berlusconijeve stanice.
Tako i treba.

Europska unija razmi?lja o novom zakonu u kojem će zatra?iti internet providere da odgovaraju za sadr?aj koji pu?taju kablom.

I eto, da se to rije?iti samo treba početi.
Prvo neka internet provider dobije naredbu da blokira sve stranice sumnjivog sadr?aja na kojima se nalazi neautorizirani materijal.

A onda recimo meni bi prvi target bio Google da sam na vlasti.
Jer lopovi ,koji se inače zovu pirati jer to bolje zvuči, lijepo u Google ukucaju Lady Gaga torrent i Google im lijepo na dlanu isporuči 2 456 776 rezultata pa nek si lijepo biraju koji torrent im se najvi?e sviđa.
Nek Google odmah blokira riječ torrent u tra?ilici pa da vidim tko će naći bilo ?ta i skinuti za d?abe.

Dakle, ima rije?enja i vrijeme je da se počnu o?tro primjenjivati jer ćemo svi pocrkati od gladi dok si klinci skidaju muziku i filmove i hvale se kako imaju 300GB muzike na kompjuteru.

Jo? samo da je Kinu pridobiti u to sve, pa da oni na Tiannanmenu likvidiraju jedno 50 klinaca koji su skidali ili aplodali neautorizirani materijal i da vidi? procvjeta glazbene i filmske industrije.