Bobby,
You are missing my point.
Major labels are not making the money they used to
quite simply because they do not publish music that
people are interested in listening to. Rather than investing
in writing talent they blame piracy and keep re-hashing
old standards that have been recorded a 1000 times.
There are no Holland¨CDozier¨CHolland, no Lennon/McCartney or Goffin-King writing teams any more.
Creative artistes need room to breath and develop but this does
not fit into current business plans for a quick return.
When I was in the industry in the 1980s a top ten UK entry
could be achieved with just 3000 sales - back in the 1960s
it took 20 times that. File sharing wasn`t around in the 1980s
so that can`t be blamed for sales loss.
Will
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I am not advocating piracy and I realise it has some effect
but do not think it affects mainstream sales as much as is
claimed.
Yes, you are, and every argument you present supports this.
Odd to me is how many recording studios take your stand as well. When
artists finally figure out that they can no longer afford to invest in a
recording project destined to make no money, who exactly is it that they
think will support them?
Bobby
