Why acdc isnt on itunes

It's their music--they can do what they want with it. Johnson implied that iTunes is all about money and thus this commercialization is hurting music.

What, is Wal-Mart donating Black Ice profits to charity? If iTunes is such a threat to the music industry, you couldn't tell by listening to Doug Morris, CEO of Universal Music Group, the largest of the four top recording companies. Billboard asked him recently who he thought was the smartest person in music. I talk to him about once a month. I like him very much. I have dinner with him occasionally, and he's the kind of guy we'll be talking about years from now.

He's a brilliant guy. As for albums, there's nothing sacred about this format--at least not to consumers. Angus should look around. Hardly anyone in the music business advocates for albums anymore. That's because digital technology has rendered the album obsolete. Consumers are free to buy tracks they like and aren't forced to shell out money for those they don't.

Years ago, after the rise of CDs, if a fan liked a song, he or she had little choice but to buy the entire album. I stopped buying music in the early s after reading a Rolling Stone interview where Kurt Cobain suggested that this wasn't an accident. Nirvana's legendary frontman implied that music labels would take a band's best tracks and scatter them over multiple albums to squeeze more money out of consumers. In the two years I've covered digital music, I've had the opportunity to ask a number of music executives about this.

This was obviously a poor way to treat customers, and it's not a stretch to suggest this is why many people felt justified in downloading songs off Napster in the late s, and why so many continue to pirate music to this day. Why not offer the music on iTunes and be confident that the individual songs will sell themselves?

Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. I only like one of their songs. I got two tickets to their Vancouver concert which sold out in 4 minutes breaking a record in the city I would have gladly paid or each for tickets if it was sold out. Lucky for me I only had to pay each. Tickets are now sellng for over each. Does this sound like people think thier crap?

NO you are alone in that respect. You are a very insulting and rude person David. You have offended me, I have loved them for many years. If you really want your fans to listen to your music in the right way, preach it to them on your blog or whatever and true fans will listen and obey.

Many people, as they become deeper fans of music, generally tend to end up listening to music as albums anyway, as the artist generally intends. Apple could still do more to improve the way Albums are organised on iTunes. That iPhone interface really makes listening to music by the album more compelling.

You must have been under a rock for the last 30 years. Anyways, really ACDC is only hurting their fans. It was a poorly written article, that is for sure. Having sat the other side of the table from some music business lawyers on one occasion the pure greed of the music industry is nothing I could ever doubt. The music industry eventually threw their lot in with iTunes to stop the rot and negate the risk of a whole generation never paying for any music.

This article ridiculously chooses to forget how things were going prior to iTunes — all illegal downloads — and equally fails to point out the blindingly obvious — that as soon as the ACDC CD does come out it will be immediately ripped and made available for free online. Some artists may choose to pretend they make albums that consist of 10 equally excellent tracks — but we all know the truth — very few albums are really great — most are patchy — and a great number only have one or two good songs on — you want to sell a whole album on iTunes — then make one worth buying my friend.

I thought Money Talked! Good for them. We need people to listen to the album. What a load of bollocks. Shame on you Angus!! They are missing out on a lot of new fans and not to mention a lot of money but refusing to do this.

Truly, they DO rock! If they really gave a crap about everyone listening to an entire album in order to maintain some sort of musical integrity, then why allow people to hear it on the radio, or why the calculations regarding making more money with a whole album in the first place?

This is about money and pretending otherwise is pretentious and insulting to listeners. So there, they just lost money. Like instead of us reading about this in a newspaper or magazine, were watching this guy type on a computer. Mobile menu toggle. Number of comments on this post Leave a comment. September 26, at am. Ska says:. Brad says:. September 26, at pm. DAK says:. Avalon says:. Adam says:. BrotherShane says:.

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