[Rumori] singles vs AOR
king wilson
kingwilson at comcast.net
Fri Jan 9 10:20:39 PST 2004
On Jan 8, 2004, at 11:07 AM, matt davignon wrote:
>> From: Taylor McLaren <morakanabad at yahoo.ca>
>> Aside from the nominal difference in the amount of money spent on
>> packaging, you have you wonder why your average pop musician doesn't
>> just stick to singles and keep up their market presence by putting
>> out a good song or two every couple of months.
>
> Exactly - I often think the top-40 musicians would be better off
> putting out singles (perhaps with remixes), then instead of albums,
> focus on compilations of the singles. It already sort of happens with
> comps like the "Now That's What I Call Music" series. (Funny thing
> about those - on the tv ads they always seem to feature at least one
> awful group/song that nobody's ever heard of, like their presence on
> the compilation would actually make someone believe it was a "hit". )
The problem with this is that *most* albums only have one or two
songs that could be sold as singles and be hits. Especially in the Top
40 genre.
Let's see, I could sell you the two songs you like for two bucks
each, or I can sell you a whole album for $17.99......
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