[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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