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OMG people, the dinosaurs sure are making a lot of noise before going down in bad economy. They are trying to defend EMI (aka.Citibank record aka.been bailed out by public money outfit)
My quickie:
1. why are they crying about a business based on dead media? vinyl album. as if it's the pinnacle of civilization. (It's dead bo' move on. get 24bit digital player already.)
2. Defending WMG? Really? the bastard should close up shop right after EMI.
3. their music sucks ass. Plenty of UK Indie labels offer better music
4. Who the fuck is Adele? (UK, are you guys about to bestow the world with another train wreck? Is this a revenge for Beiber and Timberlake? I thought we are even because of the spice girls.)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1375093/Google-threatens-destroy-pop-sensation-Adele-Britains-film-music-industries.htmlThe music and books retailer HMV and the music giant EMI are two of
the grand old dames of Britain’s music industry. But the future of both
these historic enterprises, with a pedigree of recording talent going
back almost a century, is in doubt.Together with other UK-based
creative champions such as Warner Music as well as a host of
imaginative, independent record producers, they are in danger of
extinction — as is this country’s extraordinarily successful music
business.From Dame Vera Lynn to Tom Jones and The Beatles,
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Britain has long had the knack of producing music superstars capable of
conquering the world. Indeed, we are still the world’s second- largest
exporters of music.
Artists like Adele, together with ground-breaking television production
and gaming companies, have made the creative industries an important and
growing sector of the British economy, accounting for seven per cent of
total national wealth.
-------This would allow for genuine price competition on the web rather than
an unfair war between the pirates and the legitimate outlets.None
of this might be enough to save HMV, or for that matter EMI or Warner
Music. The latter two big record producers, the bedrock of British rock
and classical recordings, are currently owned by the big banks after
their private equity owners failed to make loan repayments.(What no mention of Apple? Maybe Google should drop EMI & WMG from their next web store. ahahahaaa..... please of please....)
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Adele is pretty credible, actually. I don't like her music much, but I think she's signed to XL, which is part of Beggar's Group, and I have read some pretty sensible statements attributed to her. I don't know enough about her to really defend her properly of course, but she's no Justin Bieber, and I wouldn't dismiss her out of hand.
Their paranoia about the power of Google is not exactly unreasonable, I'd say, but how anyone can sentimentally pine away for massive, blundering corporations like EMI and WMG I have got absolutely no idea. They ceased to be what made them special many, many years ago and it had nothing to do with the internet.
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Yeah, I have to say that Adele is pretty great. No reason to lump her in with this just because someone decided to randomly drop her name in an article. That aside, I did have a good chuckle at "creative champions such as Warner Music".
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daily mail is one of the worst written newspapers in the UK... need more evidence...BOOM. That's the peak of their journalism skills... I can't stand the daily mail!
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'mkay. I spend little time listening to her albums.
- her first album is very clean and showing her voice.
- second album sounds like somebody trying variety and see what sticks.
I hope she won't end up becoming Wynonna Judd / Bette Middler clone after Columbia is done with her. They gonna exploit her search for full voice & nice melody by throwing ever higher pile of similarly sounding country gospel pop. Or worse, Dido. Gentrified gospel soul with electronic pop lounge.
The giants are bessie smith, Ella fitzgerald, Etta james.
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And squashed, just so's you know, 'Daily Mail reader' is English shorthand for pig-ignorant, racist, reactionary, bigotted, troglodyte fuckwit, so I wouldn't take anything they say too seriously. No one does here.
Except for course for the worrying number of Daily Mail readers.
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Yeah best to just ignore the Daily Mail, every time someone links to an article there it enrages me with how ill-informed a national newspaper is on almost every issue. Imagine Fox News for the gunless, whining, middle-aged English bores and you have the Daily Mail.
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I couldn't find, daily mail circulation size. hmmmpft...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail
The Daily Mail is a British, daily middle market tabloid newspaper. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982. Scottish and Irish editions of the daily paper were launched in 1947 and 2006 respectively. The Daily Mail was Britain's first daily newspaper aimed at the newly-literate "lower-middle class market resulting from mass education, combining a low retail price with plenty of competitions, prizes and promotional gimmicks",[2] and the first British paper to sell a million copies a day.[3]
It was, from the outset, a newspaper for women, being the first to
provide features especially for them, and is still the only British
newspaper whose readership is more than 50% female.
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what is wiki trying to say? lol.
Hey. maybe I should fantasized about having a wikipedia entry that reads like:
" xxyyzz blog Corp. was founded in 2012 for newly connected semi literate slackers mass market in the aftermath of global economic crisis. Its power pricing lies in combination of targeted e-coupon combined with more precise content segmentation based on demographic modeling. From the outset it was aimed at couch potatoes and tech cry babies looking for get rich quick scheme. Its main ideological based are christian atheist and socialistic market conservatism. Notorious contributors including Sarah Palin on feminism rubric and the Pope as champion of freedom of religion. Cooking with Taliban weekend articles however have been roundly criticized for its questionable nutrition advise. The much reported buy out of Fox News and NPR in 2018 have not been received well by Wall st. due to cost and questionable ROI, unlike the profitable acquisition of giant mega teen news site waka-waka-news.com. 2021 reported revenue was RNB 402.3 Billions, with 2.8 billion subscription accounts globally, dwarfing second biggest global media company Huffingtonpost-TimeWarner-NYT-News Corp by 2500%. Political activities including installing new regimes in The United States, China, Russia, Brazil and the UK. The news site is banned in Germany."
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They also supported the Nazis quite enthusiastically before the last World War, only to become born-again Englanders once it became clear on which side the bread was being buttered.
They are cunts.
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Oh and they're jingoistic fucktards whenever there's the possibility of a war going on describing anyone not calling for blood "treacherous". Nice people all round.
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hahaha i am loving these commentaries.
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Over the last couple of years, music recorded outside of the major
labels and released outside of what we think of as the traditional
mass-market commercial system has grown into something that looks more
and more like traditional success. The tops of the Billboard charts are regularly dotted with independently released albums. Arcade Fire's Grammy win for Album of the Year in February scanned as a fluke to those expecting a huge pop star to snag the award, but The Suburbs made its debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200
the same week the band played two sold-out shows at Madison Square
Garden. (One final note to anyone who expressed — or feigned —
befuddlement at the prize: You had 10 weeks to Google and/or listen to
the five nominees in this category.)This year, the world of indie music has another success story: Adele's, 21,
the biggest album of the year so far, with just over than a million
copies sold. That album is the product of XL Recordings, an independent
British label (21 was licensed to the major label Columbia
Records in the U.S.). Sure enough, one of its songs has been remixed —
by a member of The xx, another band that records for XL — for a
limited-edition release available on Record Store Day. Once the supply
is gone, that song will likely show up on MP3 blogs and be heard by far
more people than the few thousand who manage to get a copy on vinyl.
Which is a pretty fair representation of the relative space filled by
brick-and-mortar stores in a world dominated by the exchange of music
over the Internet — for money or not.http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/04/15/135442925/the-record-stores-are-alright
sometimes I have the feeling NPR is slacking off and scrub ideas from the blog. lol.
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Adele's '21' is 2011's first platinum album
Earlier in the week it was reported that Adele will be featured on
the cover of the next issue of Rolling Stone and now the British
powerhouse singer has another reason to celebrate. Her latest album, 21 is the first album of 2011 to go platinum.21 debuted at the top of the charts, selling 350,000 copies
and making it one of the biggest album debuts for 2011. In only seven
weeks, Adele has been able to sell over a million albums."Rolling In the Deep", the first single off of 21 has sold 610,000 units since it was released in November of 2010. PopEater
reports that last week the single has gone from being number 17 to
number 10, making it the first United States top 10 hit for Adele.http://thecelebritycafe.com/feature/adeles-21-2011s-first-platinum-album-04-14-2011
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