October
23
Music Sales: How Low Can They Go?
Hits magazine is reporting that Kid Rock will hold onto the No. 1 slot on the album chart for a second week, but his "Rock N Roll Jesus" will post the lowest sales total of any October chart-topper ever. Kid Rock, Hits calculates, will beat Bruce Springsteen's "Magic" by a very small margin.
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Music sales can, and will, go to absolute zero before the poor troglodites currently managing the industry will wake up and change business processes.
I guess we'll just have to wait for those utterly baffled folks to die of old age before we can have a viable industry again.
Posted by: Charles MacKay | October 24, 2007 at 05:53 AM
i think it's been going slowly downhill since they started phasing vinyl lp's out in the mass market in 1989-90, and that didn't really work it just went underground....i love my ipod, the magic is gone from going to the record store.
Posted by: ken | October 25, 2007 at 02:29 PM