Albums are dead.

Music is only perceived as dead from those either unmotivated to seek it, or too out of touch to know what to seek

 

I wish I'd never bought any.

 

Very sad news. RIP albums

 

Fully hijacked? Not at all - there are many fantastic, amazing, unique musicians and artists out there - a lot in fact! Some well known, some not as well known but I feel like your comment is not truly representative of the current state of the art of music as a whole

 

Who?

 

Maybe you should say RIP pop albums. Rock is still album oriented

 

Now it sounds like it is only a Billboard!

 

No, the Dead is music.

 

Totally agree. And I never bought so many used CDs then last year because of the crap brick walled or overly compressed CD mastering of most re-released CDs today.
Regarding your search for ‘The World’ by C.C.C.P, have you considered buying from other sources like Discogs? (CCCP* - The World )
It’s only a third of your Amazon prize over there and international shipping is not that expensive from many European countries like Germany. Even the U.S. seller is asking less than half the Amazon price.

 

Albums will never die. Not when any of us are still drawing breath, anyway.

So that's twenty, or thirty tears, then. Rock On!

 

In general artists still release their music as albums and they are offered as such not only on CD, but also as downloads or on streaming services. How you listen to these albums is entirely up to you. No one keeps you from listening to albums as a whole, not even when you stream them.

 

I think the discussion in this thread is overlooking the fact that there is little money to be made with creating albums. The music get streamed and the artist gets pennies on a thousand streams of a song.

The music business used to be about going on tour to promote an album. This is no longer the case. It's quite the opposite. If you catalog is deep enough, you can tour based on that. This isn't a new thing either. The Grateful Dead in the '80s toured without releasing an album until In the Dark. They were were consistently making as much as the biggest acts were actually selling records. The Who hasn't released an album since 2006 and before that it was 1982's It's Hard. But that doesn't stop them from going on tour and making millions. Taylor Swift who actually can actually sell multi-platinum certified albums easily made hundreds of millions from her last tour, but probably didn't make a tenth of that money from album sales.

Yes we can include streaming as a reason behind the decline of albums sales. But let's be real. The money isn't in selling records any more. The real money is in touring. The artists have learned that it doesn't matter if their audience buy their albums. The real money is in charging $100 for nosebleed seats in a stadium. Sure artists will still release an album. Van Morrison released 4 of them in less than a year and a half. But, let's be real, it really doesn't matter financially. Artists go on tour to make money.

 

Ya, and why should people care about "the market". I have records and cds, and enjoy them.

 

There are more albums being released than ever imo. If you followed the best albums of 2018 thread you'd realise that.

 

"Albums Are Dead". I may get that printed on a shirt that I will happily wear at the record show I'm going to in February.

 

Or you could just burn your own CD and print your own artwork?? That's what I did.

 

Unless you can get 500 a night paying customers, you're probably not making money on tour either...

 

I wish the billboard charts were dead.

 

It's not dead. It's resting.

 

"Rumors of my albums' deaths have been greatly exaggerated".

 

They’ll have to pry my buggywhips from my cold, dead hands. Er, I mean albums.

 

Piss off with your inane BS.

 

This one really hurts.

 

Well... I guess the cat's out of the bag.

I've read through some of the Paul McCartney threads here and your theory appears to have serious merit from what I've seen. It's horrible....

D.D.

 

Exactly.