Alla är inte lika glada för att till exempel iTunes säljer många singlar. Jermaine Dupri har skrivit en debattartikel som attackerar iTunes och att de säljer enstaka låtar - han tyckar att artister/skivindustrin borde kunna tvinga iTunes att sälja hela album.

A Good Album is More than Just a Collection of Singles

Jag gillar speciellt citatet:

These days people just assume that you need a number one single to have a number one album. But look at what’s really happening. Soulja Boy sold almost 4 million singles and only 300,000 albums! We let the consumer have too much of what they want, too soon, and we hurt ourselves. Back in the day when people were excited about a record coming out we’d put out a single to get the ball going and if we sold a lot of singles that was an indication we’d sell a lot of albums. But we’d cut the single off a few weeks before the album came out to get people to wait and let the excitement build. When I put out Kris Kross we did that. We sold two million singles, then we stopped. Eventually we sold eight million albums!

Did consumers complain? Maybe so. But at what point does any business care when a consumer complains about the money? Why do people not care how we - the people who make music - eat? If they just want the single, they gotta get the album. That was how life was.

“That was how life was”.

Jag tror att det är någon som är nostalgisk och har fastnat i sina gamla hjulspår. Eller har han en poäng (trots vissa mindre väl valda ord)?

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