Curious wrote:Killa wrote:lol to say game "destroyed" g-unit in terms of them not selling is wrong
albums aint selling for anyone anymore people download thats the way it is. your name needs to be huge to sell. buck? banks? there not big names on the scale of eminem dr dre or 50 cent. what matters and should always matter is music quality,in that terms yes banks did flop and buck didnt.And how does game effect how buck/banks/g unit make albums? he doesnt. people like redman for example used to sell alot better but people download alot more latley. xzibit used to go plat each album. yet full circle flopped so hard you would of expected him to be a underground rapper.
Agree, but i think the reason why albums don't sell is a combi of things - ppl download and whether they do it legally or illegally isn't the point, the point is that the big companies have to deal with the fact that they do it, and they also have to deal with the fact that they are responsible for flooding the market with mediocre artists who don't have the talent to do big numbers (can any of you imagine Bobby Creek and Cashis going platinum?) - if you had to buy every half-decent rap album released you'd go bankrupt in no time, there's just too many artists out there
another thing is that if companies want ppl to keep buying cd's they should cut the damn prices - in my country a new release costs between 25-30 $, now it doesn't take an idiot to figure out that that price is ridiculously high considering the production costs of a cd are very low and if they reduced the price the sales would increase, it's simple economics (and yes i know it takes a lot of money to advertise a new album but if the companies would stop marketing bad artists as if they were god's gift to the universe they could target their investments more intelligently)
Good point about prices.
Here each cd costs me 50$ with the currency converted, i personnally cant be fucked to buy mainstream albums anymore, not only because they suck most of the time, but also because the price is rediculous, and americans cant get it in they head to expand their industry in other countries.
I used to work in a music shop and we had to order shit from Moscow every time, and that raised the costs of original albums even more. It was always easier to just bootleg albums, considering that a normal citizen abroad aint gonna pay for a cd that is 5-6 times the original pricing in proportion.
As for the US sales, the music is shit.... what do they expect? higher sales, and artists (especially in mainstream) are thickheaded, they just shift the blame.
