{"id":677,"date":"2014-09-03T15:57:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T19:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=677"},"modified":"2014-09-03T15:57:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T19:57:18","slug":"low-music-sales-simply-due-bad-music-hypebot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/low-music-sales-simply-due-bad-music-hypebot\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Low Music Sales Simply Due To Bad Music? – hypebot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are Low Music Sales Simply Due To Bad Music? – hypebot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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That’s been my guess for A LONG time. A LOT of bad music, empty of innovation and creative spark, filled with studio enhancement tricks to make talentless singers sound adequate, being shoved down our throats by the major labels, who then turn around and blame the bands and their fans for the piracy that is OBVIOUSLY killing music sales…<\/p>\n

How about this…Indie Artists are producing and publishing volumes of great music everyday, and people are spending their consumer dollars ELSEWHERE. Yes, that’s right Sony, people are choosing to buy REAL MUSIC directly from REAL MUSICIANS and artist friendly music services, and it’s cutting into your sales and profits.<\/p>\n

Like they say on Shark Tank…if you’re selling a crappy product, your sales are going to suck. OK, they don’t actually say that, but tell me it isn’t true?<\/p>\n

Maybe if the record labels stop exploiting artists and fans, and start finding new, innovative, and inspired acts that are creating new and imaginative art, they can get back on track. Or, they can keep doing what they’re doing…exploiting crap for profit while shunning any semblance of true inspiration, and carving thier niche in history with the dinosaurs and 8 track tape decks in the car.<\/p>\n

Anyhoo, check out the article that I sorta read before going off on this rant.\u00a0Are Low Music Sales Simply Due To Bad Music?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are Low Music Sales Simply Due To Bad Music? – hypebot. That’s been my guess for A LONG time. A LOT of bad music, empty of innovation and creative spark, filled with studio enhancement tricks to make talentless singers sound adequate, being shoved down our throats by the major labels, who then turn around and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[318,304,231,9,265,10,173],"tags":[348,314,241,347,317,345,352,520,350,346,351,349],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-for-the-musician","category-information","category-music","category-opinion","category-politics","category-random-things","tag-hypebot","tag-indie-brew-2","tag-indie-music","tag-indiebrew","tag-indiebrew-net","tag-low-music-sales","tag-mtv","tag-music","tag-music-industry","tag-record-labels","tag-shark-tank","tag-soundscan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":785,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/in-6-months-soundcloud-has-approved-just-100-premier-partners-via-hypebot\/","url_meta":{"origin":677,"position":0},"title":"In 6 Months SoundCloud Has Approved Just 100 Premier Partners – via Hypebot","date":"March 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning SoundCloud announced that they've signed up 100\u00a0Premier Partners and paid them\u00a0$1 million\u00a0in advertising revenue since launching 6 months ago. 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