2008 Woodie Awards
The Scoop with the Coop:
The download effect
Rodney Cooper
Issue date: 11/9/07 Section: Opinion
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With the constant rise of music being downloaded off the internet, today's musical artists are now facing a major drop in album sales.
According to an article in Washingtonpost.
com CD sales are down 10% from last year. In the days before downloading goons such as napster, kazaa, bearshare, limewire, itunes, and etc, megastar artists were selling platinum albums like hot cakes and making a lot money for themselves and their labels.
Another problem artists are now facing because of downloading is pressure from their labels to make songs such as dance, pop, and ring tone type music in order to increase sales of their CDs.
This is why every time you turn on the radio a new dance is being rapped about. This only limits the artist's true ability to make the quality music because they're not making the music they want or are used to making.
Some artists, however, use this situation to their advantage. New Orleans native, mega rap superstar, Lil Wayne, is quite used to having his music downloaded constantly.
He has even had an entire album leaked to the internet for millions to download. But on the flip side he uses this, in a way, to promote himself.
"I'm starting a new trend," he stated in an interview displayed in an article on mtv.com he explains how one of his songs can be leaked and then shortly following the leak there would be people requesting to use the song on a soundtrack in a mixtape.
But this outcome largely is an unfortunate event for others. It is a problem in the music industry for all genres of music to have this issued resolved.
All I can say is that if you want to see your favorite artist succeed and make his/her type of music throughout
the future, go out and support them buy buying his or her CDs. If you keep downloading, there will soon be no music to download.
I'm Sir Coop and this has been your inside Scoop.
According to an article in Washingtonpost.
com CD sales are down 10% from last year. In the days before downloading goons such as napster, kazaa, bearshare, limewire, itunes, and etc, megastar artists were selling platinum albums like hot cakes and making a lot money for themselves and their labels.
Another problem artists are now facing because of downloading is pressure from their labels to make songs such as dance, pop, and ring tone type music in order to increase sales of their CDs.
This is why every time you turn on the radio a new dance is being rapped about. This only limits the artist's true ability to make the quality music because they're not making the music they want or are used to making.
Some artists, however, use this situation to their advantage. New Orleans native, mega rap superstar, Lil Wayne, is quite used to having his music downloaded constantly.
He has even had an entire album leaked to the internet for millions to download. But on the flip side he uses this, in a way, to promote himself.
"I'm starting a new trend," he stated in an interview displayed in an article on mtv.com he explains how one of his songs can be leaked and then shortly following the leak there would be people requesting to use the song on a soundtrack in a mixtape.
But this outcome largely is an unfortunate event for others. It is a problem in the music industry for all genres of music to have this issued resolved.
All I can say is that if you want to see your favorite artist succeed and make his/her type of music throughout
the future, go out and support them buy buying his or her CDs. If you keep downloading, there will soon be no music to download.
I'm Sir Coop and this has been your inside Scoop.
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