Musical Independece Revolution: Oasis joins the fight?
Tue, Oct 9, 2007
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Looks like [tag]Radiohead[/tag]’s latest independent approach to album promotion and sales, basically giving away their latest LP for how much you see fit, has sparked a wave a of revolution amongst the influential bands in the industry. Yesterday it was time for Trent Reznor and NIN to join in, after terminating their contract with their label and announcing “some exciting times for 2008.” Today we’ve found out that [tag]Oasis[/tag], curently unsigned to any label, are considering following the same golden path as Radiohead and release future albums in the same manner.
English alt veterans The Charlatans are also giving away their next, yet untitled, eleventh album, completely free as a digital download. Alan McGee, the musical impresario behind Oasis and Charlatans, believes that the business model for selling music is moribund and that future income will largely come from ticket sales for live shows and merchandising.
“I thought, ‘well nobody buys CDs anyway’. If you talk to a 19-year-old kid, they don’t buy CDs. In eastern Europe, nobody buys a CD – everything is digitally downloaded from the internet for nothing. I came to the conclusion, ‘Why don’t we just give it away for nothing’.”
Also a few months back [tag]Prince[/tag] gave away an estimated three million copies of his latest album,”Planet Earth,” with The Mail on Sunday, driving ticket sales for his record-breaking series of concerts at London’s O2 Arena. Clearly giving away albums isn’t quite as crazy and foolish as people may think, many artists have had more benefits then actual downsides, but this seems to apply to well established bands and artists. What about the emerging, young and aspiring bands? I’ll leave you to ponder upon that.
Tibi is the co-founder and current editor in chief of ZME Music. He's had a passion for music since when he can remember, but since he lacks the necessary skills to make music, he decided to simply mix in another passion of his: writing.
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October 9th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
“What about the emerging, young and aspiring bands? I’ll leave you to ponder upon that.”
The days of making millions from selling albums is over. The future of revenue for bands is ticket sales, new bands will boost their ticket sales by making their material available as cheap or free downloads. All thats lost is the leeches that accompany the industry at the moment. their loss will not be mourned by anyone but themselves.
October 9th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
nobody gives any credit to brian jonestown massacre. theyve been doing it for much longer… and are way cooler about it than these boring fucks
October 9th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
[quote comment="641"]nobody gives any credit to brian jonestown massacre. theyve been doing it for much longer… and are way cooler about it than these boring fucks[/quote]
Bravo!
November 7th, 2007 at 4:44 am
“set by Prince” because you don’t know the real ones who do this for years and years. My friend’s band is over because we did all the cds for R$ 2,98 each and sold it for R$ 3,00. And the songs are all over the internet. There are many other artists providing very good songs on the net for a long time, “and are way cooler about it than these boring fucks”
April 19th, 2010 at 6:01 am
hi i think oasis are ace!