It's a copy that generates revenue for the creator. Who cares if this is a physical media or digital download?
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iTunes-Exclusive Beyonce Album Breaks Records With 828,773 Copies Sold in 3 Days
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It's a copy that generates revenue for the creator. Who cares if this is a physical media or digital download?
Sorry but this is inaccurate. The album was on pirated sites within a couple of hours. I checked one of the most famous sites the following morning (PirateBay) and thousands of people were already downloading it.
If Apple keeps 30% she has made about $9.8 Million already.
I wish I had that kind of iTunes store revenue.
Yeah before you deduct for music videos, points for the producers and writers (for whatever she didn't write), the labels cut, but I'm sure she still took a SERIOUS cut!
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Cds are digital too.
CD-DA - the second D stands for digital
I saw it on my favorite warez site the day before.
If i knew what it was I would have downloaded it then
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Not related to Beyonce (actually, it is related), but I'm not a fan of flooding the entire iTMS home page with a single artist/album. Since I'm not into her music, I rather have my "own" personal home page or at least, not be forced to look deeper to find what I usually find right on the home page.
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Anyway, nice for her (and her boyfriend... and her agent... and her record company)!
Not related to Beyonce (actually, it is related), but I'm not a fan of flooding the entire iTMS home page with a single artist/album. Since I'm not into her music, I rather have my "own" personal home page or at least, not be forced to look deeper to find what I usually find right on the home page.
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Anyway, nice for her (and her boyfriend... and her agent... and her record company)!
I said before release; not a couple of hours after, and I acknowledged that it would be after release. My comment was accurate in that "Beyoncé" wasn't saturated within the pirate community before release since no one was out there ripping an early copy of the physical release a couple of weeks beforehand.
People like immediacy and if an album leaks, I think a lot of people (not all) will just pirate it since they want to hear it as soon as possible. I'm sure plenty of people were cheap and just waited to pirate it anyway, but IMHO it's better to have the first source for an album to be iTunes rather than piracy.
Cd?
I'm not buying anymore digital albums, I'll wait for the CD/DVD version to get released.
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So basically you are saying if you knew what you were stealing you definitely would have stole it. What a *****.
I'm not buying anymore digital albums, I'll wait for the CD/DVD version to get released.
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So basically you are saying if you knew what you were stealing you definitely would have stole it. What a *****.
I was going to mention that.. Not only did she play the video off to be in a run down part of town, but The Age actually described that part of town as rather hipster and modern.
BL.
Call a turd by any other name, it will still stink as much.
Whatever.
I've stolen nothing.
I assume you're joking.
Beyoncé is one of the few artists out there with pitch perfect hearing. Let alone the quality and range of her voice. No auto tune. But you are clearly one of these talk **** now and screw the truth later types
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Just a question, but did def leopard do this with no advertisement, release date, publicity, public knowledge of when and where to buy it?? If so, then yes, that is quite impressive. That's the most impressive thing about this for me. She did it with no advertising whatsoever, and was number 1 in 104 countries within three hours of unpublicized release.
Beyoncé is one of the few artists out there with pitch perfect hearing. Let alone the quality and range of her voice. No auto tune. But you are clearly one of these talk **** now and screw the truth later types
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Just a question, but did def leopard do this with no advertisement, release date, publicity, public knowledge of when and where to buy it?? If so, then yes, that is quite impressive. That's the most impressive thing about this for me. She did it with no advertising whatsoever, and was number 1 in 104 countries within three hours of unpublicized release.
Pitch perfect? LOL. The truth is she can't sing and you only have to listen to her live to hear that. Quality and range? Please! Open your mind, forget the spin and try listening to some true singers. The difference is like night and day if you have a decent Hi Fi system.
