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iTunes-Exclusive Beyonce Album Breaks Records With 828,773 Copies Sold in 3 Days
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I have to disagree about Lady Gaga. Find me another pop artist that can play 15 instruments, writes their own lyrics, and can sing without synth.
Start laughing loudly, then after 6 seconds increase the volume of your laugh by 250%.
Yeah, but Blue Ray (and everything below it) is nowhere close to actual quality. Nor is that 4k video you're about to buy soon. I just think it's funny that people who bitch and moan about audio being compressed have no issue with compressed video.
I just think it's funny that you're holding up 44.1 KHz CDs up as your own personal standard.
The ad you quoted claims the audio is "virtually indistinguishable" from the (96 KHz) original recordings. Now, ok, I get that you don't buy that and think they're lying, but do you really think they're lying by THAT much? That when they claim is sounds close to 96 you're saying that it's worse than 44?
If that's true that's a pretty bold lie on their part.
lossless=useless?
Just think about where the average person listens to music. I would guess that 90% of music is 'consumed' in the car or on headphones and maybe in the house.
Lossless is useless if the speakers aren't in an environment that supports the quality. Why offer lossless when HOW the overwhelming majority of people listen to music would make the argument of quality moot?
Just think about where the average person listens to music. I would guess that 90% of music is 'consumed' in the car or on headphones and maybe in the house.
Lossless is useless if the speakers aren't in an environment that supports the quality. Why offer lossless when HOW the overwhelming majority of people listen to music would make the argument of quality moot?
I also thought the same about Lady Gaga, especially since most artists now couldn't play an instrument to save their lives. She is one that proved me wrong, as well Katy Perry, especially if she took her guitar and wares to Nashville to belt out a Christian Album and try to become the next Amy Grant, which she wrote the music for.
But then again, I have high standards; a singer is just that: a singer. A musician is someone who can sing and play an instrument at the same time. Gaga and Perry have that. For that matter, I'd love to see Beyonce could do behind a piano.
BL.
Find it hilarious when folks say "their music taste is better than someone else's."
Quit living in that fantasy. Your music taste is *no better* than anyone else's. Get off your high horse.
Astounding the arrogance of some folks on here. Astounding.
w00master
Quit living in that fantasy. Your music taste is *no better* than anyone else's. Get off your high horse.
Astounding the arrogance of some folks on here. Astounding.
w00master
It is just for iTunes only. Again, who said it "breaks records" other than that?
Again, have you done a blind ABX listening comparison to make sure you can actually hear the difference?
What are you using to listen to these? I was never, ever blown away by CD quality on anything I ever used. No, I never spent $200 on headphones.
About the only times I have been able to tell about imperfections is using my car's Bluetooth audio. I can hear a few cracks on certain tracks. But that could just be Bluetooth instead of a direct connection.
I'm looking to buy some decent wireless headphones if I buy anything aside from the ear pods. The only time in the past I have ever been able to tell massive audio quality improvement is when buying movies or music that use DTS. Back in the late 1990s I bought a few DTS audio discs. THAT was like being in the recording studio. Replicate that digitally and I will pay more for it.
Have you noticed the title of this very thread?
"iTunes-Exclusive Beyonce Album Breaks Records With 828,773 Copies Sold in 3 Days".
Again, if you're going to claim that something breaks records, you should have a good comparison as to what record it broke. In this case, the claim is that many copies sold in that many days. There are stats that show that more copies have been sold in faster time.
BL.
Jay Z is impressed, and happy at the same time no doubt. Quite the power couple.
It's a real shame that in 2013 the music industry is still dominated by clever marketing over good content. Wiggle your fat ass in a music video and you sell loads of records whether or not you can actually sing. Tragic. No wonder the music industry is going down the toilet.
The question left to be asked is...
If the marketing were the same (all's fair in being equal), would we have the same argument here if the artist were, say, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Kajagoogoo, Thompson Twins, Bay City Rollers, Eric Carmen, Martika, Shaun Colvin, Eagle Eye Cherry, and Shelley Farbares (just pulling names out of my head from various decades)?
If so, then music would definitely be in a bad state, because marketing would take precedence over the artist's content.
BL.
Not so. Good things can be popular. But in case they are not.
Good in this instance is very opinionated. You could say it sold well therefore it's good and you'd be correct. Someone else could say the music quality is bad therefore it's bad and they'd be correct too. It all depends on what aspect you are saying is good or bad.
Thank you.
Quality is subjective. I agree.
Popularity is objective. I disagree. Popularity is relative. People always say something is more popular than something else. In this instance this album is more popular than other albums on iTunes.
I have listened to the iTunes previews and the album is just as good as her others. Not the worst thing I've ever heard but not even close to anything I would call good. But quality is subjective. And you can't say high sales equals quality. As mindless sheep of people have brought bad things before en mass.
The album is more popular than other albums on iTunes in sales. That is fact. Each person will make their own mind up if they like the album.
Not sure I follow your argument but sadly the music industry has all too often been about style over substance to make a quick buck for record companies, as your list clearly demonstrates.
I've heard better singers busking on my local high street than Beyonce but she sells records because she has the marketing juggernaut behind her.
Sorry dint mean to be a snob. I like almost all types of music. Just not pop. Which is interesting becaus that the opposite to most. The more music I hear, the more respect I gain for a style, from classical to rock to hip hop. But at the same time, pop becomes duller and duller.
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Yeah I know, just personally I fond the popular stuff, the least musically interesting
Sorta my point. Some of those in that list clearly had more substance than style, but if it weren't for the marketing behind Beyonce, wouldn't have carried those numbers.
And seeing the numbers that some artists have put up that were clearly based on style or some sort of gimmick over the past few years, you can easily tell when things really picked up, then went downhill.
Choose your decade: 1990s? Right around 1996/1997.
1980s? 1983, and 1987.
1970s? I would say 1977, though could have been earlier.
My point: we've seen enough sales like this to almost go 'ho hum' about it over the years. Now.. If Paul McCartney's new album did this, then there would be something to talk about, because there would be very few living artists that could have that number of album sales in at least 5 different decades.
Agreed.
BL.
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Glad she sold so many and made a ton of money. I have no respect for the woman because she can't be honest with the world and tell us she used a surrogate for her first child. Don't be ashamed, someone did a wonderful thing for you, be honest about it and tell the world.
Glad she sold so many and made a ton of money. I have no respect for the woman because she can't be honest with the world and tell us she used a surrogate for her first child. Don't be ashamed, someone did a wonderful thing for you, be honest about it and tell the world.
Simple. iTunes is digital. It broke the digital record. The album isn't available physically yet.
