OMG that is the funniest thing I've seen posted on the internets in a long while.
Nice one.
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Amazon Hits iTunes Again With $0.99 Lady Gaga Album, Qualifies for Cloud Drive Storage Upgrade
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OMG that is the funniest thing I've seen posted on the internets in a long while.
Nice one.
I still think Google and Apple's music services will be much more appealing options for me. Guess I'll pass on this.
I just had my Hard Drive crash (or something got corrupted) on me last week and I spent my weekend replacing the HD in my iMac and then trying to retrieve files from my old HD, I was successful in doing so but it is a pain in the ...
$0.99 to for Amazon to give me a 20GB storage locker for a year is a deal, and I intend to use it.
I have way more respect for Lady Gaga as an artist than most. For everyone that thinks she's over the top in dress, etc., they obviously must not have lived through the space rock (e.g. David Bowie) or hair metal days (e.g. Early Bon Jovi, Poison, etc.). I haven't heard much from this album, but I certainly thought Poker Face and LoveGame were excellent sounding (although I thought 'disco stick' was a bad sounding euphemism in LoveGame). But then I like music by the Pet Shop Boys, Delirium and others. My favorite artist Tori Amos also writes and performs all her own music. My favorite band Pink Floyd also wrote their own stuff (well as long as Roger Waters was there anyway; Gilmour had a little help on their last album from his wife with lyrics).
In any case, for 99 cents, I'm more than happy to buy the album and check it out. Getting a year of 20GB cloud drive is just a boon. For everyone saying Amazon is desperate or whatever, I don't really care what you call it. It works. I bought the album and have 20GB of cloud storage. The heck on Apple. Too little, too late. I also don't like VBR AAC since it didn't play on my last car stereo (haven't tried it yet on my new car's stereo; AAC without VBR plays fine on both as does all MP3, VBR or not).
Pretty cool. For $1 you get a lot of stuff. If nothing else, I tried their cloud player. I'll be putting the album in iTunes and early await Apple's integrated solution for cloud playback.
Amazon has done a pretty good job with their cloud player! C'mon Apple!
Amazon has done a pretty good job with their cloud player! C'mon Apple!
You forgot to mention Madonna. I have nothing against Lady GaGa or her music, but let's not forget this has been done before. From the outfits, to the religious imagery, the shock value, etc...Not that there's anything wrong with it, especially if she's successful, but her "act" isn't exactly original.
That is incorrect, she is a great musician and great singer. The bad thing is the songs she sings are ****. This was forced upon her as normal stuff don't sell as well.
Before she was famous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM51qOpwcIM&feature=related
That is incorrect, she is a great musician and great singer. The bad thing is the songs she sings are ****. This was forced upon her as normal stuff don't sell as well.
Before she was famous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM51qOpwcIM&feature=related
I don't think it was 'forced' on her at all. She writes her own music... she can't blame anyone!
what a freaking joke!
99 cents for a whole album. Jesus Christ!
What type of marketing is that?
This Ga Ga chick is hot and her albums cost million to produce. And you wonder why the music biz is so effing sh***!
Amazon is giving away a whole album for a buck on an artist, question her talent if you will, that is red hot just to move their freaking tiered cloud service.OMFG!!!
If you want to politicize minutia go ahead. Go and bi*** about the price difference and say Apple is taking food from your ten kid's mouth. Ha ha! I'm not leaving itunes for nobody.
99 cents for a whole album. Jesus Christ!
What type of marketing is that?
This Ga Ga chick is hot and her albums cost million to produce. And you wonder why the music biz is so effing sh***!
Amazon is giving away a whole album for a buck on an artist, question her talent if you will, that is red hot just to move their freaking tiered cloud service.OMFG!!!
If you want to politicize minutia go ahead. Go and bi*** about the price difference and say Apple is taking food from your ten kid's mouth. Ha ha! I'm not leaving itunes for nobody.
Thats one of the things I noticed when fact checking my statement since I couldn't find the original article was that back then singles were done in a lot different way so its kind of hard to compare. Even still though four number 1 hits (and I'm not sure how many other top 10 hits) from one album is quite an accomplishment.
Amazon is the one losing money on this not the record labels.
I was tempted at the 99 cents until reading the fine print. You get automatically enrolled in a cloud service that starts charging after a year. (From what I understood it to mean anyway).
I generally never like a whole album anyway and just pick and choose songs to download.
EDIT: No, you do not get automatically enrolled in a cloud service and you can move the files into iTunes.
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So What Do Lady Gaga, Paris Hilton, and Sarah Palin
....all have in common?
They are all media "HOs"....
At least Amazon got the price right based on the quality of the artist
....all have in common?
They are all media "HOs"....
At least Amazon got the price right based on the quality of the artist
Amazon has quite the problem on their hands. Thousands, if not more, of people who bought the album hours ago are still unable to download it, and have no idea of when they will be able to. That's not exactly how you want to introduce your Cloud Drive service, nor will it lead to positive word of mouth.
That is one of the stupidest a** comments I have ever heard. You really believe what you wrote? You sound like one of the best, naive people on the net. Ha ha!I do not think so, Apple is a day late and a dollar short. Remember what Bill said to Steve, it does not matter who is better, it is who is FIRST!
The iPad is losing and the iPhone is flatlined, why, because Apple is not inovative, they keep playing the same old song, the iPod is IOS, the iPhone is IOS, the iPad is IOS, Mac OS X is IOS............
What is there virtual cloud, iCloud IOS?
What does it have to do with music services? Can't you just buy the album (and then use any cloud service if you want to)?
you know who's losing? The artist. Music isn't a commodity like coal and gas. It is an intellectual property.
Your posts tend to make sense, but this one doesn't. No-one is forcing you to actually use the cloud service. Just simply do not use it. I haven't.
At 99 cents you can get them all and then delete the ones you dislike, unlike iTunes, which I'm guessing is 99 cents per song.
Utter ********. Why don't you read some posts before posting? Amazon will be the one loosing out. Do you really think the record companies will willingly just loose money? It'd be the first time ever if it is the case.
More like millions but they have a notice on the site now explaining the technical problems and assuring all their customers that they will get the entire album--but maybe not today.
Any arguments about the artist "losing" originate way way way before Amazon decided to discount this one album.
As others have mentioned before, Amazon is likely taking that economic hit on this sale to attract more people to its music store. At the end of the day it will likely owe the record label as much as it would have owed had it sold the album at full price. And Lady Gaga will receive royalties at the equivalent amount.
Artists stopped making money on albums years ago... gone are the days when an album sells 34 million copies or something...
Artists now make money on TOURING. That's why U2 tour non-stop, that's why Madonna charges $400 a seat, that's why Gaga herself was on tour for over a year.
No, this is wildly smart and financially savvy. It's a great use of advertising budget dollars. They could spend millions on advertisements, or pull you in with a door buster deal.
1. It pulls people into their MP3 store, many for the first time. Now they see how easy it is to buy there, cheaper than iTunes mostly ALWYAS anymore.
2. Giving the first year of Cloud service again inducts a user in the service, and when their $20 renewal arrives it's money in Amazon's pocket.
3. The Amazon MP3 store with the Cloud Drive could lure people out of itunes. Imagine people who work in office settings that are maybe allowed to ahve music, but don't have thier itunes at work. Cloud Drive... one of the few practical reasons I can see people using it.
I also think the record label knows what a stinker this album is. It's ok, mostly filler tracks and pales in comparison to the first. They've done everything from promoting it in Farmville to giving a track a day away... I bet Amazon is getting an incentive to do this as well.