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Re: Madonna is 50. Five-oh.
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Originally Posted by 1436
So AC/DC says they want to sell albums, not singles. That seems easy and it makes little sense that iTunes would deny this sort of control to acts that can sell enough to make it worthwhile. Set a bar and grant the power to any who make it over that bar. If the market doesn't want to pay for whole albums then the band suffers too.
But, Kid Rock complains that the royalty is not high enough. He points out that iTunes doesn't have all of the promotional expenses that a normal label does, so the royalty should be more than the royalty from a CD sale. Also a valid point, but nobody else can get his music on my ipod as a impulse purchase. (To be clear, there is no way Kid Rock would ever make it on in any case, but without iTunes it is even more unpossible.)
Both of these issues seem relatively minor. Is Apple really so stubborn that they can't get this sort of shit together?
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Well, it also makes little sense that AC/DC wouldn't explore other online avenues. iTunes isn't the only place that you can buy music online. Amazon is pretty competitive and doesn't have the restrictive software. And Radiohead, noted by Sebby to be more album oriented than singles oriented, doesn't sell on iTunes, but their most recent album was released on their website and did really well.
I think AC/DC is just stuck in the past, but they can get away with it because their fans are used to buying CDs.
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Last edited by Replaced_Texan; 10-23-2008 at 05:17 PM..
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