Greed and selfishness abound with the Cartel morons yet again folks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/09/arts/music/09sing.html?hp&ex=1141966800&en=c7b950d5c1d43739&ei=5094&partner=homepageEven though fans could hear "So Sick" on the radio for the last two months, they couldn't buy it at popular online services like iTunes or Rhapsody, or anywhere else for that matter. Breaking from the music industry's current custom, the singer's label — Island Def Jam — decided not to sell "So Sick" as an individual song before Ne-Yo's album hit stores last week. Label executives worried that releasing the track too early might cut into sales of the full CD — a fear that figures heavily in the music world's lumbering entry into the digital marketplace.
The results of fans' pent-up demand for Ne-Yo are now clear: his CD "In My Own Words," burst onto the national album chart yesterday at No. 1, with sales of more than 301,000 copies, easily ranking as the biggest debut of the year so far. And just as eye-popping: the digital single of "So Sick" sold almost 120,000 copies in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
There is still plenty of debate over the effect of holding off on sales of the digital single; many also note that Island Def Jam offered a discount to retailers who stocked the album, allowing it to sell at stores like Target for $7.98 last week.
But if the industry determines that restricting digital sales pays off with bigger album sales, fans may soon find the instant gratification of snapping up new songs online becoming a little less instant.
So this is the real truth of the matter, far from allowing music fans to obtain songs legally we are being treated to the old monopoly extortion trick, I have the idea folks wont wish to wait 2 months for a song and may just decide to obtain it freely online, after all the market waits for no man and playing fast and loose with the fans in this cynical way is sure to reap its own reward.
