lw TW Chart
21 20 Hot 100
41 41 Hot 100 Airplay
15 16 Pop 100
16 15 Pop 100 Airplay
13 13 Mainstream Top 40
14 14 Hot AC Tracks
24 21 Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks
16 16 Hot Digital Tracks
16 16 Hot Digital Songs
19 18 Canadian Hot 100
28 23 Hot Canadian Digital Singles
35 35 Hot Ringmasters

Only one number in the red. Way to go, Archie! :thumbup_tb:

So enterprising capitalists came up with Itunes and their ilk (“Fine, you only want one song– you can have it legally for just a dollar!”)

One of the trends I see this leading to is what I’ll call the increased “poppification” of music. Now we’re moving in a direction where every song has to be of the hit variety. I’m with those who hate filler on albums (who isn’t?), but some great songs on many albums aren’t (or in the past weren’t) meant to be radio single-types. I see that changing now.

Wonder what its Hot 100 Airplay placement is this week.

lw TW Chart
21 20 Hot 100
16 15 Pop 100 Airplay
13 13 Mainstream Top 40
14 14 Hot AC Tracks
24 21 Hot Adult Top 40 Tracks
16 16 Hot Digital Songs

Trending upwards again this week. Way to go, Archie!!! :thumbup_tb:

lw TW Artist Title
21 20 DAVID ARCHULETA CRUSH
28 24 HUDSON*JENNIFER SPOTLIGHT-REMIXES
20 27 JORDIN SPARKS ONE STEP AT A TIME
37 34 CARRIE UNDERWOOD JUST A DREAM
– 60 DAVID COOK LIGHT ON

R&B 100
1 2 HUDSON*JENNIFER SPOTLIGHT-REMIXES

No word yet as to where Daughtry is–probably somewhere in 51-100.

Oh, yeah, this is about the Idols- well, I hope that they allow their albums to be on Lala, Rhapsody, etc. I think it’s the future of the music biz, and it’s better to find a way to make new technology work for you than to try to keep things from changing.

The Time of My Life also bounces upward, 118-94, selling 13,000, up 34%, for a total of 970,000.

Today’s technology is inadvertantly phasing out physical media. Sorry for this long pointless post.

How did they use to sell LPs when 45s were purchased like popcorn?

I think a lot of it is just the technology. Playing singles on 45 was a pain in the ass! Thank god I was a kid in the early 80s and had the energy to get up every 4 minutes and put a new one hit wonder on the turntable.

I still download whole albums from my favorite artists, but I’ve noticed that I don’t always listen to them once they’re added to the other 6,000 or whatever songs on my iPod. I remember downloading the latest REM album months ago, but I know I haven’t sat and listened to it from beginning to end yet and maybe I never will. I’ve heard a few of the songs while shuffling ALL of my REM songs. So even though I haven’t given up on buying albums, I certainly don’t sit and absorb whole albums the way I used to when I only bought physical CDs. The iPod has definitely messed with my attention span.

Anyway, these days, folks just donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t have the patience to sit through an entire album. People fill their Ipods up with a potpourri of tunes from different artists and find that satisfying.

That’s, me for the most part, but there are exceptions. But if I find an artist or an album I really love, then I do order the whole thing, (usually on iTunes, but occasionally from Amazon if the physical CD is a better deal, and I have the patience to wait for it to ship.) I typically listen to songs from one of my mixed music playlists, but sometimes my mood strikes, and I might feel like listening to some Dave Matthews, or Death Cab, or Green Day or whatever. Then, I’ll play their whole album because those artists tend to make records with a cohesive sound that I enjoy listening to the whole way through. But lately, it takes a lot for me to buy a whole album. I fell in love with a couple of songs from Ingrid Michaelson’s last album, but I never loved the rest of the songs enough to complete the album. I already like a handful of the new songs from Be OK, but the complete album function is such a safety net for me that even if I decide there are 5 great songs worth buying, I won’t feel compelled to get the whole thing. I can just slap those 5 new songs in a playlist with the other 2 I have, and I’ll have a 7-song playlist of Ingrid Michaelson that’s kind of like creating my own “Best Of” compilation without having to buy any full albums. I mean, to have 5 great songs on an album is really not easy/common, so I’m a difficult customer!

Btw, thanks for the heads up on the Snow Patrol sale. I’ve actually never ordered MP3′s from Amazon before, but I’m definitely ordering that for the cost of 4 songs!

How did they use to sell LPs when 45s were purchased like popcorn?

Back in the day, music wasn’t such big business. It was a really big deal when an album went gold. Selling 500,000 copies of an album was considered incredible. It wasn’t until the late 70′s when some of that started to change, then you could still buy singles, but albums were already overtaking the marketplace. Then, you could buy cassettes to play in your car. (I never bought cassettes, I thought it was terrible technology, and I was right. I went from albums, straight to CD) Part of the reason so many CDs sold in the 90′s was that folks were buying greatest hits, reissues and compilations to replace their old albums.

Anyway, these days, folks just don’t have the patience to sit through an entire album. People fill their Ipods up with a potpourri of tunes from different artists and find that satisfying.

I still like to buy CDs. I like to own my music. It’s a little bit more work, but I prefer to rip a digital copy from a CD, like when I made home made tapes from the albums I bought back in the 80′s. It’s the best of both worlds!

At this point, in order to sell albums, they have to be more than just a collection of songs. Every song is going to have to be good, and maybe producers will have to incorporate themes–making albums that NEED to be listened to from beginning to end. It used to be that way, but not any more.