Happy New Year!
I’ve had a fantastic year this year, mainly due to Libby but there have been other highlights too! I hope that everyone has a great year in 2010!
Good Hunting
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-27
- @james_dunmore Driving was also fun a 6 this morning
in reply to james_dunmore # - @AndiSmith Bit too expensive for us I fear - though I do want to take Libby
in reply to AndiSmith # - @dhawes667 Watched the Alex James one last night, slightly surreal. in reply to dhawes667 #
- Thinks whoever kept Simon Amstell on Never Mind the Buzzcocks for so long was very dumb #
- RAGE! #
Merry Christmas everybody
A Merry Christmas to everyone, I’m looking forward to tomorrow - Libby’s going to love her presents!
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Good Hunting
Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.
So Rage Against the Machine made Christmas number one ahead of the X factor winner - should that have a capital ‘F’, I’m not sure. Horay for music in general I say, better an old classic holding the top spot than an unproven guy who from what I’ve heard hasn’t even written anything of his own - not to mention what it sounds like.
With sales of 500,000 to it’s name Killing in the Name beat Joe McElderry’s by 50,000 apparently [1], that’s a lot of downloads from lets face it, people who already own the song. There is a funny bit in the bbc article that Charlie pointed out where they are trying to say that the bad weather may have stopped people buying the X factor single - but there wasn’t a Rage single out - and it wouldn’t have stopped downloads. There’s also a “great” piece about the track here. What does this say other than half a million people in Britain are up for a laugh?
Well I think it does say something, the other day there was the news that people were still downloading music illegally and that all the legal services hadn’t made a huge dent in this activity. Perhaps this is because music isn’t what it once was and people want to buy decent music? Who want’s to pay premium prices for music that they either already own or know is years old? With the loss of Woolworths and Virgin/Zavvi from the UK highstreet there aren’t that many places to pick up older music other than HMV which I wouldn’t class as cheap in any reality.
Give people the justification to buy music and they will - people aren’t afraid to use the music services, as we’ve seen here, it’s just that the content isn’t great or isn’t value for money - I think the second point is the more likely. I think that the music industry needs to turn into more of a mass market, more for less you might say. Or it might all just be a lot of people hate Simon Cowell. It’ll also give the Daily Mail something to rant about.
Good Hunting
[1] Rage Against the Machine beat X Factor winner in charts, BBC
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-20
- Snow! #
- @simon_dyson Thanks! Can’t believe it’s been two years! in reply to simon_dyson #
- Everyone was starting to party two years ago today… #
- Tis very cold this morning. #