what the estate needs to do is get taylor swift to cover a prince song.

taylor swifts fans buy a ton of vinyl.

lol

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

Gooddoctor23 said:

leadline said:

Nothing, people are spending a fortune on memorabelia and already released material, why would they care to put in the effort to get more Super Deluxe sets or unreleased music out?

I unfortunately am in agreement with u.

I doubt if we get more than 5 releases from the estate in the next 10 years.

By that time, I will be 70 and will care less about Prince or his estate.

I can clearly see why Prince didn't leave a will with these people in it.

The results are obvious.

So true. Same here.

FrankieCoco1 said:

Yeah, one of his unreleased ones, like Neurotic Lover’s Bedroom or Lust U Always

It would be brilliant, she could do something like this:

Your body reeks of trust/I will love you cause I must

Se7en said:

Vannormal said:

True, primary customers are not interested in Prince.

But 'teens' are not the general public, they are just 'teens' and they did not change since the fifties.

Teens in general as music fans have a really short time span.

Prince had his 'teens' as fans only between 1982 and 1985, maybe 1986, that was about it i believe.

Even by SOTT most 'teens' left the Prince camp.

I wonder how many 'teens' went for 'Welcome 2 America', and that album didn't do all that bad.

Correct me if i'm wrong.

Today's contemporary general music loving public is wider and becomming older than ever.

More often it's those with money, like older music lovers who still prefer to invest in albums, CDs, DVDs, boxsets or any form of music they can hold in their hands.

Streaming is more for (younger) adults, millenials, teens, children. All my humble opinion of course.

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To blow up an album in the charts (although I don't care for charts) it's all a matter of promotion and money and the constant changing effort a company has to put into it.

Still i belive that any popular indie acts can blow up the charts just like Taylor Swift, or just like The Beatles and Radiohead possibly can.

There's also a much shortes time span of trying to stay in the charts. There is also far more new releases available than ever before.

Its moslty all about gaining money from various ways of promoting any type of music.

You see artists like Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, etc. selling off their music rights for huge amounts. One of the reasons I'm sure is because physical sales are dead.

Someone like Bruce . . . you've sold most of the albums in LP, cassette, CD formats that you're going to sell. Physical is dead, save for purists out there. Streaming pays next to nothing, and touring at that age is not a constant. So, cash out.

Teens don't really buy music anymore. Everyone streams. Unless you are talking about hipsters who buy the vinyl.

Absolutely agree.

...and those so called hipsters you mentioned seems to be between 40 and 65 years old

...from what I read, people between this age range buy the most vinyl, and box sets.

Long Live The Hipsters I should say.

Although i hate the word Hipsters.

They are (if you like it or not) often the much needed (visual) trendsetters.