Taken from Billboard

"Incubus earns its first No. 1 album on The Billboard 200 this week with the Epic set "Light Grenades," which moved 165,000 copies in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan. The rock outfit's last set, 2004's "A Crow Left of the Murder," debuted at No. 2, though with a 332,000 start."

Not saying anything Incubus (I'm neither here nor there with them) but take a look at those numbers....and it's the holiday season! What the hell!

Goddamn. There's no more joy in following anyone's career, anyways. It always goes down the toilet

PurpleKnight said:

Even good stuff isn't selling. No one bought Bob Dylan's latest.

VoicesCarry said:

That aspect is unfortunate, but maybe this is the only way record labels will be motivated to make changes.

PurpleKnight said:

Eventually it will be more cost-effective to hire people who are dependable and make music instead of bargain-basement whores like Britney Spears who don't even show up for recording sessions.

Anybody believes downloads have something to do with poor sales?

If you can get it for free, why pay for it?

PANDURITO said:

That's the first thought that came to my mind. I'm sure tons if Incubus fans had the whole album downloaded before it even hit stores. Why would they head over there to get it now?

PANDURITO said:

No. Downloads were most prevalent around 2001-2002, and there was no problem then.

Music really started to suck after 2002, though. I mean the number of new albums I've purchased in a year has dropped drastically since then.

VoicesCarry said:

Sorry, but hah!
People have their iPods full

Full of stolen music

good that sales are low

and fuck apple as well

im not going to pay apple ipods to buy songs in their shitty format which you cant even use on other mp3 players,

i say fuck em,

if you want music, just go and download free from torrents or p2p

especially all this shitty chart stuff

do you really think people want to pay for garbage like Incubus?

anyone who does buy shit like that deserves to be shot in the arse crack

anyways, its not as though these rich musicians are struggling,

fuck em i say,

torrents are the way forward,

the music they play

and we dont pay

we just download free

the last time i paid for music was more than a decade ago

Naw its because everyones flowin out da closet.

The gays are not afraid anymore to be out.
They're not in the closet anymore struggling with themselves and creating good entertainment.

When there's something worth buying people will buy it.

The entire world is not downloading, it's like saying there's not a block buster movie right now because downloading.

Actually it's because the movies suck right now (Bond is good though) and so does music (how many more Christmas albums do we need?)

good records sell, and they sell better over the long run as opposed to the initial 500,000 followed by a plummet. ask u2 and madonna.

sallysassalot said:

So people buy good records and download shit.
Yeah, it makes a lot of sense

There's always an excuse for steling music.
First it was too expensive.
Now it's shit.
Well, if you don't like it, why download it?