par YOP1025 » 17 Sep 2008, 20:08
par hort » 18 Sep 2008, 17:32
par Lumpy » 18 Sep 2008, 17:35
hort a écrit:Assez d'accord avec toi Ludo, c'est ce que j'me suis dit en le lisant : "bah merde... pour un article sur les 2 plus grosses sorties rock de l'année, ils se sont pas fait chier"
Enfin, une photo d'angus (même archie connue) dans un magasine grand public, ça fait toujours plaisir... Non ?
par mattsg » 26 Sep 2008, 01:31
YOP1025 a écrit:rien d'autres ne sont passés devant vos yeux aiguisés ?
par Riffraff » 26 Sep 2008, 20:23
par FANACDC » 26 Sep 2008, 20:47
par Heatseeker » 27 Sep 2008, 00:41
If AC/DC's Black Ice performs, it could have serious long-term consequences for the pre-eminent position of iTunes as a music retailer.
If the album is the year's biggest seller - and with U2 not releasing No Line On The Horizon until January, there's only Coldplay's Viva La Vida in the way - then many acts already harbouring grievances against iTunes might well be persuaded to join AC/DC on the other side of the digital divide.
The Australian no-nonsense rockers refuse to allow their work to be sold on iTunes because they argue that their albums are complete pieces of work that represent them at a certain time and place in their musical career and are not just a bunch of individual downloads to be cherry-picked by fans.
Because iTunes steadfastly refuses to "lock" any album (the vast majority of songs on the site can be downloaded as individual tracks), AC/DC don't just boycott the online store, but are now active anti-iTunes evangelists.
"We don't make singles, we make albums," says guitarist Angus Young. "Way back in the Seventies, we drew these figures on the back of an envelope for our record company.
"We showed them how much they earned from us if we sold one million singles and how much they earned if we sold one million albums. The difference was staggering.
"That was to get them off our back because we only very grudgingly release singles. Our real reason is that we honestly believe the songs on any of our albums belong together.
"If we were on iTunes, we know a certain percentage of people would only download two or three songs from the album - and we don't think that represents us musically."
Young happily points out that projected sales figures show that AC/DC's 1980 Back in Black album will soon leapfrog Michael Jackson's Thriller album to become the biggest-selling album ever - and it won't be available on iTunes.
Though the Beatles' back catalogue is still not available on iTunes, this will be the first time in the music store's short history that it will be deprived of a major current release.
For good or ill, iTunes has changed how we consume music.
Though it rightly boasts that it helped the music industry recover ground from the damage done by the illegal downloading pandemic, iTunes makes it easier for us to pay only for the hit singles, not the 10 other "filler" tracks on an album.
Katy Perry has sold 2.2 million downloads of I Kissed a Girl on iTunes, but only 282,000 copies of her album. That sort of singles-to-album sales ratio simply never happened pre-iTunes.
Guy Garvey, the lead singer of this year's Mercury Music prize winners, Elbow, says: "iTunes is responsible for the death of the album."
As with AC/DC, he calls for the site to offer artists the choice of "locking" their album. "The album is a piece of work that we laboured over and not a bunch of downloads flung together to satisfy a contractual demand."
There are also financial reasons for opposing iTunes. With no packaging or distribution costs, royalty rates should be higher, says Kid Rock. This is the reason he won't allow his work on iTunes.
Angus Young says that two big name rock acts are now rethinking their presence on iTunes because the singles vs albums sales equation simply isn't working for them.
"I met these bands and they were asking me all about not being on iTunes," he says. "I told them that since iTunes came into existence, we've actually increased our back catalogue sales without being on the site, and at the time we were sternly warned by our management team and our record label that the complete opposite would be the case."
Young wouldn't confirm the names of those acts. But recently, the Wall Street Journal published sales figures that showed, of the six biggest back catalogue selling acts in the world, the Rolling Stones, despite being available on iTunes, limped into sixth place, with the top two acts on the list (the Beatles and AC/DC) being iTunes refuseniks.
The release of Black Ice will be a major blow for iTunes' claim to be the world's biggest music retailer, but three days before that October 20 release date, a more significant threat to the company takes place when the mobile phone company Nokia begin to sell their new "Comes With Music" phone in UK stores.
The much-hyped Apple iPhone was supposed to shore up iTunes sales (which it did) but Nokia are making a bold raid on Apple's music download market.
The "Comes With Music" phone will allow users to download all the music they want for a fixed monthly subscription fee (the price of which is yet to be revealed by the company).
Each of the four major music labels have already agreed to make their entire catalogues available for the "Comes With Music" phone.
The phone requires an initial 12-month contract, but this does not need to be renewed.
In the future we will all receive our music under a subscription model. Apple have advanced plans to release an "iTunes Unlimited", all-you-can-eat subscription service, but Nokia have stolen a march on the normally latest-greatest-most-up-to-datest company.
For Apple, "when troubles come, they come not in single spies" but as a Nokia music phone blasting out Whole Lotta Rosie.
par Vincent1972 » 27 Sep 2008, 01:35
par Vincent1972 » 27 Sep 2008, 02:21
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