To no one's surprise, music sales in 2010 fell again. Music sales had been falling for years, and this year was no exception. What's surprising is that the internet is no longer been blamed for it.
In the past, decline in music sales has been blamed on the internet. The reasoning is that young people who rather download music from the internet rather than go to a store and buy an album. This year, the music industry changed their tune.
They are finally waking up to the fact that digital sales of music are not to blame for decline of the industry. The reason I think for the decline is far simpler; it's just the poor music of today.
Take example the top song in Singapore in 2010. Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" spend the most time on the charts last year in Singapore and was ranked #1 in the year-end chart show on the Power 98 radio station. Now the chorus of the song goes like this;
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!
Caught in a bad romance
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!
Caught in a bad romance
Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah-ah!
Roma-roma-mamaa!
Ga-ga-ooh-la-la!
Want your bad romance
Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah-ah!
Roma-roma-mamaa!
Ga-ga-ooh-la-la!
Want your bad romance
That's it! That's the chorus of the top song in 2010. Nothing but "ohh", "la", "rah"! Now I have nothing against Laga Gaga but this is the top song of 2010?
That's why the music industry is in the toilet.
2 comments:
I'm with you on this one. We need to watch it or we're going to end up sounding like a couple of cranky old fogies. :) Rock on.
Better that than a hip youngster who likes a song with nothing but "ohh", "la", "rah" in its chorus!
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