I think we are missing the point here. Chinese Democracy has broken all album streaming records on Myspace. Over three million songs played off of the album, that equates to 25 listens a seconds according to an NME source page.
I wouldn't be to concerned about the trend above, there are to many variables concerning the reasoning to say it means one thing or another. One in particular being that a lot of Guns'N'Roses fans have long since owned all but three songs through leaks and demos.
The page has over fifty million streams since it inception, that is were the real statement lies. I love to a graph comparing that to other industry leading artists.
jgarbis
· 1 year ago
While their competitors have continued to improve the sound quality of their posted music, Myspace has remained static at this 96Kbps threshold. The music just sounds terrible. I tried to listen to Chinese Democracy after hearing the buzz about it, but the white noise at the beginning of Track 1 coupled with Myspace's lack of decent sound quality drove me away before I could give the album a real chance.
That - and the fact that GNR without slash feels like a bad underfunded remake.
music videos
· 1 year ago
I guess it's because people don't like those specific albums, doubt it's an indication of something.
We offer the option of listening the full album with one-click or listening to individual tracks in a playlist. And our users demonstrate more of a commitment to listening longer.
juepucta
· 1 year ago
There's people, like Apollo Media, that know how to do the album stream right (with the added possibility of buying the mp3s and/or CD) without dealing with the utter bs that is to have to hit play a dozen times. The new Sammy Hagar suffers from the same retarded interface. You have it the background while using the PC for something else and when the song ends and another one does not start, you don't realize and ruining the flow of the recording.
and the average mccartney fan is much older and less likely to be online than the average gnr fan. and gnr had what, ten years of promotion and build up hyping it. the fireman kind of came out of nowhere.
TimBurkey
· 1 year ago
As a music fan, I would have to submit that neither of these albums are very exciting, at least on the first listen. I didn't make it through the first song on Chinese Democracy even though I LOVE Appetite for Destruction.
I'm working on making it through McCartney's project because I really WANT to like it, but it definitely didn't GRAB me as a listener. I love The Beatles and his solo stuff; maybe I'll like this after a few listens, but that's not really what a MySpace album preview is for.
I think in both artist's case, they would have been better-suited to just release a few preview "singles" on their pages and create anticipation for the records.
TimBurkey
· 1 year ago
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Marie-The Snake Charmers
· 1 year ago
Also, it's usually a big pain to listen to an album all the way through online. Just as computers screens are not conducive to reading novels, album listening suffers the same fate.
So it's hard to tell how much people think an album sucks and how much they really just don't want to invest the time.
More data with comparisons to different delivery options needed.
Gordon
· 1 year ago
It could also be that most of the people who are active online and care about Chinese Democracy have already downloaded the leak (available since yesterday) and have the whole album on their iPods already.
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Chinese Democracy has broken all album streaming records on Myspace. Over three million songs played off of the album, that equates to 25 listens a seconds according to an NME source page.
I wouldn't be to concerned about the trend above, there are to many variables concerning the reasoning to say it means one thing or another. One in particular being that a lot of Guns'N'Roses fans have long since owned all but three songs through leaks and demos.
The page has over fifty million streams since it inception, that is were the real statement lies. I love to a graph comparing that to other industry leading artists.
That - and the fact that GNR without slash feels like a bad underfunded remake.
We offer the option of listening the full album with one-click or listening to individual tracks in a playlist. And our users demonstrate more of a commitment to listening longer.
I'm working on making it through McCartney's project because I really WANT to like it, but it definitely didn't GRAB me as a listener. I love The Beatles and his solo stuff; maybe I'll like this after a few listens, but that's not really what a MySpace album preview is for.
I think in both artist's case, they would have been better-suited to just release a few preview "singles" on their pages and create anticipation for the records.
So it's hard to tell how much people think an album sucks and how much they really just don't want to invest the time.
More data with comparisons to different delivery options needed.