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Rap About Nothing: Hip Hop Chat Thread
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said he's excited for Roddy album and Kendrick album. lightweight confirmed he got something coming.
Big Sean been teasing a drop for 2024 so Kendrick right on schedule basically
Big Sean's timing
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I've been playing this alot recently
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Disagree blockchain is the answer. No one wants to use crypto to get music and then have to figure out how to play it. Streaming will have its comeuppance but vinyl sales booming year after year says people want a physical product if they’re going to “own” something. Blockchain is just more hoops to just through that no one wants to be bothered with
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My favorite album from Jay
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There’s no answer, it’s over. It’s too late. The generation that didn’t mind buying albums and appreciated a whole album is dying off. The 30 and under crowd isn’t buying an album or even ****in listening to a whole album. Whenever I talked to someone young, they MIGHT play an entire album once. Then they keep their favorite 3-6 songs and move on. Streaming gutted movies and it’s now gutted music. Along with social media. Everyone wants generic corny songs to go viral. SAY DRAKE.
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I don't think music is over at all. Step outside hip-hop and pop music aimed at the masses and there's plenty of artists selling physical media and touring, making good livings with strong fanbases even under 30. It's when you start looking at the mass produced trash that has nothing behind it that streaming and radio play have always had a much greater impact pushing to the mainstream crowd that you find more of the rot.
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I’m talking about physical albums and purchasing albums in general. I’m well aware of the resurgence of vinyl but those numbers aren’t as big as people think. Once you get out of the top 25 or 30, albums don’t even break 20K a week and most of those are streams.
I know merch does well and touring will be there but even some of those venues are getting cancelled for low sales. Also the ****in prices have skyrocketed for concerts, **** is wild.
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1.4B in vinyl sales and 537M in CD sales in 2023 says it's a pretty big pie still. Most artists have been making 90% of their revenue from touring over the past decade anyway. The shift to merch and touring happened a long time ago.
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Streaming-Driven Recorded Music Sales Jump 8% To $17.1B In 2023, RIAA Says; Vinyl Up By Double Digits Again
Sales of recorded music in the U.S. grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2023, with streams accounting for a dominant 84% and vinyl up by double digits again
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Just saw a IG post about Lil Cease’s police statement after Biggies murder, stating it should be looked into. There was no audio of his statement included, but the slide contained pics of BIG in his casket. First time ever seeing that. 
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1.4B in vinyl sales and 537M in CD sales in 2023 says it's a pretty big pie still. Most artists have been making 90% of their revenue from touring over the past decade anyway. The shift to merch and touring happened a long time ago.
Streaming-Driven Recorded Music Sales Jump 8% To $17.1B In 2023, RIAA Says; Vinyl Up By Double Digits Again
Sales of recorded music in the U.S. grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2023, with streams accounting for a dominant 84% and vinyl up by double digits again
physical media sales kinda weird, botters checking out clips of vinyls to resell and a lot of them ****s collecting dust cuz they can’t get them off
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Just saw a IG post about Lil Cease’s police statement after Biggies murder, stating it should be looked into. There was no audio of his statement included, but the slide contained pics of BIG in his casket. First time ever seeing that.
What should be looked into?
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They may be, but they missed the boat and don’t understand it’s always been a 3-5 year wait for records to significantly appreciate in value. The real change in those numbers is due to more plants opening. There was a 7-8 year period where records were routinely announced 6 mos from release cause of the wait to get anything pressed in the U.S.
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The statement Lil Cease made to the police after BIG was shot. There were no details about the statement included in the post. I start to post it but the casket pics gave me a sad feeling.
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Ray J saying Pharrell told him this shoulda been his next single after Wait A Minute and he ain't listen.
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1.4B in vinyl sales and 537M in CD sales in 2023 says it's a pretty big pie still. Most artists have been making 90% of their revenue from touring over the past decade anyway. The shift to merch and touring happened a long time ago.
Streaming-Driven Recorded Music Sales Jump 8% To $17.1B In 2023, RIAA Says; Vinyl Up By Double Digits Again
Sales of recorded music in the U.S. grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2023, with streams accounting for a dominant 84% and vinyl up by double digits again
Music industry tracking company Luminate looked at the sales datafor vinyl records in 2023 and found that Taylor Swift accounted for 1 out of every 15 vinyl sales in the U.S. In fact, according to Billboard, “Swift’s vinyl sales were so big in 2023 that she sold more than the next seven-biggest-selling acts on vinyl last year. Lana Del Rey was the year’s No. 2-seller on vinyl, with 646,000 copies sold, followed by Tyler, the Creator (552,000), Travis Scott (474,000), Olivia Rodrigo (408,000), Kendrick Lamar (382,000), Metallica (378,000) and The Beatles (373,000). (To round out the top 10-selling acts on vinyl last year, Fleetwood Mac was No. 9, with 357,000, and Mac Miller was No. 10 with 354,000.)”
Swift tallied almost 3.5 million vinyl album sales for the year, which is about 7% of the grand total. Not only that, “The top-selling vinyl album of 2023 was Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) with 1.014 million sold. That marks the largest yearly sales total for a vinyl album, and the first vinyl set to sell a million in a calendar year, since Luminate began tracking sales in 1991
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Still means vinyl was up 1% last year and up 1000% over the past decade while supply has been constrained. It makes perfect sense too. Vinyl is being sold at shows where artists make 90% of their income and is a staple of most merch stands today. Music isn't dead, it's just more niche and live (which is what kills a lot of rappers who can't perform worth a damn live).
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