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RTS Presents: Return of the Singles?
May. 13th, 2007 08:41 am[NOTE: I find that Sundays are perfect for me to do some introspective writing on various things, as a)neither Emm nor I have anywhere pressing to go right away, and b)I really need to more writing of some kind. I want to see if I can make it a habit of writing an RTS Presents article more often, perhaps once a week or every other week. We'll see...]
Okay, so dealing with the "Ubseshun" I'd posted about a few days ago, about the Yahoo Music News article questioning whether getting rid of singles back in the day was a good idea or not.
The article itself is an interesting diatribe about how the advent of downloading songs has pretty much replaced going out and buying the single in the music biz. First of all, I have to say that in all honesty, the change was so slow and deliberate that it wouldn't surprise me if not a lot of people would have immediately made that connection. Sure, some may have thought that with the ever-increasing presence of downloading sites and programs like iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, MusicMatch and so on, they could just snag the one song rather than going to the local record store and buying the whole album.
( My take on singles and music underneath the cut )
Okay, so dealing with the "Ubseshun" I'd posted about a few days ago, about the Yahoo Music News article questioning whether getting rid of singles back in the day was a good idea or not.
The article itself is an interesting diatribe about how the advent of downloading songs has pretty much replaced going out and buying the single in the music biz. First of all, I have to say that in all honesty, the change was so slow and deliberate that it wouldn't surprise me if not a lot of people would have immediately made that connection. Sure, some may have thought that with the ever-increasing presence of downloading sites and programs like iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, MusicMatch and so on, they could just snag the one song rather than going to the local record store and buying the whole album.
( My take on singles and music underneath the cut )
