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s yourself from tim lineingham answer earache is not really interested in how pop stars are performing in the charts but the news of rihanna selling a paltry 9 000 albums to claim the top spot in the uk chart last week the lowest ever since records began sent a ripple of concern around the music biz generally here frowns all round people were quick to comment that its the traditional mid summer slump because people are on the beach or out and about on holidays so not bothering with buying records which is true and sales do dip mid summer every year anyway but this was more dramatic than before also true is the fact that the uk is currently in recession and spare money is hard to come by both decent explanations the way that fans consume music is also changing although cd sales and legal itunes downloads count towards the official uk chart streaming music services like spotify do not yet legal streams have their own brand new uk streaming chart but that is not widely circulated outside the biz illegal torrents or audio which is file shared of course does not count towards the uk official top 40 chart even though billions of songs are consumed that way daily because they are not paid for and not trackable yet youtube views don t count to any chart either prior to 91 1994 the official top 40 charts were compiled the old school way by each record store tallying by hand their over the counter sales each week and handing the scores over to the chart company it was a simple task subject to human whims so every week the charts were skewed by enthusiastic record store owners passing on false and inflated sales numbers of their favourite artists usually white middle class indie rock however in 1991 us and 94 uk the chart system was revolutionised because barcode reading at the checkout came in this soundscan era democratised the charts finally giving a true ish reflection of national music tastes and its safe to say that it totally rocked the biz suddenly and quite unexpectedly albums of rap artists began to dominate the upper echelons of the us top 40 they were selling beforehand but just not even counted before under the old often fraudulent system in the uk around the same time a nationwide survey was carried out to investigate what is the best selling music in this country the surprising result was that a form of punjabi traditional folk dance music known as bhangra is the biggest selling music here selling enormous amounts of cds via small indian retail stores around the country almost none are sold in the traditional record shops so the sound rarely dents the uk top 40 i m sure the artists involved aren t too concerned about it many types of music exist under the radar of the official chart compilers rave and grime had been massively popular in the clubs and on the streets here for decades but only in recent years have major labels drawn upon the large fanbase of artists like dizzee rascal to release his records and hence end up topping the charts his hit bonkers was even aired during the london olympics opening ceremony metal is traditionally a very under represented genre in the uk top 40 chart relying on the sheer numbers of fans who buy on week one to sporadically chart sadly those albums then promptly drop out of the chart next week because the genre receives very little or no mainstream radio or tv to support it it s been this way for ever until last year in germany where the chart compilers made a subtle change to the rules whereby the overall revenue of an album counts to its chart tally rather than purely the number of units shifted this was made to counter the unfair advantage of major labels who could routinely discount pop albums by huge amounts often selling for equivalent of 3 and so gain unfair leverage at stores and gain sales advantage from that metal fans in germany have traditionally bought high value items special editions and limited box sets by their favourite bands often direct from mailorders or direct from the labels low in units but high in value and due to the rule change the income from those sales now counts towards the chart tally giving a welcome boost to the chart prospects of metal bands the great benefit was that was that big selling metal acts now tend to place higher in the german charts than ever before century media pulled off a miracle with it s impeccable marketing campain to secure in flames sounds of a playground fading the bands and label s first ever number 1 chart placing in german national charts where previously they had only graced top 10 as far as earache is concerned we are gearing up for rival sons head down next month and we fully expect it to chart in 5 countries across eu but personally its the sales of the album over time which interests me most because i m too aware that chart positions are a purely artificial and fading concept in the coming era of streams and youtube view counts you could even argue that merch sales and concert ticket sales are more important to a bands long term career than a one shot chart number that only exists for 7 days anyway posted by digby at 2 08 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday may 21 2012 rise of the digital music database bootlegger scam copyright troll legal scammers question have you read the news about nuclear blast suing 80 illegal down loaders of all shall perish tracks in the courts for 150 000 each without the band s permission i know earache gives away some albums for free so what is your take on this from dave buckingham dbucks666 gmail com answer yes this story has been breaking on news sites for a while and is actually quite shocking to me something very sinister is going on because this so called owner the one bringing the case against the 80 fans is a company called world digital rights inc based out of panama of all places my guess is it s a new breed of opportunistic digital rights troll company operating a shakedown of fans on a grand scale nuclear blast claims to have not given any rights to this company which i believe but some of these copyright troll type companies make heavyweight legal claims using the most threadbare of rights either way its shady and murky and stinks quick history lesson the rise of digital music being consumed as files was popularised around the turn of the millennium by napster a site which operated without permission from the labels and was closed down for it it s fair to say the whole paradigm shift from cd to downloaded files which napster pioneered caught the record labels both major and indie off guard luckily within a few years some of the world s biggest tech companies had filled the void with legit music services and these do actually pay all parties artist label owner etc properly emusic com was first to offer fans a legitimate download site it only carries indie labels catalog including earache s then in 2003 apple launched the first comprehensive legal music download site itunes music store this boasted the entire catalog of all the major and indie labels fans flocked to it in their millions driven by the must have gadget of the era the ubiquitous ipod by 2010 itunes had become the world s biggest grossing record store it dwarfs any bricks and mortar chain you care to mention serious money is now earned by record labels both major and indie from the sales of such legit files in the uk digital revenues clocked in at over 50 of label revenue for 2011 overtaking physical sales revenues all this happened in an 8 year span in 2009 spotify joined the fray with a radical free premium music streaming model now boasting 3 million paying subscribers spotify is also earning labels significant income but nothing like itunes yet plus many of the world s biggest tech firms such as nokia google and microsoft launched legitimate music services with millions of tracks available to buy in recent months the google owned youtube finally after years of denial acknowledged and legitimised the several tens of million music files it was streaming to fans on a daily basis monetising them with paid for pre roll advertising this has generated a windfall of unexpected income for the labels from their catalogs of recordings and video clips which is long overdue if you ask me there is one snag in this scenario which is the matter of sorting out who gets paid the money earned from all these new audio streams views and downloads which are occuring in their billions labels claim their catalogue by supplying each platform a meta data file which is basically a database list confirming it s ownership of tracks as well as relevant information like artist song name and info like the isrc code for each track this is separate from the actual music audio files it simply contains the information about the music in our case the meta data file weighs in at a mere 100k in size in the digital sales era this tiny xml file has become our most prized asset of all because its how we get paid back when physical cd s dominated payments from distributors would be based on each album s barcode or catalogue number in earache s case that s around 450 albums a large but not un manageable number of products with the rise of itunes individual tracks can be purchased aswell so if you assume 10 tracks per album and 50 odd itunes stores reporting monthly this results in a possible quarter of a million product lines incoming every month when you add in millions of spotify streams as well as sales from other platforms even a medium sized label can be flooded with tens of millions of lines of sales data per month database management is a prime concern of labels these days many indies don t posses the tech skills to manage this flood of incoming sales data booming digital music sales has created the need for a new type of middleman service these legit services like c i or ingrooves carefully store and control database warehouses of music meta data on behalf of labels with their permission there s also a dark underbelly of shady companies wielding meta data either with no rights whatsover or with threadbare licenses achieved by ill gotten means earache has recently been victim of companies who we have never even heard of trying to exploit the loopholes in youtube s fact checking system by falsely scamming and claiming ownership of earache s own material on the right are examples of decapitated and deicide songs being claimed by music publishing rights collection society and internet anti piracy apcm mexico both grandiosely named entities no doubt designed to instill an air of authenticity to the claim both are blatantly false digital scammers who quietly withdrew the claims when challenged by us music publishing rights collection society is a blatant scam operation it even has a facebook page right where it gleefully states they take pleasure from monetising other people s music videos videos they have no business in in the first place this is the new face of rampant piracy in the youtube era pirates are so audacious nowadays as well as uoploading they actually try to claim the income from other people s works aswell earache does still give away a few selected albums away for free fans should head to earache com free for full 320 mp3 albums by wormrot grind savage messiah modern day heavy metal and gama bomb thrash posted by digby at 2 50 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday may 16 2012 morbid angel various pressings on vinyl explained question from mark mericksn gmail com hey so back in 2002 you guys reissued morbid angel s altars of madness on vinyl despite not having a turntable at the time and being something of a collector at the time i decided to snag one when i came across it in the store while they were still around fast forward ten years and i finally got my first record player i started back on the other collector type vinyls i had acquired in the intervening period like relapse s atheist collection boxset i was blown away at how brilliant they sounded i eagerly waited for piece of time to finish so i could finally unseal my transparent blue pressing of altars and finally experience it in its original form well i m sure you know where this one is going honestly it sounds like garbage it s full of scratches and pops and just sounds brittle and harsh none of that characteristic analog warmth no phrases popping out that got lost in translation on their journey to digital in the cd pressings or anything in fact it sounds markedly worse than the three or four different cd issues i own so i ask you my dear earache representative what gives was the original pressing just truly awful did you guys royally screw the re pressing on this edition and are the recent vinyl reissues of the other morbid classics subject to this same treatment i d love to buy them all to support one of my favorite and let s be honest probably one of the single most important bands in death metal history bands of all time but that seems a rather tall order after the 2002 edition has left such a foul taste regards mark answer well first of all thank you for purchasing the vinyl back in 2002 on blue wax but you were mistaken to think you could hear the album in its original form maybe this blog is too truthful for its own good but the reality is buying a vinyl is not a ticket for time travel back to the 1980s we ve sold many thousands but you re the first person to complain to us about the quality sorry to hear it s not to your liking but it was never advertised as the definitive audiophile edition or from original analogue tapes what you have is a usa pressing made by earache s office licensee stateside and was part of a series of approx 10 early earache albums re issued in 2002 and the motivation was simply to make them available again on wax with nice big artwork nothing more trends in vinyl come and go shaped vinyl was all the rage in the 80s picture discs abounded whereas coloured wax was a rarity you could have any colour so long as it s black nowadays coloured wax swirls and splatter are everywhere but the fastest growing trend is the audiophile analogue crowd who favour supreme audio quality over gimmicks our recent 2012 napalm death fdr full dynamic range editions of scum and feto were made from original era analogue tapes and are audiophile editions with all dynamics preserved and have been so well received we ll do more of those soon and advertise them as such to be honest the explanation for any unsavoury sound on the 2002 editions was simply because the loudness war was in full swing in that period see pics above of the actual original metalwork mother stamper used to press the carcass mosh 18 2002 uk edition and the info for mosh 21 entombed uk 2002 edition at the plant damont audio on a related subject earache just announced pre orders for the two iron monkey albums which will be pressed for the first time ever on vinyl incidentally all proceeds g...