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Dave Mathews Top Album - Napster Didn't Hurt!
The new Dave Mathews CD tops the charts in it's first week, making it the biggest debut for an album so far in 2001. And "I did It" has been freely available on Napster for almost a month: Explain that RIAA!
As a featured track on the home button of the Napster application, the single "I Did It" must have gotten a bajillion downloads, yet it still performed as expected on the market, topping charts at over 750,000 sales!
Just think, if they would have just left Napster alone, they would have probably over 25% of the 50,000,000 Napster users now spending $5 a month to use the service the way it was. Now with this digital rights management crap they're going to shove down your throat, who's going to pay? No one. And this Dave Mathews dilly shows at least one example that Napster sales would be additional revenue and wouldn't replace CD sales.
Time for some simple math: 50,000,000 * 0.25 = 12,500,000; $62,500,000 a month * 12 months = $750,000,000.
$750 MILLION dollars in _additional_ revenue, growing the music industry about 7% with one quick, easy move. Keeping consumers happy and making artists more money.
Oh well, that's how a controlling, technology growth stunting, monopolistic industry thinks, I guess.
User Comments
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dwaveh
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Date: March 9, 2001 @ 12:08 PM
bajillion.. thats a good word to use :) |
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Frawgster
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Date: March 9, 2001 @ 12:55 PM
Dave Matthews...ahhh...lovely tunes :-)
-Frawg- |
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cype
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Date: March 9, 2001 @ 1:04 PM
See napster isnt that bad after all... |
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tiamoamoremio
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Date: March 9, 2001 @ 1:09 PM
ciao |
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Anonymous
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Date: March 9, 2001 @ 1:26 PM
Dave Matthews is so damn boring. Maybe if I was 30 or older, I think they'd ROCK! |
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Anonymous
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Date: March 9, 2001 @ 1:34 PM
This post and the "simple math" is pointless. All we know is Napster sucks now.
Nobody can prove or disprove DMB sold less or more because of Napster since we don't have access to an alternate reality.
And it's not like DMB wasn't popular already... |
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doobybrain
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Date: March 9, 2001 @ 2:20 PM
gazillion is better. :D
[doobybrain] |
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doobybrain
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Date: March 9, 2001 @ 2:22 PM
the point was to show that major artists are not hurt by online sharing of music files. it doesnt matter if the band or group or person is famous or not. what matters is that this shows that the industry is still booming and still getting much revenue even though they are saying that they are not due to the sharing programs that are out.
DMB rocks your house y0!
[doobybrain] |
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Anonymous
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Date: March 9, 2001 @ 8:21 PM
Even though Napster's future is bleak, The RIAA is still like a wining old bitch, complaining about everything, the dave mathews's band's new CD is PROOF that Napster and all those other file sharing program ARENT hurting, and are probably HELPING!!!!!
RIAA, get it through your head, there will always be underground trade through email and stuff, if you sue EVERY file sharing service, which isnt likely.
Mr. GooFY
PS RIAA BLOWS!!!!!!
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Anonymous
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Date: March 10, 2001 @ 1:49 AM
The only proof here is that people have no taste. Scan the charts. 80% CRAPOLA. |
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Anonymous
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Date: March 10, 2001 @ 5:50 PM
other napster alternatives had it months before too. |
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Anonymous
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Date: March 10, 2001 @ 9:51 PM
YOU RIAA .. GOTOHELL ..
PROVE IF EVERYONE IN RIAA IS NOT USING NAPSTER ... BULLSHIT! ... maybe even you the RIAA CEO .. your daughter will mad at you if you shut napster down ... hey dude, you old men think only money ... fuck you |
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p0ppe
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Date: March 11, 2001 @ 11:11 AM
I'm not so sure about 25%... My guess is less than 10%. |
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Anonymous
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Date: March 12, 2001 @ 7:44 AM
RIAA sucks my big fat floppy dong, and they enjoy it. :) |
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andyt86
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Date: March 13, 2001 @ 6:30 PM
wooohooo
:)
Me and many of my friends hear of bands and download a couple songs on Napster to get a taste of their music. If we like it we buy the CD. If the RIAA tries to work with Napster, I think they can work something out.
Napster rocks! All the RIAA is about is sueing people...I am sick of them... |
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Anonymous
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Date: March 15, 2001 @ 4:03 PM
Pay for a CD? How 1990's. |
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Anonymous
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Date: March 15, 2001 @ 8:29 PM
this post is incredibly one sided, and makes no sense
simple math only works if you assume wrongly that 100% of the userbase would pay
dave mathews may have succeeded but what about the others it hurt.. think about this you communist assholes..
if you walk into an electronics store, grab a tv and try to walk out will "I'm sharing it not stealing it" prevent you from getting arrested..
no.. dumbasses stealing is stealing.. buy the damn cd.. not for the big companies but for the artists you claim to love while YOU rob them blind..
you are no better than the RIAA yourselves.. thieves every last one of you.
napster does hurt artists...
think about the number of cd's not purchased because of your file stealing services.. really think about it for a second... true music fans wouldn't starve the artists further.. you all are just a bunch of ignorant misinformed fools.. one day you might wake up and realize you are a pack of freekin thieves |
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soulhat
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Date: March 18, 2001 @ 12:40 PM
The music industry is going to HAVE to live with it. The music world has changed forever, right or wrong, they (RIAA) can't stop it, nobody can, people act as if there is actually something they can do about it.
it doesn't matter if they got napster, napster is just a program, it's just one vehicle, the roads are all still open.
maybe they'll start attaching ads to the actual songs, that would really be horrible. |
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Anonymous
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Date: March 19, 2001 @ 12:24 PM
Napster doesent hurt artists at all, there already overpaid, even Dave Matthews said it himself. You buy the CD if the band makes good music, napster was just a way to try it out before you wasted your money. |
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rob_n
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Date: March 19, 2001 @ 5:50 PM
Thats some great reasoning there, first off Napster does not hurt sales, crappy music does. Do you honestly think downloading a song is stealing? Second off Angelo's "statistics" are waaay off, no one would pay to use napster but the point trying to be made is that napster promostes music. Just like the radio, but the difference is radio can be controlled by the riaa so unless napster becomes the riaa's bitch it will continue to be seen as "stealing". Thanks for the name calling it adds a lot of credit to your opinion. |
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Anonymous
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Date: March 26, 2001 @ 12:40 AM
Well I'm 37 and... even at my "advanced" age I too find Dave Matthews to be incredibly boring. |
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Anonymous
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Date: March 28, 2001 @ 5:31 PM
DMBs sales would have been so much higher if they stuck with the kind of music theyve been playing since 93. Instead theyve gone much more mainstream adding electric guitar to the lineup. This speaks volumes of their popularity: a cd which most true Dave fans thinks is average at best sold to the expected numbers... |
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