Want to get people to start buying whole albums instead of just one or two songs off the albums?
1) Start making good music
2) Start spending time on more than just one song on the album, calculating that perfect ‘hit’
3) Seriously start making good music and dump those people you call ‘artists’
Eh, I doubt they will follow any of this. The record companies will continue to bitch while continuing to shovel out the same old shit that will continue to be bought by the same people who listen to the radio and try to fit in. But since only one song is actually worth anything (relatively speaking) they will only want to purchase that one song. Its simple logic that greedy execs either can’t understand or don’t care about. I assume some fall under one category and some the other.
I blame people.
If you made a certain product, you would probably tailor it to the people who you wanted to buy it. Until alot more people decide to not buy into this crap, we can only blame ourselves.
Yeah, and let the artists own their own music too. This contractual “work for hire” shit has got to go.
Also, some bands just do shitty on big labels. Take Bad Religion as an example, their older shit was amazing until they went on a huge label, then they sucked it up until they moved off one.
There must be something about the restrictions they put on artists as well (time/money).