Record Labels No Longer Interested In Listening To The Kids - Idolator Comments

Record Labels No Longer Interested In Listening To The Kids

AcidReign — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:56:24 EST

.....As an old fart who does go to the CD store and almost never downloads, I'd say nay to Simon and Duff. I might pay to watch Britney Spears in a skimpy leather suit, as the lead singer in Ratt, though!

AcidReign

Record Labels No Longer Interested In Listening To The Kids

Chris Molanphy — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:11:23 EST

But the world is run by "a bunch of barely legal High School Musical expats." Them, and the geezers. Gen-Xers like myself are off in cyberspace.

As I believe I said here a coupla weeks ago, the big industry theme of the year is that the only people still buying CDs are the very young and the very old. There's now a massive hole in the demographic spectrum - from about age 14 all the way to age 45 - of people who don't set foot in record stores, ever.

Older consumers may be a bigger market in aggregate, but they'll never be as passionate or devoted to current music as teens or 20somethings. This is the inherent contradiction - as the article indicates - in staking one's balance sheet on the AARP.

Tellin' ya, though, there's got to be a blockbuster CD that would unite the tweens and the farts. Maybe a Duets album between Paul Simon and Hayley Duff?

Chris Molanphy

Record Labels No Longer Interested In Listening To The Kids

mediaeater — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:18:01 EST

the best part of that story was the ageing hipsters website it mentioned.

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