It's because Indian music labels think that Scores are not marketable as songs. Which is true as well to some extend. I don't think a lot of of people will be buying BGM CDs like they would buy Songs CDS.
I think the only way is to release them together. usually a CD has 6 -7 songs, sometimes less and sometimes more.. but how difficult is it to include another 5 of 8 pieces of Scores in between the songs ? not only would people buy an album because of the songs, but also the BGMs will get promoted. If a disk is not enough use another CD, but instead of putting BGM as a separate disk, mix them together in two CDs there is another catch here though, our music reviewers will start reviewing each and every scores as if they are songs and once they find it is not as catchy as the songs, they may start rating low... Well, that is because indian listeners are more accustomed to hearing only songs in a movie. This well could be changed. Let's hope AR would take an initiative. On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Madhavan Rajan <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Seriously, motion picture soundtracks should consist not only songs but > scores as well. The problem is because of the underlying fact that in Indian > music industry songs are used to promote the movie even before the movie is > complete and thus there is no possibility of releasing scores with the > songs. Music labels have nothing to do in this because it's the movie > producers who own the rights of the score with the movie. I wonder why movie > producers are not interested to invest time and money in releasing motion > picture soundtrack after the movie release. Let's hope we get a solution > soon. > > And if anybody knows, please let us know if AR holds any rights for the > BGM's (at least for the recent films). If so, i think we can hope that there > is a possibility of releasing it under his KM label. The only movie, as far > as I know, that released the DVD with the background score was Taare Zameen > Par. It was a wonderful step by Aamir Khan but never know the reason why it > didn't carry forward. > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Vithur <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Inshallah ... Ameeen... >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Chord <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> With every Rahman music release, just release the songs as usual. Once >>> the movie hits, re-release either a single CD of just the BGMs or a double >>> CD of the same songs (with extra versus, versions, etc.) plus a CD of the >>> entire BGMs of the movie. Music companies will question profitability....but >>> you know, with Rahman as a brand name these days, there is enough of a >>> global market out there of music lovers and Rahman fans in my opinion who >>> would gladly lap up a CD of his BGMs. Ok, fine, just release a limited >>> edition......limited number of copies.....say, ten thousand of the double CD >>> with BGMs. Come on, there has got to be a way!!!! Or release the BGMs under >>> KM label...... Come on guys, help me out here! Is this just wishful, fantasy >>> thinking or is there even an ounce of a realistic possibility for this to >>> happen? >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> regards, >> Vithur >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Cheers, > Madhavan.R > Be a Music Fan; not a Music Pirate! > > -- ----------------------------------- http://ramblingsoul.com http://2ic.in
