I have few thoughts here.
Indian's are by far very poor CD buyers. And only few agents were resposible for the CD sales as such in India and Rahman played a huge role in that. Now the market is very disoriented. None of them are able to tackle piracy and the only way is the surrender to the trend and release MP3s. This is actually like going back to stone age. If you look at the data (depending on the source), you might note that globally CD sales have fallen by as much as 15% (adjustments to recession included). India for the size that we are and that too with the world's largest film factory, with most number of songs, sells lesser CDs than denmark,sweden,norway. Basically countries smaller than most indian states. This is because, we like music and want it fast and we won't mind downloading from anywhere. Lets check it ourselves. Those who claim they have the entire collection of rahman's works, do we have all original ACDs or cassesetes as applicable? secondly, The whole listening fashion is changed to iPODs. So even if we buy a disc, we would most probably rip it and put them into an iPOD or make it part of a compilation MP3 disc. Thirdly, people are not so concious of 'fidilety'. Many actually don;t care about it, as long as the tracks sound loud! ( refer loudness war). And what they need, they get it from Mp3s. Lastly, a delay of indian release of some big ticket films is suicidal. Everyone had watched slumdog and everyone had the tracks when T-series decided to release. Same for couples retreat. Theres a huge opportunity loss here. If people as a market were concious of taste, then CD sales won't drop and Worldspace radio wont go bankrupt to shut shop. So...start buying CDs. Not only Rahman's. All the music you like. To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:27:33 +0530 Subject: Re: [arr] Re: Blue Telugu You got one part of the answer right, not the other part. The reason is definitely financial but it's financial feasibility and not financial challenges. The age of the CD is over. A market like India was never even there. The advent of unrestrained mp3 sharing on the internet and the rise of the CD as a medium coincided in India. Let me give you a statistic, shocking but true. How many CDs of Slumdog Millionaire do you think T-Series sold in India? All of 60,000. And T-Series printed Over 500,000 copies. For all the chest beating that we do on forums like this, the reality of the day is that nobody pays for music anymore. Who in his right mind would want to invest in manufacturing and distributing CDs upfront in such a market scenario? How many CDs of the Telugu dubbed version of a massive flop do you think will sell? 1000? Can you blame T-Series for not releasing the CD? Music labels make money only off mobile ringtones and ringback tones and TV and FM licensing in today's world. Whatever CDs they do release is purely promotional expenditure, it generates paltry, if any, income for them. There is minimal upfront cost in distributing mp3s through the likes of Amazon. That is the route any sensible business would take. I would be thankful that T-Series is at least progressive enough to provide us with that option rather than not release anything at all. On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:10, Rivjot <[email protected]> wrote: It was up on amazon a while back, but will have to buy now, as CDs are not going to be available. Can somebody please answer why many of Rahman music are not releasing on CD? There are has been several instances in last few months.. makes me feel there are financial problems (how can there be financial problems associated with Rahman's music and how can money get into the way of music?). I am extremely confused and very eager to know the reason. Gops / Vijay, if possible, please give some explanation instead of just saying "no physical CD release" everytime. --- In [email protected], Gopal Srinivasan <catchg...@...> wrote: > > The soundtrack is available from > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002UDUU00/ref=dm_ty_alb > > There will be no physical CD release as things stand. > ------------------------------------ Are you searching for a reason, to be kind? <b> Explore, Experience, Enjoy A.R.Rahman - The Man, The Music, The Magic. Only at arrahmanfans.com - The definitive A.R.Rahman e-community. Homepage: http://www.arrahmanfans.com Admin: [email protected] To Subscribe: [email protected] To Unsubscribe: [email protected]! Groups Links _________________________________________________________________ Windows 7: Simplify what you do everyday. Find the right PC for you. http://windows.microsoft.com/shop
