Why Did Record Company RCA Make Adam Lambert’s Album ‘Trespassing’ Available To Steal?
EVERYONE IS TELLING ME ‘But Albums Always Leak’. But how many are leaked by the record company that owns said record?
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Because they are fucking useless and have no idea what is what in the 21st century. So RCA ‘streamed’ the new album in gay hating Indonesia, fans copied the stream so they could all hear it 7 days early and now the album is all over the place for free…..And seriously, it is everywhere.
RCA tweeted it was a special event exclusively for Adam fans….So, of course it is up everywhere. Many fans seem to think this is all OK. As threy have paid for the album it is fine for them to download the illegaly gained version. The logic seems that as they bought a car they can know steal any car they want, as they paid for one once.
But sales have gone up. Will be very interesting to see if they remain high, as in I really fucking hope so and hope shit ass RCA have not screwed this up. Becuase it is totally obvious he had no idea the album was out to hear already.
DON’T TRY TO SAY I AM MAKING IT WORSE BY POSTING THIS STORY EITHER FANS. YOU GUYS SHARED THE LINK AND HAVE HAPPILY SHOT YOUR LOADS ON TWITTER SO THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD KNOWS THE ALBUM IS OUT THERE TO STEAL, IF THAT IS YOUR WAY. AND THE RECORD COMPANY DID SANCTION IT. TALK TO THEM
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I’m not sure how I feel about this whole thing – I have downloaded the ripped version but havent listened to it yet – I’m THAT torn about it. But I did cave and listen to one track because I’d been so curious about it since hearing the snippet – Runnin and OMG! I was not disappointed. That track is phenomenal!! BUT straight away I noticed the audio quality is not that great. Not surprising since it’s ripped from a stream and then compressed. So maybe that’s a factor. I don’t know. I would want a quality mp3 version if I liked a song. Just a thought.
But I do want to question why so many people keep banging on about how Adam’s fans will be buying it anyway so where’s the harm? Ahem. Are you, his FANS, convinced no-one other than Adam’s current fans will be interested in this album? That’s a very sad perspective. Poor Adam.
so you have no idea on the treatment and laws against gay people in indonesia? they are easy to find
So would you be making this post if this was release day and the CD was appearing on torrents all over the place? I think not, because we all know that happens and there’s nothing we can really do to stop it because you can’t smite them all. If someone wants a copy illegally, they will get it illegally. End of. So why the drama over this? It blows for Adam it leaked out early, it really does, but his own record company did it as you said. You’re not telling me Sony reps are naive enough to think this wouldn’t happen? They’re idiots for doing it, but the fact is, they did it. The bottom line: all the same people that would buy it will buy it, all the people that never intended to, won’t.
And your car analogy? No, you can’t steal another car because you bought one, but a high end dealer will probably let you test drive one for a week or so before you make your purchase.
well, it sure blows that his record company enabled the leak, and is also sad to think that people may review ot buy based on that hearing when the quality is second rate, at best. the drama, also, is that the album is all over youtube, and the quality is poor. i am telling you that sony reps blew this one, big time, yes ma’am, I am. thanks for commenting caley too
steve
As someone on the inside of the biz, it’s not RCA. No label has embraced technology yet. They try to fight it but they use the same tactics as the “war on drugs” and we all know how well that’s working. Labels do things like send out early copies of albums to the “press” not always checking credentials. They stream albums. They ship product early. They also have people on their payrolls that aren’t always on the up and up so this album, like almost every other record out there, go leaked. What would be nice is come up with new ways to sell digital tracks, make them accessible to all of an artist’s fans and also make sure the artists themselves see the bigger slice of the revenue from said sales.
As far as the car theft analogy? It is the “hard copy” of the album that will count chart numbers. Most people who were going to buy multiple copies have already done so. If anything it’s stealing a real POS car and then junking it when the nice shiny new one comes off the assembly line. Yes, some will hold on to pirated copies and not buy the real album. These folks may also buy tickets to shows which put a larger percentage of revenue in an artist’s pocket. At the end of the day everyone’s sale figures are affected by the availability of digital collateral. Look at the drop in Madonna’s sales on her new album. Maybe the album didn’t leak but you know a whole lotta people are listening to it who didn’t pay for it. What’s the answer? Well the labels need to hire some really good marketing people and some uber nerdy technogeeks and embrace progress. We aren’t going backwards anytime soon.
Great points thanks for commenting. i think the whole concept of release dates are last century. you are so right, the companies need to realize new ways of getting money from digital downloads, but also be proactive in making the music available to buy in every format and way as soon as possible.
“The logic seems that as they bought a car they can know steal any car they want, as they paid for one once.”
I have to ask how this reasoning works?
If you buy a car, and then go and steal another car, you have two cars. If you pre order an album, then download some mp3s so you can hear the album early, you still only have one copy of the album.
The only way, when I apply my obviously warped version of logic, those two examples are comparable is if you could pay for early release mp3s and people chose to download illegal copies instead of actually paying for the privilege. Otherwise no one is losing money because the fans are still buying the one or more copies of the album they pre ordered, and they would not have bought an extra copy between now and the 15th if they did not get to listen to the album early.
And I’m pretty sure that anyone who downloads and never pays for it would not have bought the album at all even if it wasn’t available for download at this stage, because it would still have been available for free the day it goes on sale, like mostly everything is these days.
It’s arguable if this will help sales, of course, but I really don’t see how it’s likely to harm sales horrendously.