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Lady Gaga’s awful song Poker Face has just become the most downloaded song in the UK ever.
This is not an opinion blog and this will not be an opinion piece. I don’t like Lady Gaga but a lot of people do, obviously. Apparantly, this song, which I do not like has had 779,000 downloads in the past year.

If you’re interested, Kings of Leon also rate highly, with Sex On Fire being second most downloaded song in the UK ever. So I don’t doubt the Brits’ music taste because Kings of Leon rate very highly in my books aswell.

Meanwhile, the most downloaded song in Itunes history? Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey according to Edible Apple.

Michael Jackson’s Thriller is the best selling album of all time. This makes me think about the differences of downloading compared to the buying of albums.

Are artists who make best selling albums only becoming best sellers because the people of that generation didn’t download music?
Sure, Lady Gaga has a most downloaded single but how many people have bothered to download or even more rare, buy her whole album?

In the list of best sellers, ACDC, Meatloaf, Pink Floyd and The Eagles also rate highly. The latter 3 are favourites of mine so I do see why these albums have sold a lot. Plus, it’s all music of my parents generation which I, along with most teenagers, was brought up on.

It’s hard to say which accomplishment means more in this day and age, being a top download or being a top record seller. Consider it.

Tory.

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Today’s blog is about the reinvention of the music industry. Music is not dying completely, maybe CD’s are dying but music will always live on, just in different forms.

I have two links to post today. But I guess I could do it in two different posts on two different days just to add to my content a little.

I am currently having some issues working out jargon from one link I’ve found. Using abbreviations makes things very hard. Terms like RIAA and DRM are abbreviations a lot of people would have to google repeditively to find out about.

However, this is a good piece about the transformation of the music industry.

My apologies to anyone who is following this blog, I will try and make my posts more frequent. I am also learning a lot about the different ways I can make the blog more visually exciting aswell as add more exciting content.
I’ve just done a quick Google search for a couple of things I could write about and it seems that most of what comes up are blogs. Clearly the topic of music, piracy aswell as a little politics thrown in here or there is a popular topic with bloggers.

“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.” 
–Oscar Ameringer

Tory.

Imogen Heap’s new album Ellipse was released yesterday, meanwhile, an article in the Dominion Post on the 10th of August by Neil McCormick says that this woman is ‘Queen of the Internet’.

The general gist of this article is that Imogen Heap is very well known for her music on the internet and not on the radio or in the general public, unless of course you love indie music. This is new aged music, huge change in the music industry.

“Yeah, obviously we use vampires as a metaphor for something else, something deeper than just the supernatural. But there’s just something about the bloodsucking walking dead, that can say so much to people. There are really so many people trying to get control over you on a daily basis and steal your soul in some way, take a part of you…” – Gerard Way, My Chemical Romance.

Gerard is correct once again. Some people are real life vampires. But this is not the place to discuss this. This blog is going to be far less commentary from now on. More or less, for the rest of the course it will just be a link and a little about the link which is what we were asked to do originally. I will keep my little quotes, however, they will be at the end of each post so I can hide them. They will be my only personalisation. Problem being, I don’t yet know how to hide something in a post…

 Tory.