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Originally Posted by hpg23
^ I think exactly the same. I think that the American industry should stop complaining about piracy and ask themselves why the heck does Britney release an album and it sells 800.000 in the whole world in the first week, and why a Japanese artist can do the same just releasing it in Japan. American music industry is losing its old power imo...
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Not only that, but Britney will not achieve number one of the world charts due to two Japanese groups. In her first week of release, Exile ballad best came out and sold around 950,000 copies. Now in her second week of release, Mr. Children comes out with an album that sells somewhere in the range of 700,000-800,000.
At some point music producers in America need to wake up and realize that the direction American music has been going in for quite some time now is a completely crappy one. A lot of it I think has to do with overall degradation in the quality of the music, lack of lyrical depth and lack of depth to most of the artists themselves. That is generalizing, but when you look at the whole of popular American music right now, I think its pretty accurate. I still love American music, but pretty much all of it comes from pre-2000.
