15% of music purchased is never listened to?

Bob-Dubery

Read about it at
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/16/why-buy-music-you-never-intend-to-play

ezietsman

I saw a report on a similar thing on the Steam platform, www.steampowered.com. Apparently something like 37% of all games bought on this platform, has not even been downloaded. Maybe its a case of "It is cheap / easy to get now, so I'll get it and play it later".

IceCreamMan

interesting question ..is it piracy to download music and never actually listen to it , is the pirate act the download or the listening ?

15% never listened to.... interesting eh

Squonk

Also depends who they asked?

I suppose the Average Joe who listens to Radio Highveld and doesn't have an opinion on music except that everything stopped in the 80's would up that percentage.

I don't buy anything that I won't listen to, I might never listen again but there will always be a listen.

Chocklit_Thunda

IceCreamMan wrote interesting question ..is it piracy to download music and never actually listen to it , is the pirate act the download or the listening ?

15% never listened to.... interesting eh

according to new research by ICM

I didn't know you were involved in this study ICM

IceCreamMan

Chocklit_Thunda wrote
IceCreamMan wrote interesting question ..is it piracy to download music and never actually listen to it , is the pirate act the download or the listening ?

15% never listened to.... interesting eh

according to new research by ICM
I didn't know you were involved in this study ICM

I have talents,,,some I am not knowledgeable of

Chabenda

Is this 15% referring specifically to the Parlotones? ???

doc-phil

This was true in my case back in the days when I was plundering the high seas, but now that iTunes takes a cut of my paycheck each month I make sure I dang well listen to what I buy.

Arno-West

IceCreamMan wrote interesting question ..is it piracy to download music and never actually listen to it , is the pirate act the download or the listening ?

15% never listened to.... interesting eh

....funny you should ask, because according to the article, you did the research......

Bob-Dubery

doc-phil wrote This was true in my case back in the days when I was plundering the high seas, but now that iTunes takes a cut of my paycheck each month I make sure I dang well listen to what I buy.

But they were talking about music that is BOUGHT. They are excluding streaming and things like torrents. So they assert that 15% of music that is BOUGHT is never listened to. Which is odd. I'm in the Squonk camp - I listen to it once because I've taken the trouble to make a choice to buy that music and I've shelled out the money. It might not get a repeat listen but it will get one (I try to take the advice of a mate of mine who never passes judgement on any album - even by artists that he already likes - until he's listened to it 6 times. Sometimes 2 listens is hard work for me.)

I don't say it's universal, but I do know folks who grab everything for free that they can, and they don't seem to respect it much or even listen to it/watch it/read it. Maybe parting with some of your money means that you are more determined to find value in it.

The piracy question... I know this: The artist is better off if you pay and don't listen than if you don't pay and don't listen, and I want the artists to keep on making money so that there is a viable music business (not just for the Bonos and Beyoncés, but for the many musicians who don't earn that kind of money but still make marvellous music) and the artists will continue to make music rather than pack it in and become accountants so that they can pay for the roof over their head and the food on their table.

Actually.... I do have a CD that I paid for an haven't listened to yet. And I've had it for at least five years. I think it's the only one. But this is where some of that 15% comes in - completism. I know a guy in Belgium who collects releases by certain artists. So if there is, say, an Ian Matthews album that is released in 6 different territories he wants all six - even though it's the same album with pretty much the same packaging. He's not going to PLAY all 6, in fact in many cases he's not even going to break the shrink wrap. He does love the music, but his purchases are also not just buying albums for listening to.