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In response to "All Beatles albums are Billboard 200 eligible so we'll know a week from Thursday how successful this was. " by Tim

It will be successful in the short term because top advertising on iTunes moves the needle on anything

Posted by stewie (aka whysoserious) Nov 16 '10, 13:38

but in the long run it's a non-event. All of the music has been traded digitally for years, giving people a new way to pay for it isn't anything important.

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Yes, this. But the huge fanfare is understandable, given the sour apple records relationship that has persisted for years. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 16, 13:47 4
- (And in my opinion, short term - in this case - means a huge spike in the next two months, and then very respectable numbers for about 8 months) - Beryllium Nov 16, 13:48 3
  - Now what are your calculations if Paul and Ringo die together in a horrible money fire? -- nm - con_carne Nov 16, 13:51 2
    - money would have to be printed to keep up with sales. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 13:52
    - the spike would be shaped like a dollar sign -- nm - Beryllium Nov 16, 13:51
prepare for incoming loosi and mara. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 13:39 9
- I'm not making a judgement of the artist at all... it'd have to music people have never heard to matter in the way Apple is pretending it does -- nm - stewie Nov 16, 13:47 1
  - I quite like The Beatles, myself. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 13:50
- Why? He hasn't said anything I disagree with. You may be misunderstanding my position. -- nm - mara Nov 16, 13:43 6
  - If you don't disagree with anything he said, you don't disagree with anything I said. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 13:44 5
    - Amazing. -- nm - mara Nov 16, 13:47 4
      - Then you truly didn't understand what I was saying. -- nm - Reagen Nov 16, 13:49 3
        
        I understood you as saying no one would buy the music, because it's already been boughten. -- nm - loosilu Nov 16, 13:53 1
        
        This is what I thought, too. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 16, 13:54
        
        Of course. :-) -- nm - mara Nov 16, 13:50

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It will be successful in the short term because top advertising on iTunes moves the needle on anything

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