DaveC
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The Little Bastards That Caused A Delay
I would be very interested to see U2’s standalone physical sales for the last two records, considering SOI’s digital deployment and SOE’s ticket bundling.
Sir? Logic is not welcome hereJust want to point out, the Cure’s re-release of Wish which would be one of the most anticipated re-releases of the last 10 years when you consider scarcity, second hand market activity etc was announced a few weeks ago and just got bumped back to 25 November from October 7. So a couple of things:
- this would have been a massive production run for the vinyl market
- it would have entered production queues months ago
- the delay of 7 weeks was announced today
- the Cure are easily a big enough band for the vinyl demographic to warrant some sort of prioritisation
Considering the size of the collection (40 songs would be a complex package, have 5 or so discs and consume lots of scarce raw materials), production run volumes, timing of the rumour delay, and similarity in terms of vinyl markets for the two artists I’d say it is only a small leap of logic to assume a u2 delay is related to this. They would know full well they aren’t a massive streaming artist and would make most of their money from touring and then physical sales, of which vinyl is now a major contributor. They would certainly be weighing up delaying a digital release if they thought people may not buy it if it’s been out for months before they can get a physical copy.
I would be very interested to see U2’s standalone physical sales for the last two records, considering SOI’s digital deployment and SOE’s ticket bundling.
There's always a way for the band to excuse. COVID, war in the Ukraine, vinyl-issues....
Even revealing the tracklist for the u2.com fangift is too much asked...
I fear to think what your opinions are on Santa Claus or the easter bunny.
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I just don't believe that a band as big as U2, with the clout them and their label has, who work as slowly/predictably as they do, wouldn't have current vinyl delays (w/some contingency) built in to their release plan.
There’s finally new music coming out?
I understand that there's an issue with vinyl that is a bigger issue than previously anticipated, and I understand how this could impact the release of an album on vinyl, and I understand how itcould catch even a band as large as U2 off guard.
I simply don't care.
It's 2022. Drop the digital release. The people who care enough to buy the album on vinyl will buy it regardless of when you release it.
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Also, pretty cool idea of a 4 stage release by Dan. I mean, it would be interesting and be somewhat newsworthy music sites. At least it would be something different.