These pop stars dying suddenly...

[Corsair7]

Doing wonders for album sales. Apple even put Witney's greatest hits price up overnight.....

I suspect they are being bumped off by industry insiders....


So whose next to be 'offed' by the industry?

[Shaw Tarse]

Jedward?

[Puggit]

The Bodyguard is still £3 in the bargain bin in Sainsburys

[tvrforever]

Corsair7 said:

Doing wonders for album sales. Apple even put Witney's greatest hits price up overnight.....

Pretty 'interesting' behaviour and purely capitalising on somebody's death since there are no additional/production costs at all for that service... Rather 'not on' as a principle...

Re who next? well I wouldn't have an issue if an 'event' caused a price increase on any of the current UK top 20 singles chart!

[Hoofy]

Puggit said:

The Bodyguard is still £3 in the bargain bin in Sainsburys

You've bought 100 copies to flog on ebay, haven't you?

[Puggit]

Hoofy said:

Puggit said:

The Bodyguard is still £3 in the bargain bin in Sainsburys

You've bought 100 copies to flog on ebay, haven't you?

I can't see anyone turning a profit on one, let alone 100!

[Hoofy]

Puggit said:

I can't see anyone turning a profit on one, let alone 100!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?LH_Auction=1&_trkparms=65%253A12%257C66%253A2%257C39%253A1%257C72%253A5814&rt=nc&_nkw=the+bodyguard&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_sop=1&_sc=1

Not sure how to see recently finished auctions.

[Du1point8]

Damn I thought you were all talking about Pete 'Im a smack head' Doherty

[Shotgun Rider]

I had a look at Amazon's movers and shakers list last night to see how high Whitney had moved in their sales list. She had most of the highest increases on both CDs and DVDs. Most of the percentage increases were in the thousands, I think that The Bodyguard DVD was 20 or 30,000 odd %. It had gone from number 2000 something in the charts to 2.

Still, that's nothing compared to Horrid Henry

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/movers-and-shakers/book...

[KB_S1]

Corsair7 said:

Apple even put Witney's greatest hits price up overnight.....

I don't think apple set the prices. Will check though.

[Shotgun Rider]

KB_S1 said:

I don't think apple set the prices. Will check though.

Looks like it was Sony behind the price hike.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/13/whitne...

[David87]

That's pretty poor form on Sony's part, but guess they need all the money they can get!

[Pommygranite]

I don't understand why people rush out and buy the dead artists back catalogue the minute they die - just download it for free...

[Hoofy]

I don't understand why anyone would buy the albums suddenly. If you were a big enough fan to give a st, you'd already have the album, right?

[grumbledoak]

Hoofy said:

I don't understand why anyone would buy the albums suddenly. If you were a big enough fan to give a st, you'd already have the album, right?

If you aren't into downloading or freeloading you'll find they get 'deleted' after a point. I've been caught out by this before.

[Hoofy]

grumbledoak said:

If you aren't into downloading or freeloading you'll find they get 'deleted' after a point. I've been caught out by this before.

Which isn't a problem as you already have the album if you're that big a fan enough to care.

I guess you're referring to less popular artists. I could still buy "Bad" for about £5 on CD from hmv.co.uk it seems.

[grumbledoak]

Hoofy said:

Which isn't a problem as you already have the album if you're that big a fan enough to care.

Which isn't a problem until some Coventry dope-head decides to steal all your CDs and you cannot get a replacement for love nor money.

[Hoofy]

grumbledoak said:

Which isn't a problem until some Coventry dope-head decides to steal all your CDs and you cannot get a replacement for love nor money.

Ah, that's annoying. However, the dope-head would have to time it right such that he robs you just before the artist dies in order for you to have to pay the inflated price.

[LukeSi]

Surely if the artist dies then the album is no longer covered by copyright laws. Or is it usually a case that the publishers hold the copyright?

[KB_S1]

LukeSi said:

Surely if the artist dies then the album is no longer covered by copyright laws. Or is it usually a case that the publishers hold the copyright?

Way more complex.

The sound recording has one copyright, usually owned by the label that paid for it. This will revert to the artist after a time determined in contract.
The songs are owned by a publisher and the writer.

Copyright on publishing is (I think) now 70 years from death of author. That may not be WH in the case of many of her songs.

There is also rights attributed to any performers on that sound recording.


I might be a bit off on exact details, I haven't read the books for a while but the general idea is as have put it.