Reader Request: Big in 2008
January 9th, 2008 - by Dave
2007 certainly wasn’t a boom year for the music industry.
Concert ticket sales were down. The top selling album was a Christmas record by Josh Groban. The number two record… Disney’s High School Musical soundtrack. Rolling Stone’s year-end issue read like a eulogy for the biz by both the artists and the critics. Shit is bleak right now.
But around the corner from every bust, there’s a boom waiting in the wings. And we’ve got high hopes for 2008.
Here are some of our predictions for music in 2008:
- Radiohead will release their next album as a series of ringtones. They’ll let you know the price after you download.
- Garth Brooks will launch the Low Places comeback tour, rocking out in Walmart parking lots across the country.
- Apple will form its own music label and start signing artists directly. You will immediately be able to rent new tracks for a modest weekly fee.
- Nirvana jumps on the recent reunion bandwagon and release a new record featuring Frances Bean on vocals.
- Jay-Z expands his conquest for global domination stepping into a new role as chairman for the AARP.
- The top album of 2008 will be made by a some 14 year old kid with zero musical talent screwing around on
a laptopGuitar Hero.
So what are your music predictions for ‘08? Speak your mind in the comments.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:20 am
In the year 2008….
-the game Rock Band will replace crappy cover bands that play in seedy bars. If we’re gonna hear our favorite songs get butchered, we might as well have cool graphics to go with it.
-Axl Rose releases one copy of “Chinese Democracy,” plays it once, and then sets fire to it. The video of the fire is shown constantly on FOX news
-It’ll be the summer of the political rock song and only 24% of it will be good
-Amy Winehouse sobers up and gains 50 pounds, bring her total weight to 98
-the rock opera comes back and is welcomed with open arms
-the backyard concert is embraced by hipsters, due mostly to the inclusion of a grill and a slip’n slide
-Death Cab for Cutie plays “Freebird” at a concert after someone yells it out. The next day the review reads “Best. Concert. Ever.”
-Michael Jackson tours and people discover they are willing to pay $200 to hear “Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough” and overlook Jacko’s creepy past
-Britney Spears, Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton start a music festival called “Drunk-apaloo-whore”
March 23rd, 2009 at 11:32 am
I dont usually comment, but after reading through so much info I had to say thanks