#267 Buried Treasures & Opinions on Nicki Minaj

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Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2011

⏱️ 59 minutes

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0:00.0	There had been abuse in my family, but it was mostly musical in nature. I don't want any of this lovers lament crap I want something peppy something happy something up temple I want something snappy. As music critics, we get thousands of albums a year and in every stack there's a hidden gem. I'm Greg Carter
0:44.4	the Chicago Tribune and I'm Jim deregatus of vocalo.org today we unearthed some
0:49.0	musical buried treasures plus we'll review the debut album by rapper Nicky Minaj. That's all coming up on sound opinions.
1:00.0	From W.B.E.Z Chicago and distributed by PRX you're listening to sound opinions and time now for some music news I was born free.
1:15.0	free.
1:17.0	free.
1:20.0	That is kid rock with a title song from his latest album Born Free.
1:27.0	A few weeks ago we were talking about Kid Rock in the context of here's one of the few artists left who is not unbundling his albums and making
1:36.0	tracks available individually at music digital stores like iTunes.
1:41.0	He's one of the few holdouts, Kid Rock, AC,
1:43.4	D.C. Garth Brooks, Bob Seger, some of the handful of artists who are
1:46.8	saying album-only, I'm not selling individual tracks through iTunes.
1:51.4	And we were looking at this kind of skeptically saying why
1:53.9	wouldn't they want to play along. Well now Glenn People's a reporter in
1:57.7	Billboard magazine is saying Kid Rock's got it right all along. He's actually making
2:01.4	more money by employing this strategy.
2:05.0	Born Freee so far has sold 612,000 albums, a pretty significant number in this age.
2:12.0	Peoples is saying that had he made the tracks available individually,
2:16.6	the album would have sold only 294,000 copies. The difference is significant. Right now, Kid Rock has made 7.9 million dollars on those album sales.
2:26.0	Had he made the tracks available individually, he would have made only 4.6 million dollars.
2:31.0	A difference of more than 3 million dollars. $3 million.
2:34.0	So maybe Kid Rock had to write it all along, Jim.
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