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^^I'm aware of that. But that (Thriller era) was a long time "before he died!" That's my point.
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You make a fair and interesting point. There's definitely been an over saturation since 2009. Fans barely had time to process June 25th and This Is It was out. The Michael album was chaos. What was the reception for the Immortal soundtrack like again? It's a blur to me, I actually can't remember. Bad 25 saw endless disscusion about the Wembley footage and audio mix, every Bad 25 related thread turned into the same argument. Xscape was devided but overall well received and the "hologram" performance of Slave To The Rhythm was war. Off The Wall was disappointing although I enjoyed the documentary. It's been a mad 7 years actually. All the leaked tracks and concerts also. A bit of downtime is good in an age where everything is instant. It's been quite low key this year.I agree! I love getting new material and Xscape was the closest thing I have ever got to feeling what a "new" Michael Jackson album is like, but I'm fine with holding off on unreleased music for a while. I'm optimistic for the future and I'm sure the Estate can come up with some cool new projects!
Michael's legacy is what he put out during his life, and his posthumous work does little more than compliment it. LNFSG might've hit #1 around the world and introduced many fans to his work at the time, but ultimately, it's Billie Jean and the like that are going to keep his legacy going.
I think also that we shouldn't rule out unreleased music all together. It's good because they're showing they're not just thinking about the short term, but they're thinking about how long they can prolong new Michael material for. Nobody wants a Tupac situation where every single piece of unreleased music (and then some...) is released within the first decade, because then what? It also shows they have some integrity and are not willing to scrape the bottom of the barrel... like what happened with Tupac... again.
And sometimes it's nice to have a quiet period. The market has been saturated with plenty of Michael Jackson products over the past few years, and by having a few years of quiet will help make future releases more prominent and gain more attention. It's happened with other artists before (I.e. The Beatles) and it's happened with other markets too (The Disney Vault, so to speak).
No such thingSoooo the physical copy of "Dangerous 25" comes out...when?
Do you know how much he sells every year worldwide?I follow Billboard. Every year Thriller, Bad, Number Ones and Essential sell effortlessly around 100-130k each (only in the US), without any campaign. So why bother with big costs and effort for the production and marketing of posthumus albums when they will hardly sell more than the classic albums do without any promo?
I wonder what their definition of 'exciting' is. The music is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. Aside from that probably concerts, a blu-ray of Ghosts, and candid footage of Michael.
The MJ Estate haven't made much money with unreleased music, "This Is It" and the Cirque du Soleil projects were a lot more profitable.
So where is the logic
Their sale of the 50% share of the Sony/ATV catalogue should give you an indicator of success by largely moving away from the music business. US-$ 750,000,000 isn't bad. The heyday of Michael's shared catalogue is over and despite some fans' moaning, if Michael was still alive, he would have been advised to sell it, too.Where in their history has shown that a move like that will be successful?
He knows how to generate profit. Fulfilling fan wishes was neither Michael's nor his priority.Branca is very slowly beginning to give off the indication that he either has no idea what he's doing
How does the record business make money nowadays anyway? Over the past I'd say 15 years people can freely get music online now for free, so record companies must know about it. So how do they make their money?
Tours, merchandise, appearances etc. That's what they call 360 deals. All major music artists have such deals. Music is nowadays is such a small part of the revenues.
Quite ironic. The music business now makes money that doesn't really come from the music. Heh.