{"id":13577,"date":"2024-03-05T12:37:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T11:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/the-internet-is-an-alien-life-form-how-david-bowie-created-a-market-for-digital-music\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T12:37:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T11:37:22","slug":"the-internet-is-an-alien-life-form-how-david-bowie-created-a-market-for-digital-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/the-internet-is-an-alien-life-form-how-david-bowie-created-a-market-for-digital-music\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The internet is an alien life form\u2019: how David Bowie created a market for digital music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bowie\u2019s 1999 album Hours\u2026 was the first to go on sale online before hitting regular stores \u2013 and his experimentation caused horror in the music industry<\/p>\n

It is far from his best album, and not even his best album of the 1990s, but Hours… is David Bowie\u2019s most significant album that decade. Not because of the music, however, but how it was released: the first album by a major artist on a major label to emerge as a download before it arrived physically.<\/p>\n

Writing about the album in August 1999 ahead of its September release, Rolling Stone called Hours\u2026 a \u201ccyber-coup\u201d: a continuation of Bowie\u2019s fascination with releasing music online, which he started with the Telling Lies single in 1996. He had also enthusiastically embraced webcasting and created his own internet service provider with BowieNet in 1998 \u201cI couldn\u2019t be more pleased to have the opportunity of moving the music industry closer to the process of making digital downloads available as the norm and not the exception,\u201d is how Bowie explained the Hours\u2026 release at the time. \u201cWe are all aware that broadband opportunities are not yet available to the overwhelming majority of people, and therefore expect the success of this experiment to be measured in hundreds and not thousands of downloads. However, just as colour television broadcasts and film content on home video tapes were required first steps to cause their industries to expand consumer use, I am hopeful that this small step will lead to larger leaps by myself and others ultimately giving consumers greater choices and easier access to the music they enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nBowie\u2019s 1999 album Hours\u2026 was the first to go on sale online before hitting regular stores \u2013 and his experimentation caused horror in the music industry
\nIt is far from his best album, and not even his best album of the 1990s, but Hours… is David Bowie\u2019s most significant album that decade. Not because of the music, however, but how it was released: the first album by a major artist on a major label to emerge as a download before it arrived physically.
\nWriting about the album in August 1999 ahead of its September release, Rolling Stone called Hours\u2026 a \u201ccyber-coup\u201d: a continuation of Bowie\u2019s fascination with releasing music online, which he started with the Telling Lies single in 1996. He had also enthusiastically embraced webcasting and created his own internet service provider with BowieNet in 1998 \u201cI couldn\u2019t be more pleased to have the opportunity of moving the music industry closer to the process of making digital downloads available as the norm and not the exception,\u201d is how Bowie explained the Hours\u2026 release at the time. \u201cWe are all aware that broadband opportunities are not yet available to the overwhelming majority of people, and therefore expect the success of this experiment to be measured in hundreds and not thousands of downloads. However, just as colour television broadcasts and film content on home video tapes were required first steps to cause their industries to expand consumer use, I am hopeful that this small step will lead to larger leaps by myself and others ultimately giving consumers greater choices and easier access to the music they enjoy.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bowie\u2019s 1999 album Hours\u2026 was the first to go on sale online before hitting regular stores \u2013 and his experimentation caused horror in the music industry It is far from his best album, and not even his best album of the 1990s, but Hours… is David Bowie\u2019s most significant album that decade. Not because of …<\/p>\n

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