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Originally Posted by Ma.Ra
Nowadays, you have much more other entertaining systems such as Internet, TV and much more other music. [...] we have a oversupply of enterainment in contrary to restricted budget and, free time and attention.
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That's true, there are much more things music has to compete with these days. I'm a movie maniac and I just can't pass by the DVD & BluRay shelves and I love computer games. So a lot of my limited leisure time is devoted to that. It was just a few years ago that I rediscovered my love of music, one of the reasons was YouTube. When I was a teenager there was not much aside from listening to music, watching TV and going to the movies.
I think it's much harder to get people interested in music these days, it doesn't represent certain lifestyles and attitudes as much as it used to, it doesn't seem to be that important to people anymore. Plus we have a music industry that apparently rather wants to play it safe and promote talent show "stars" than invest time and money in establishing real and diverse musicians on the market.
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Originally Posted by Ma.Ra
I really don't expect an album staying in the charts for such a long time as bat1 in the present days.
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Maybe not that long but an album can still remain on the charts for quite a while. As far as I know, Unheilig has been in the German Top 10 for about half a year now, most of the time on No. 1.