I'm not talking about club remixes or normal stuff like that, I mean the really shameless stuff. I'll start:

 

The way a lot of estates will milk an artist's recording vault to the bone. That Pop Smoke x Dua Lipa "collab" comes to mind.

 

Also, during the waning years of physical singles, a lot of estates would re-release old songs and secure high charting positions due to low competition. Elvis' estate did a whole campaign in 2005 and released 18 singles, all of which went top-5 in the UK. They even got the 1,000th #1.

 

MJ was still alive in the mid-00s, but he did a similar thing in 2006, which is why so many of his old songs went #1 in Spain that year.

Edited June 22, 20242 yr by Virgos Groove

The tortured variants department 

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This current trend of variants. Unless the album is a signed copy or comes with some really cool merchandise I have no idea why you would want to buy 5 different versions of the same album

 

Or CD and cassette singles  NOBODY is listening to those in 2024, the struggle of having to switch CDs just to listen to one song in the 2000s was real

Edited June 22, 20242 yr by Mordecai

That Aaliyah x Weeknd song and the associated album that never came out. Let that poor woman rest in peace.

 

Also Chris Brown's 40 track albums.

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variants are hardly a cash grab, it generates zero money. Either you are irrelevant and people aren't buying them or you have better ways to generate money like adding more dates to biggest tour in history

TTPD

when they did MDNA deluxe as a 2 discs to charge you more when all the songs and remixes could fit on one CD. It's been 12 years and it still pisses me off

The trend of deluxe versions in the early-to-mid 2010s. I thought we were past that but they're slowly making a return.

Dua's "Moonlight Edition" and "Complete Edition" of her albums.

 

Midnights clock vinyl

Guts vinyls

 

Renaissance & The Eras tour films

 

Post Malone collabing with M*rgan to save his career

 

Katy collabing with luke (yes im honest)

Using autopen for signed albums. Legitimately pissed me off

18 minutes ago, Jotham said:

The trend of deluxe versions in the early-to-mid 2010s. I thought we were past that but they're slowly making a return.

Wait, how are deluxe versions a cash grab? Just get the deluxe one and ignore the standard (at least that's what I always did).

The most shameless cash grab I know is not even a musical one. The Sims 4. A game worth $1,000 and counting

1 hour ago, Virgos Groove said:

Also, during the waning years of physical singles, a lot of estates would re-release old songs and secure high charting positions due to low competition. Elvis' estate did a whole campaign in 2005 and released 18 singles, all of which went top-5 in the UK. They even got the 1,000th #1.

 

MJ was still alive in the mid-00s, but he did a similar thing in 2006, which is why so many of his old songs went #1 in Spain that year.

 

I never thought I'd say this, but BTS and Taylor fans have nothing on this fraudulent ****.

Edited June 22, 20242 yr by blown away

Anything from Kpop groups

That Michael Jackson song that Drake released was pretty weird

Why do people think variants is a Taylor drag when literally every medium-big artist is doing it right now? 

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2 hours ago, Mordecai said:

Or CD and cassette singles  NOBODY is listening to those in 2024

CD is my primary way of buying music, I would absolutely buy CD singles as long as there's a B-side like the old days. It's worth the money to have it.

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Anyone buying some artists' merch is getting scammed imo

Any posthumous release tbh.