Music Industry officially confirms first “global release day” for July, adds a second Christmas in August while they’re at it

Music Industry officially confirms first "global release day" for July, adds a second Christmas in August while they're at it

Hey, don’t you fucking hate alliterative consonance? Doesn’t the sonority of the phrase “New Music Tuesdays” just drive you up the wall? Me too! And, also, GREAT NEWS then! Remember how we told you last month all about how International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI — and yeah, totally a real thing) just kinda… got a little high and thought it’d be rad and funny and cool to change the global release day of all music ever to Fridays beginning sometime “this summer”?

Welp, they weren’t quite as hopelessly stoned as we thought when they cooked up that plan, because they’re actually following through with it! Because, uh, beginning Friday, July 10, SHIT GETS RELEASED ON FRIDAYS. Period. Fuck you.

But wait. Why is this happening again? Right: because it’ll “bring all territories in line with Australia and Germany, among others.” Well thank goodness! Although, last week it was also announced that the Official Chart on Radio 1 will be moved to Fridays starting in July too, so this only makes sense, right?

Meanwhile, news of the switcheroo has been “met with a mixed reaction” from the industry; chief among the eye-rollers being co-founder of the independent music recording, licensing, distribution, sales, marketing, and whatever-the-hell-else company [PIAS] Michel Lambot, who recently expressing concern about what it could mean for development and local artists.

“If a global chart reigns supreme, development artists and local artists will have to get used to hearing the voice of America, everywhere. Big money, big global campaigns, will dominate,” Lambot wrote in a recent blog. “This can only help the blockbusters become even bigger, for a longer period of time, in more markets.”

On the other side of the coin though, those “blockbusters” and all of the distributors and retailers who sell them are all kinda like “Hell yeah. That sounds good to us.” So that’s that.

See you guys in the checkout line at the Best Buy on Friday, July 10, right?

• IFPI: http://www.ifpi.org

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