Broadway Records to release MY FAIR LADY cast album- Page 6

[divarobbie2]

Posted: 6/8/18 at 11:07pm

The album cost upwards of $300,000 - streaming would not help it pay back at all. Spotify pays between $0.001 and $0.007 per stream, so with the typical Broadway cast album costing an average between $250,000 and $500,000, 100 million streams are necessary to recoup its production costs – without paying the costs of royalties for the show or songwriters or distribution. Of the approximately 320 million people living in the United States, one-third of the population would have to stream a show to recoup its production costs just from streaming. That's why we don't put it on streaming right away.

MichelleCraig said: "I pay for bothApple Music and Spotify. Currently, it’s not available on either of these services. I think someone said earlier that this record label doesn’t release digitally forsometimes up to a year. That’s a shame as they’d realize revenues now from digital. In a year, demand will not be so great...or a lot of people will have moved on to next year’s cast albums. All of the majors release their cast albums day-and-date with the physical release. I “get” that this label wants to sell physical discs, but most ofthe audience has moved on to digital services. It’s just the way things are now...

i am listening to the recording on Vulture now. It’s quite good.I’ll “buy it” when it’s available on Apple Music or Spotify. Until then, the Original Broadway Cast recording and the London Cast recording, both with JulieAndrews,and the later in stereo, aren’t too shabby...

Again, though, this new recording does not disappoint. It is beautifully produced."

[kofler22]

Posted: 6/9/18 at 12:51pm

Don ‘t you feel that all the tempos on the Eliza’s songs are a little bit slower than usual? Also, the tone in her voice is lower than the accostumed Elizas

[60'splayoff]

Posted: 7/21/18 at 11:43am

For those of us too stubborn to purchase this on iTunes, it's finally up on Spotify! Must've been added yesterday...

https://open.spotify.com/album/51698aTAgp4hUSqBc6dima

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 7/21/18 at 6:09pm

kofler22 said: "Don ‘t you feel that all the tempos on the Eliza’s songs are a little bit slower than usual? Also, the tone in her voice is lower than the accostumed Elizas"

Many cast recordings will speed up tempos to make the recordings more exciting (for instance, no dancers are doing the Dance at the Gym at the speed that's preserved on the original cast recording). I think what you're hearing on this recording are tempos that match what's actually being done in the theatre, as opposed to the slightly sped up tempos that often get used for cast recordings.