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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 2495326" data-attributes="member: 115">No, I don't have any figures. I would look it up except for that I'm not sure these figures exist. I wouldn't disagree with your general premise of people hearing the song on MTV buying the CD. It's no different than hearing a song on the radio, or downloading one song and then the rest of the album from iTunes or BitTorrent or what not. However, I would strongly argue that the video had nothing to do with it, because of what you just typed. You didn't say "background visuals", you said "background noise (emphasis mine)". I would argue that is had nothing to do with videos, and everything to do with a) the play of songs as an audial medium on MTV, a popular channel, and b) the rapidly rising popularity of television, and cable television in particular, as an alternative noise filler to radio. I suspect you would be hard pressed to outline an unbiased correlation between video production and CD sales. On the other hand, I can easily show that singles played on the radio drive CD sales. If MTV was basically radio-television, then my point is easily shown, but yours is not. Basically, MTV was no different than any of the "Top 40" radio stations, with the exception of videos. And I figure that if videos were a significant method of generating revenue through CD sales, MTV would have maintained their early format through the efforts of the music industry. What actually happened is MTV basically abandoned videos altogether. That doesn't really instill me with the belief that videos were the cause, so much as hype. Hype can still be gotten on the radio, and can be gotten on TV without videos. [edit] And my dream was sooo to be on remote control, and be flipped over backwards.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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