(Pic: Just Jared)

Here’s a little bit of Katy Perry to brighten your day.  Look how pretty!

Tanya: I don’t know if any of you care about the music industry but it’s something that’s always been of fascination to me. Especially when the recording industry sh*t the bed and decided that they didn’t need to change their distribution model to come into line with the fact that people don’t buy hard copy albums anymore. Well, now they’re starting to realize that they’ve made a huge mistake. Katy Perry’s album came out last week and debuted at #1. They expected her to sell “anywhere from 300,000 to 700,000 units, with most figuring the album would scan about 400,000″ but she really only sold 192,000 hard copy albums (“scans”). To put that into perspective in 2003 50 Cent’s debut album Get Rich or Die Tryin’ scanned 872,000 in it’s first week.

Katy Perry’s digital downloads this week = 689,000 albums.

Do you think the record companies will start to change their distribution method now? I doubt it. They’re still going to hang on to CDs until it runs them into the ground.

(source: Billboard)

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