It seems two British record labels are attempting to beat piracy once and for all. Universal and Sony Music will release singles the day they are played on the radio in the UK.

David Joseph, the chief executive of Universal Music "Wait is not a word in the vocabulary of the current generation. It's out of date to think that you can build up demand for a song by playing it for several weeks on radio in advance."

He has a very valid point. How many times have you loved the single and wanted to buy it only to find out you can't get it until the album is released 3 months from now? I remember loving Chris Cornell's Scream song when I first heard it on the radio, but I had to wait almost six months to get the album and thankfully my interest waned. That saved me from buying a turd of an album.

"What we were finding under the old system was the searches for songs on Google or iTunes were peaking two weeks before they actually became available to buy, meaning that the public was bored of – or had already pirated – new singles," Joseph added.

From this article:

Although pirating songs from the radio is as old as tape recorders, the record companies believe the move will show ministers that they are playing their part in fighting copyright theft.

You aren't getting it record companies. The current generation has valued music as free. You are not going to change that mentality no matter how many frivolous lawsuits or empty threats of lawsuits you toss around. The old way of doing business is gone and you are dying because you are refusing to adapt.

We are all for the music artist on this site and my loyalties lie right with the band/musicians always. There are a lot of solutions I have for the record companies, but I don't want to see that happen as it would cut the ability of the artists to make their money.

I do not agree with file sharing; let me be clear about that. Absolutely nothing the record companies will do or can do will stop file sharing. It is too easy and too widespread to stop it. The record companies can blame consumers, that Napster guy, whoever they want, but music should be free is the prevailing mentality.

So how can record labels make money? You should keep doing what you are doing. Investing in hip hop and disposable pop because the public seems to want to buy that shit. Leave rock n' roll alone and we will fend for ourselves. Selling our albums on our own where total profit is ours and not $.03 of every album sold. You should also keep the hell away from our concert profits as that is where we make most of our money - selling merch and getting people into our shows.

There is no way record sales are going to soar ever again due to piracy. The record companies need to come up with new ways to make money and then give the music away for free. This is where being a rock band will come in handy because the music you create is merely marketing for your live shows. I haven't met a rock band other than British Sea Power who had a fucking terrible live show. Maybe Black Forest Locomotive, but the epic on-stage meltdown was worth the 5.00 price of admission.The record companies could start jumping in to that realm of scraping money off the top of the ticket sales.

Until they evolve, the record companies will always been fighting a losing battle. The old farts in power can't figure this out and until they go away and adopt a new system, they will always be "losing" money.