The iconic RCA logo is a dog named, Nipper, listening to a gramophone. Gramophone use died by the early 1950’s. The Grammy trophy is a gramophone. Best album is one of several Grammy Awards. Yet, album sales are at their lowest since 1991. Sunday’s Grammy Awards TV broadcast was the lowest rated since 2009, down by 23 million people. Television viewership in general is declining. Here’s the irony. The Grammy Award is a trophy of technology that was outdated by the 1950’s, is given for albums, whose popularity peaked in the early 1990’s, and is watched on TV, which peaked last decade. A gold plated 8-Track tape would be more modern the current Grammy trophy. I’m E. Curtis Johnson with the proverbial question.  If album sales fell in the forest, and Nipper, the RCA dog, wasn’t there to hear it, would it make a noise? Additionally, would Brian Williams claim he was present when the album sales fell? Would Kanye West say Beyonce’s album fall made a louder noise?

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