So... Bastiat wants suggestions of current songs.
I've been maintaining a list for years of songs people have asked to sing at my karaoke shows that I've been unable to find karaoke tracks for, and only very rarely does someone ask for something current that I don't already have or am unable to get that minute as a (presumably) legit paid download. There is no shortage of karaoke track producers making current songs available that are much less expensive than buying an RYOK disc, and are ready to play immediately. I spend most of my money on songs that are 3 or more years old that have been previously unavailable on sites like karaoke-version.com and sbikaraoke.com. Please, Bastiat, consider this. I think most independent KJs would agree with me that it's these older previously unavailable or now out-of-print songs that we want to spend our money on, not more "current songs" that no one cares about. And any KJ that's paying attention already has more than enough options for buying "current songs".
These are the only "current songs" I'm interested in that I don't have karaoke for already:
Backstreet Boys - Show 'Em (What You're Made Of)
Brad Paisley - Death Of A Married Man / Harvey Bodine
Brad Paisley - Karate
Tim Hicks - Stronger Beer
Luke Bryan - Love In A College Town
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - And We Danced
A$AP Rocky - Angels
Jake Miller - A Million Lives
But... I don't think I'd be willing to buy a whole disc full of songs I already have karaoke for just to get one of those songs. When will the RYOK product be available as single track downloads?
These are the non-current songs I've been getting asked for constantly for years that I would actually consider buying on a disc even if I wasn't interested in the disc's other tracks:
Hurt - Rapture
E-40 - Tell Me When To Go
Slick Rick - Children's Story
Easy-E - Boyz-N-The-Hood
Deftones & Maynard Keenan - Passenger
Rolling Stones - Far Away Eyes
Beck - Where It's At
Afroman - Palmdale
Social Distortion - Ring Of Fire
Ludacris - What's Your Fantasy
Snoop Doggy Dog; Nate Dogg; Warren G & Kurupt
- Ain't No Fun (If The Homies Can't Have None)
Matchbox 20 - You Won't Be Mine
Stone Temple Pilots - Dead & Bloated
Stone Temple Pilots - Crackerman
Tyga - Make It Nasty
2 Live Crew - Hoochie Mama
Pearl Jam - Release
Pearl Jam - Oceans
Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole (album version)
Pepper - Give It Up
Ludacris - Ho
Alter Bridge - Shed My Skin
Lonely Island & Justin Timberlake - Dick In A Box
Laura Branigan - Ti Amo
Easton Corbin - Don't Ask Me About A Woman
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
Sparks & Jane Wiedland - Cool Places
Sammy Hagar - The Girl Gets Around
Toadies - I Come From The Water
Citizen Cope - Bullet And A Target
LL Cool J - Big Ole Butt
Weird Al Yankovic - Grapefruit Diet
Will Ferrell & John C Reilly (Step Brothers) - Boats 'N Hoes
Grateful Dead (Bob Weir) - Mexicali Blues
Offspring - Bad Habit
Evans Blue - Quote
Deftones - My Own Summer (Shove It)
E-40 - Captain Save A Hoe
Gorky Park - Bang
AMG - B1tch Betta Have My Money
Mickey Avalon - My D1ck
Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule
Cult - Edie (Caio Baby)
Drake & Lil Wayne - HYFR
Akinyele - Put It In Your Mouth
A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum
Notorious BIG - Gimme The Loot
2Pac & Snoop Doggy Dogg - 2 Of Amerikaz Most Wanted
Tripping Daisy - I Got A Girl
El DeBarge - Who's Johnny
Shwayze - Buzzin'
Lonely Island & Natalie Portman - Natalie Rap
311 - Beautiful Disaster
Five Finger Death Punch - Under And Over It
Volbeat - Still Counting
XTC - Dear God
Rush - Roll The Bones
Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose
AC/DC - Squealer
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Sex On Wheelz
Weird Al Yankovic - Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies
Ludacris; Shawnna & Lil' Fate - P-Poppin
Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde
Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song
Monster Magnet - Negasonic Teenage Warhead
Nada Surf - Popular
Nice & Smooth - Sometimes I Rhyme Slow
Rage Against The Machine - People Of The Sun
Steve Goodman - Go Cubs Go
Lo Fidelity Allstars - Battle Flag
Dan Band - Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Ludacris - Move B1tch
Down AKA Kilo - Lean Like A Cholo
Whodini - Friends
With as hard of a sell as RYOK is, instead of wasting your time competing in the already flooded current song market, why not produce songs for karaoke that KJs are asking to buy that your much-more-convenient competition has not already made?
I spend an average of $120 at karaoke-version.com and $100 at sbikaraoke.com monthly on songs that are over 3 years old that I want. I would spend more if they put out more of what I wanted. Doesn't Steller want that business?
In comparison, I've never spent more than $40 in a month on Pop Hits Monthly discs, and in 2013 I only bought 3.