| October 18th, 2005 06:59 PM |
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| gotdablouse |
From http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172235,00.html
McCartney, Stones, Streisand: Few CD Sales
The numbers are in, and they are not good.
Combined sales for new albums by established hitmakers of the past totaled less than a quarter million. The news should have the record business in a frenzy. But it doesn't.
New albums by Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones, less than a month old, are already out of the Top 50.
Crushed by lack of radio play, "Chaos and Confusion in the Back Yard" and "A Bigger Bang" made little difference to fans who paid upward of $250 a ticket to see either act in concert this fall.
McCartney's album has sold about 160,000 copies. The Stones are just a little bit ahead, at around 220,000.
Barbra Streisand has fared no better. Her just-released "Guilty Pleasures," a 25th-anniversary nod to 1980's "Guilty" — both albums feature the singing and songwriting of the Bee Gees' Barry Gibb — has caused little excitement even among her rabid fans. "Guilty Pleasures" is also lodged at around 150,000 copies.
Another stalwart, Bonnie Raitt, is hovering at around a mere 100,000 units sold of her new "Souls Alike." And the late Ray Charles, whose "Genius Loves Company" won the Grammy only nine months ago, has racked up only a paltry 44,000 units sold of his posthumously compiled "Genius & Friends" in the last couple of weeks.
The total number of copies sold by this collection of older artists is a little less than 750,000.
A slightly younger act from the 1980s, Bon Jovi, is holding its own with its new "Have a Nice Day," but that seems largely attributed to an appearance on "Oprah."
Aerosmith, dating back a decade further, also have a new album — the live "Rockin' the Joint" comes out Oct. 25. They'd better be planning something big. The band's last album, "Honkin' on Bobo," barely went gold, with 580,000 copies sold. So far, the only publicity about "Rockin' the Joint" is that drummer Joey Kramer may be too ill to tour.
One bright spot could be Stevie Wonder's terrific new album, "A Time 2 Love." It hits stores on Oct. 18. But fans have been downloading it like crazy from all the legal servers. And Motown/Universal will be pulling out all the stops to push Stevie to No. 1 his first week out.
What's the problem? The remaining record companies cannot get buyers into stores, if they can even manage to communicate that a new CD is out. Then the companies can't get Clear Channel to play the CDs. Even "payola" won't work in these cases.
Maybe McCartney and the Stones, at least, should have copied Prince's lead and included a copy of their new CDs with each concert ticket sold. Considering how much money was frittered away in advertising and promotion for these albums, only to recoup small sales, it wouldn't have been such a bad idea.
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| October 21st, 2005 09:10 PM |
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| wgwalsh |
The real deal is technology. It effects the number of units sold. Downloads are common and not always legit.
When a band tours, include the cd into the touring ticket price. This way, the fan has the disc and the band has the sale of the disc plus the show dough. Then the band and the fan both benefit. I believe this format is being used by Prince. Talk about being ahead of the curve.
Some of the tickets prices are off of the chart. Give the fans something more than the other bands do. |
| October 21st, 2005 09:26 PM |
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| Soldatti |
It worked very well with Prince, his album was Top 10 during 16 weeks. The week that the tour ended, the album dropped from #13 to #122, the biggest drop ever for a Top 20 album in US. |
| October 22nd, 2005 09:57 AM |
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| corgi37 |
Rock is dead.
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| October 22nd, 2005 12:57 PM |
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| monkeyman62 |
they dont sell cds but they break crowd records for tours
which would you rather have,nuff said |
| October 22nd, 2005 09:53 PM |
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| gotdablouse |
Arguably, including a CD in the price of a ticket would probably not ruin them but it would make their numbers look a lot better ! |
| October 22nd, 2005 10:02 PM |
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| time is on my side |
This thread already came through here and is currently in the archives. Here were some of the responses:
Joey wrote:
" McCartney, Stones, Streisand: Few CD Sales "
" The numbers are in, and they are not good. Combined sales for new albums by established hitmakers of the past totaled less than a quarter million. The news should have the record business in a frenzy. But it doesn’t.
New albums by Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones, less than a month old, are already out of the Top 50.
Crushed by lack of radio play, "Chaos and Confusion in the Back Yard" and "A Bigger Bang" made little difference to fans that paid upward of $250 a ticket to see either act in concert this fall.
McCartney’s album is around the 160,000 mark. The Stones are just a little bit ahead, around 220,000. "
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172235,00.html
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Soldatti wrote:
What a bunch of idiots, out of the US Top 50?
Macca is #38 this week and the Stones #49, what a big lie.
Total sales for ABB in US: 277,647
Total sales for Macca: 200,222
A Bigger Bang was certified PLATINUM according to Billboard for shipments of 1 million copies.
October 14th, 2005 02:10 PM
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