Do people still use the Billboard charts as a barometer to buy music? If the CD is only available at Target and as a download, who needs charts?
Daryle <Moderator: The fans no, but the music industry yes. They need numbers to gauge if they are going to release another prince album. Prince is not a competent enough business many to do his own promotion and distribution. Which is why he keeps to others to put how his next release. In this economy low sales equal closed doors. -Derek> On Apr 2, 2009, at 6:11 AM, ZA wrote: > Not bad at all: > > http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/newsPage.cgi?news07520 > > http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/prince-s-lotusflow3r-off-to- > strong-sales > -1003958005.story > > <Moderator: Traditionally Price always says around 150,000 units > the first > week. It's not really impressive at all. It's only impressive when he > continues to do so for proceeding weeks. 1 weekend of promo and an > no push > for Bria is not going to sell CDs. I am glad they are at least > reporting on > the Soundscan numbers. The RIAA numbers are bull. They are going to > report > 140000 x 3. Each CD in a set counts as a sell to the RIAA. They > also count > units shipped not sound like Sound scan -Derek> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- NewPowerNewYork Mailing List website: Www.NPNY.Org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? Email: majord...@*remove*lists.panix.com, in body place npny ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Questions/Help?: visio...@*remove*panix.com
