Evening All, Much as I`m disappointed at JTH not cracking the top 40 this week - hopefully next week things will change - the blame for this must surely rest squarely on Virgin. Let`s face it, Virgin`s attitude appears to have been lousy from the start! A week before Lovestruck was released they allowed it to be included on Now 43, in my opinion a marketing disaster as the casual buyer wasn`t going to buy Now 43 then fork out again for the single a week later! As has been pointed out many times, publicity from Virgin with regard to JTH has been virtually non-existent! I also feel that Virgin made a major, major mistake in agreeing to put all the tracks from Wonderful on the net a week before release also yet again no publicity for the album! OK, you, me and all the die-hard fans will still buy Wonderful but the average Joe in the street won`t! If you were a casual fan of a band and came across an entire new album on the net, for free, would you then go out a week later and buy the CD when you already have it for nothing!!! All in all I think the marketing department at Virgin should be ashamed of themselves for this fiasco and also kicking themselves for the hundreds, if not thousands, of sales they have casually thrown away!! Mike H - ______________________________________________________________ Visit the Total Madness Mailing List website for: latest news, madmeet info, list charter, games, and more ... http://members.xoom.com/totalmadmail/ Contact the TMML Moderators at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the message body put: unsubscribe total-madness
