Re: BitTorrent activity on Paul McCartney’s "Kisses on the Bottom," the album is being traded at a fraction of comparable titles. Van Halen’s "A Different Kind Of Truth," also released yesterday, is being traded at about 4X the volume of "Kisses," and Leonard Cohen’s "Old Ideas" is seeing more than double the audience of McCartney’s album. Interestingly (and perhaps to the credit of the file sharing community), Amnesty International’s various artist release, "Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan," proceeds from which benefit the organization’s support of human rights causes, is being swapped in surprisingly small numbers — less than half of the volume of the "Kisses."

Incidentally, Diana Krall appears on the Amnesty album as well, performing "Simple Twist of Fate." She wins!

John Robinson
BigChampagne

Macca piracy is not "nothing," but I take your point. Been looking at it. Fair bit of curiosity about the new standards record, esp in EU, on the one-click sites and torrents. But the feedback is pretty overwhelmingly negative: a combination of "I got what I paid for this," "this is not rock, it’s easy listening," and "the quality of the recording is awful." IOW, what you’d expect from the torrent set.

Eric Garland
BigChampagne