DIGITAL SALES-Week Ending 5/29/11 102. Steven Tyler "(It) Feels So Good"Sales this week: 20,502Percentage change: -35.4Cume: 128,895 Uh-oh.  Could it be that despite the accolades, Steven Tyler is even worse off than he was before "American Idol"? I’d posit he is.  Except for a large paycheck. He was a caricature on TV.  Of a rock […]

We’re living in 1967.  The same year "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" was a hit single and Jimi Hendrix opened for the Monkees. You see 1967 was the year the mainstream and the alternative split.  The year the Beatles put out "Sgt. Pepper", with no singles, and FM underground radio got its start. By 1968, […]

1,108,000 copies sold? THAT’S PISS POOR! Okay kids.  Stop that knee-jerk reaction.  Be able to hold two opposing thoughts in your head.  That’s the mark of an educated person. Yes, by conventional SoundScan standards a tick over a million copies in a week is a significant sum. But is there anybody in the U.S. who […]

Twelve years.  The first Coachella was 1999.  Is there a label today that would put that much time into a band? Not that there weren’t indicators of success, not that it was an endless money pit, but it wasn’t until this year that it was clear… It doesn’t matter who plays the festival. Attendees trust […]