1. ABBA "Gold-Greatest Hits" Sales this week: 14,483Percentage change: +96Weeks on: 12Cume: 4,391,266 Call it the "Mamma Mia" effect. Still, a piss poor number considering the movie’s gross. Should a box of CDs have been sent along with the print? Better yet, should they have been sold for $5 apiece? You know Wal-Mart would agitate […]

Some lawyer or some manager somewhere knows why VH1 can’t be streamed outside the U.S. As my mother would say, way to win friends and influence people. The reason the old infrastructure is dying, the reason I laugh when Doug Morris and the old farts make pronouncements, the reason legal solutions are not the answer, […]

I was thinking that music should be banned from VH1, then I saw Pearl Jam. I read this great quote. How did they decide to honor the Who? Well, they were thinking of someone else, but the Who were available. They were creating a TV show! Maybe that’s how they ended up with this ridiculous […]

TRACKS 1. Katy Perry "I Kissed A Girl" Sales this week: 162,951Percentage change: -7Weeks on: 11Cume: 1,487,745 She only sold 31,971 albums total. And, of those, 6,233 were digital. Seems like a hit today is the track and the track itself. I think the sale of one and a half million copies is significant. But […]