Only seem to work at Wal-Mart.<\/p>\n
You can rail on and on about the economy, but if that were a factor, how come the AC\/DC album sold 90,000 to Guns N’ Roses 257,000?\u00c2\u00a0 Even though "Black Ice" has already been in the marketplace for six weeks?\u00c2\u00a0 As for Christina Aguilera, last week, her second, she sold fewer than half her first week total, for an anemic cume of 104,000.<\/p>\n
In other words, Best Buy and Target are not Wal-Mart.\u00c2\u00a0 And Wal-Mart is shrinking its floorspace and its two biggest winners, the Eagles and AC\/DC, were beneficiaries of incredible positioning, and in the case of the Eagles, incredible pricing.<\/p>\n
I hope Irving got big checks from Best Buy and Target.\u00c2\u00a0 Because he ended up with anemic sales.<\/p>\n
I think we’re about done with this exclusive retailer gambit.\u00c2\u00a0 I think we’re going straight to sponsored music.\u00c2\u00a0 Or should be.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, the newspapers are in terrible shape, but there’s got to be a major corporation that’s willing to give away free CDs\/music for the foot traffic\/eyeballs.<\/p>\n
"Chinese Democracy" should have been given away at GM dealerships.\u00c2\u00a0 Or even Toyota, that company’s sales were off by a third in November.<\/p>\n
Corporations have the money, musicians have the goods.\u00c2\u00a0 There would be a stampede to the outlet if the music was free.\u00c2\u00a0 And, with the new music in so many hands, touring revenue would shoot up.\u00c2\u00a0 Assuming the album were good.<\/p>\n
With all the Britney hype, why didn’t she make a deal with a mental health company?\u00c2\u00a0 Everybody comes in for a free screening!\u00c2\u00a0 Or a consortium of plastic surgeons.\u00c2\u00a0 You come in for a Britney CD and get a free consultation.<\/p>\n
It’s come to this.\u00c2\u00a0 The big boxes, that put the indie retailers out of business, other than Wal-Mart, can’t move the product anymore.\u00c2\u00a0 The iTunes Store sells a fraction of the physical product, because consumers are allowed to pick and choose exactly what they want and only buy singles.\u00c2\u00a0 You’ve got to sell everybody a bucket of tracks for a low price to meet your numbers.\u00c2\u00a0 Oops, that was the Napster model, from almost a DECADE AGO!<\/p>\n
Congratulations major labels…\u00c2\u00a0 You’ve marginalized yourselves!\u00c2\u00a0 Wanting everybody to pay for music, suddenly few are.\u00c2\u00a0 And all the money is on the road.\u00c2\u00a0 And why should an act give you a share of its road money, you’re not agents, you don’t know how to do it, you only want to skim the cream from the top.\u00c2\u00a0 Or try to get the act on terrestrial radio and television, neither of which move tonnage like the old days.<\/p>\n
So, do you want the money or the career?<\/p>\n
Turns out taking the money isn’t so great for your career.\u00c2\u00a0 Axl Rose is gonna have the stink of the failure of "Chinese Democracy" on his back forevermore.\u00c2\u00a0 His only option will be to reunite with the old gang and play the twenty year old material.<\/p>\n
Hell, no one’s really interested in the new music of old acts.\u00c2\u00a0 So, either sell your records and get out…on the road, like Neil Diamond…\u00c2\u00a0 Or figure out a way not to move the product so much as get it exposed, get people to actually hear it.\u00c2\u00a0 So they listen intently and applaud when you play these newly-minted numbers live, as opposed to going to the bathroom.<\/p>\n
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