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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2011 20:50:12 GMT -5
I am a little worried about our ability to get numbers and stats for Adam #2 and singles this time around. Brian seems to be having problems and is not posting much and RCAEd says TPTB don't want to give us numbers either. I wonder if Soundscan is cracking down on members who share the numbers? That is so unfair!!!!  Brian has always had trouble getting numbers for songs that are out of the top 200. It's nothing new. As long as they are in the top 200 (and they will be for a long time) we'll get numbers. |
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Post by JazzRocks on Jul 13, 2011 7:54:04 GMT -5
HDD Final 7 23 DAVID COOK 19/RCA/RMG 13,303 -70% THIS LOUD MORNING That add up to a 2 week total of approximately 60K. Pretty grim! The worst thing is that it is a 70% drop. That's higher than a second week average. Gawd, poor David! What the hell are he and RCA going to do?! Why haven't they tried a 2nd single yet? I know there aren't many (or any) radio friendly singles on there, but it's worth a try maybe? Posters at MJs are saying that 70% drop is typical for second week sales. Adam dropped 69% his second week, but his first week numbers were good so that was less scary. Rationalization is alive & well for Cook. I'm praying we don't have to resort to that for Adam2. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2011 9:24:47 GMT -5
That's the problem, Jazzrocks, 70% drop on such low sales?? That's really bad!
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Post by stardust on Jul 13, 2011 12:54:37 GMT -5
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Post by stardust on Jul 13, 2011 13:33:16 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2011 15:49:42 GMT -5
It is amazing that all three of his videos are in the Top 100 and one is even in the top 50 when they are year old+ songs!! :D |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2011 15:50:16 GMT -5
That is really sad!  |
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Post by HoppersSkippersMiners on Jul 13, 2011 17:48:28 GMT -5
Gah - do y'all think this is purely b/c David was out of the public eye for soooooooooooooooooo long?
Adam tie-in: Adam is still in the gossip rags....but is it enough?
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Post by stardust on Jul 13, 2011 18:00:59 GMT -5
Gah - do y'all think this is purely b/c David was out of the public eye for soooooooooooooooooo long? Adam tie-in: Adam is still in the gossip rags....but is it enough? No, at least not only. He made an album that is not current in a genre that is not popular/big selling and will not play idol music. The music is not exciting, maybe even a little boring. And, yes, he has not done anything to stay in the spotlight, so to the casual observer, he disappeared for 3 years. And, when he finally did turn up, he looked bored premiering his music on TV (although he has been more lively lately). It's like he did almost everything wrong if he wanted to succeed. Adam should have none of these problems. I will not angst because I believe Adam is too smart to make these mistakes. |
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Post by HoppersSkippersMiners on Jul 13, 2011 18:10:11 GMT -5
Can anybody explain to me what I'm suppose to be looking at? :-/ @milestougeaux @negativeneil I asked this 6
months ago. No one ever listens to me. Maybe the graphs will help.
@negativeneil How The Music Industry Has Changed bit.ly/r9MABK (Why are artists still making albums instead of selling a new single every month?)  Bringing this to the Numbers Thread b/c I think its quite interesting. The scales are near enough, so you can compare pretty easily. The thing which I find most surprising is that single sales has historically been so much less than album sales in this time frame. I do wonder if the situation may have been flip-flopped in the 1930s-1960's when it seems a lot of singles were sold. The complete crash of singles in the early 2000's seems to correspond to the rise of CDs. I'm willing to bet b/c CDs were relatively expensive at the time. I'm also willing to bet that quite a few of those album sales (I'm not saying all, but a fair percentage) were people REBUYING albums in different formats. You couldn't play vinyl in the car, so you bought an earlier album in cassette form. Flat CDs were a lot more "storage friendly" (and often had better sound quality), so then you switched to a CD...rebuying the same album AGAIN. Plus all these media could physically break. You could accidentally step on a tape or scratch a CD, and would buy it yet another time. Once we reached the digital era where you could load all your CDs onto an IPod or other MP3 format....why would you ever repurchase another album? Piracy is a relatively new concept. You couldn't easily pirate a physical object (yeah - you could make a mix tape, but the quality decreased every time you re-recorded). And only in the past 2-5 years has the price of data storage come down so much (and the ease of downloading increase so much) that the time hassle was worth it. If I had to pull a number out of my ass, I would guess that 1/4 - 1/3 of all those albums sold in that graph from 1980-2000 were rebuys. Anyone agree with me??  |
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