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Posted November 6, 2007 — in Music News
Britney’s Blackout: “Blackout,” will finish at No. 1 this week, according the chartmakers. “Blackout” sold between 325,000 and 350,000 copies and remains the No. 1 downloaded album on iTunes and the fifth bestselling CD on Amazon.com.
What is interesting today is that the charts are less relevant. The Eagles‘ latest double CD album, ‘Long Road Out Of Eden‘, will sell more than twice as much as Britney’s Blackout. The Eagles album is only available at Wal-Mart retailers and is expected to sell 700k+. The Eagles new record is not elgible for the Billboard Album chart because its being carried by a single retailer.
Prince attacks fansites: Prince and his lawyers are sending out legal letters to ‘Prince’ fan sites asking them for compensation. Is this the new artist business model? Giving away music for free in a weekly newspaper and generate revenue from fansites?
The letter reads…
Prince’s representatives have requested that the fansites provide them with “substantive details of the means by which you [the fansites] propose to compensate our clients [Paisley Park Enterprises, NPG Records and Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG)] for damages…” (Read more here)
American Idol will undergo some changes in its 7th season: This season will feature fewer celebrity mentors and the contestants will be now allowed to show off their instrumental talent. (More here…)
Check out Feist flawlessly perform “1234″ on SNL.
Fuck Prince. I was going to write a bunch more shit, but that sums it up.
Tim
Comment by Tim Walker — November 6, 2007 @ 11:42 am
I have always like Prine but this is completely odd and very ego driven.
He’ll get a lot of press out of this, which will drive sales. That’s the ONLY reason why I can see him doing this.
Comment by Tim Towner — November 6, 2007 @ 1:18 pm
Metallica’s press didn’t drive sales.
Comment by Jon Cole — November 6, 2007 @ 1:32 pm
Heard “1234,” saw the commercial. Thought it was Cat Power a few weeks ago til I realized Power only has a covers album release in the works.
Comment by A2daC — November 6, 2007 @ 1:48 pm
“1234″ ?
Comment by Scott — November 6, 2007 @ 4:14 pm
By the way Eagles will be at the #1 spot on the Billboard charts due to a revised chart policy from Billboard.
Comment by Dave — November 7, 2007 @ 5:37 am