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Foxnews.com комментирует низкие продажи последних альбомов Маккартни, Стоунз и Барбары Стрейзанд.
P.S. По поводу вылета "Хаоса" из Top50. Это чистейшей воды утка. Маккартни по прежнему на 38-м месте Биллборда:
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McCartney, Stones, Streisand: Few CD Sales
The numbers are in, and they are not good.
Combined sales for new albums by established hitmakers of the past totaled less than a quarter million. The news should have the record business in a frenzy. But it doesn't.
New albums by Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones, less than a month old, are already out of the Top 50. Crushed by lack of radio play, "Chaos and Confusion in the Back Yard" and "A Bigger Bang" made little difference to fans who paid upward of $250 a ticket to see either act in concert this fall. McCartney's album has sold about 160,000 copies. The Stones are just a little bit ahead, at around 220,000.
Barbra Streisand has fared no better. Her just-released "Guilty Pleasures," a 25th-anniversary nod to 1980's "Guilty" — both albums feature the singing and songwriting of the Bee Gees' Barry Gibb — has caused little excitement even among her rabid fans. "Guilty Pleasures" is also lodged at around 150,000 copies.
Another stalwart, Bonnie Raitt, is hovering at around a mere 100,000 units sold of her new "Souls Alike." And the late Ray Charles, whose "Genius Loves Company" won the Grammy only nine months ago, has racked up only a paltry 44,000 units sold of his posthumously compiled "Genius & Friends" in the last couple of weeks.
The total number of copies sold by this collection of older artists is a little less than 750,000. A slightly younger act from the 1980s, Bon Jovi, is holding its own with its new "Have a Nice Day," but that seems largely attributed to an appearance on "Oprah."
Aerosmith, dating back a decade further, also have a new album — the live "Rockin' the Joint" comes out Oct. 25. They'd better be planning something big. The band's last album, "Honkin' on Bobo," barely went gold, with 580,000 copies sold. So far, the only publicity about "Rockin' the Joint" is that drummer Joey Kramer may be too ill to tour.
One bright spot could be Stevie Wonder's terrific new album, "A Time 2 Love." It hits stores on Oct. 18. But fans have been downloading it like crazy from all the legal servers. And Motown/Universal will be pulling out all the stops to push Stevie to No. 1 his first week out.
What's the problem? The remaining record companies cannot get buyers into stores, if they can even manage to communicate that a new CD is out. Then the companies can't get Clear Channel to play the CDs. Even "payola" won't work in these cases.
Maybe McCartney and the Stones, at least, should have copied Prince's lead and included a copy of their new CDs with each concert ticket sold. Considering how much money was frittered away in advertising and promotion for these albums, only to recoup small sales, it wouldn't have been such a bad idea.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172235,00.html
