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Originally Posted by Jondalar
Billboard by Keith Caulfield, Los Angeles | May 10, 2013 8:30 AM EDT
http://www.billboard.com/biz/article...rling-hits-new
-- Fleetwood Mac, "Extended Play" (EP) (No. 48): After a 10 year wait, Fleetwood Mac has returned to the Billboard 200 chart with a new studio album. The legendary band's Extended Play (EP) bows at No. 48, selling 9,000 copies in its first week.
This isn't about the SYW question -- but, yikes. 9,000 copies? At $4 a pop, that's $36,000, of which the band will get about $20,000. For a legacy act like FM, sales almost always drop off after the first week. $20,000 in an album's biggest week might be nice for a young indie band, but for Mac it's tantamount to no income at all. With numbers like that, what would the incentive be for them to continue recording? (I don't think Lindsey cares about the money, but it's clear from her recent comments that Stevie does -- and it appears she's right that people don't care enough to buy their songs anymore.) |
Has less to do with people not wanting it and more to do with people not knowing it exists. I've been playing the EP through my iPod in my store I manage since its release and every day I have
at least a few people ask me or my employee's if that's new Mac material thats being played and why and how the material 'snuck out' and if it was available for purchase yet. Radio isn't picking it up, there's no real promotion unless you find out about it the night you see them on tour (if you
are seeing them this go around) and thus far it's only been on iTunes and now Amazon with no physical release set in stone yet. Not to mention it's released through them so there were no online ads, no commercials, no television/radio promotion deals, nothing of the likes they had with Say You Will's release. That's the problem. They self released an EP with no promotion and limited availability. As excited as I was for this new music, those are about the numbers I was expecting. With the age of the internet, the majority of music-buyers don't hunt down music, they buy what they hear that they like. The problem is, unless you know for a fact it's on iTunes or Amazon or whatever, you're not hearing it unless you see them live. There lies the problem.