I bet the writer doesn't even remember what the album sounded like, if he ever listened to it. He just knows that it didn't sell, so that means DUD.
As for the successful tour that the article mentioned, here's a list of the top grossing 2003 tours. Translated from Spanish by Babelfish. I'm surprised that Cher is up there with the big groups:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr?lp...tml?cid=345166
The 50 richer artists of the 2003
The Manna boys will not be friends of Sting, as they wanted to be conceited in his day, but now have with what shutting up to the ridicules. The quartet is elbowed with the Rolling, It brushes Springsteen, and both gentlemen of Great Britain, Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Elton John in a list #. Manna occupies place 44 in the 50 musicians who more money did in the 2003, according to publishes the magazine Rolling Stone. And this time there is no Sting that clears importance.
1. The Rolling Stones, $84,1 million
In 2002, when the tour of Forty Licks began, the Rolling occupied number two in this list. What put to them in the head? Just like it managed to put to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in the cover of the Fortune magazine: a tour that sold $212 million entrances, special in television and much publicity. More than three million people they attended the concerts.
2. Brush Springsteen, $81,7 million
Most of the rock bands they contract a promoter to be guaranteed a gain, and soon they share the total. Springsteen no. A seventy percent made sure the total gains if all the entrances were sold in each concert. In addition, its spectacle is austere, it does not use expensive special effects, and the public spent much money in merchandise.
3, Eagles, $62,9 million
The last year they demanded a guarantee of gain of $750.000 by concert, this year increased to $1 million, and the cost of its entrances raised in $20. In addition, they received an advance of $10 million by its Great package of Exitos.
4, Dixie Chicks, $39,8 million
Natalie Maines criticized to president Bush in England and a group of nationalists called to sabotage of the band and his discs. It did not work. Each one of its concerts in EU left gains of $1 million. In addition, the Chicks demanded to Sony by lack of payments of 20 million of albumes that already had sold and this year they sold 6 million more of his new album, Home.
5, Metallica, $39,1 million
6, Toby Keith, $38,7 million
7, Bon Jovi, $36,1 million
8, Shania Twain, $36,1 million
9, Simon and Garfunkel, $35,8 million
10, Cher, $33,8 million
11, Celine Dion, $33,1 million
12, Fleetwood Mac, $32,5 million
13, Robbie Williams, $32,5 million
14, Christina Eyrie, $27,9 million
15, Jennifer Lopez, $29,1 million
16, Dave Matthews, $27,3 million
17, Jimmy Buffett, $25,8 million
18. Hoist Cube, $25,7 million
19, The Beatles, $25,6 million
20, Norah Jones, $25,6 million
21, Justin Timberlake, $24,7 million
22, Elton John, $24,6 million
23, Coldplay, $23,7 million
24, Queen Latifah, $23,3 million
25, Aerosmith, $22,5 million
26. Kiss, $22,1 million
27, Kenny Chesney, $21,9 million
28, Eminem, $20,8 million
29, Yanni, $20,5 million
30, James Taylor, $20 million
31, Phish, $19,4 million
32, Dr Dre, $18,6 million
33, John Mayer, $17,1 million
34. 50 Cent, $16,9 million
35, Tim McGraw, $16,7 million
36, R. Kelly, $14,4 million
37, Matchbox Twenty, $14 million
38, P. Diddy, $13,9 million
39, Billy Joel, $13,8 million
40, Brooks and Dunn, $13,6 million
41, Network Hot Chili Peppers, $13,4 million
42, Pearl Jam, $13,4 million
43, Paul McCartney, $13,3 million
44. He flows, $12,1 million
Rolling Stone reports that the tour that Manna did by the United States in the 2003 recovered $10 million in sales.
45, The Dead, $11,4 million
46, Bill Gaither, $11,2 million
47, The Osbournes, $10,3 million
48, Trans Siberian Orchestra, $10,3 million
49, Radiohead, $10 million
50, Eros Ramazotti, $10 million