Latest Billboard album sales

[blinker12]

So "Street Angel" shipped 500,000 copies but only sold 226,000? That would mean that there are hundreds of thousands of copies of the CD just lying around on store shelves?

[jwd]

blinker12:
So "Street Angel" shipped 500,000 copies but only sold 226,000? That would mean that there are hundreds of thousands of copies of the CD just lying around on store shelves?

Maybe that's why you can find it at BMG for $2.99 a pop in their clearance cds section.

Oh and I think Lindsey's OOTC is going for $1.99!


Joe

[hayley]

Excess product is returned by stores to the record company after a certain period of time, and they generally get all or most of their money back. Letting stores return product is one of the only ways to get them to be willing to take a chance on new artists or something that isn't a guaranteed sell.

Most of the time after being returned, the record company's plants can somehow recycle old discs and jewel cases. We send back boxes and boxes of unused product every week to the plant.