From: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org (jewel-digest) To: jewel-digest@smoe.org Subject: jewel-digest V7 #98 Reply-To: jewel@smoe.org Sender: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jewel-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jewel-digest Sunday, March 10 2002 Volume 07 : Number 098 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe from this digest, send an email to * jewel-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY the word * unsubscribe in the BODY of the email * . * For the latest news on what Jewel is up to, go to * the OFFICIAL Jewel web site at http://www.jeweljk.com * and click on "calendar" * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: jewel-digest V6 #xxx or the like gives fellow list readers * no clue as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- [EDA] Frustrated w/Tour Plans!!! ["now and zen girl" ] [EDA] Touring, and tickets ["Stacey Hamilton" ] [EDA] Jewel Tour [JeWeLsTaR386@aol.com] Re: [EDA] Frustrated w/Tour Plans!!! ["Chris Groves" ] [EDA] NJC: Music industry killing off the single [Mike Connell ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:16:18 +0000 From: "now and zen girl" Subject: [EDA] Frustrated w/Tour Plans!!! you guys complaining about the tour plans really need to calm down. we have been told over and over again that these are not ALL the dates! i mean no tour is final till she comes to san fransisco. we have to wait and be patient. for goodness sake they havent even put up ticket prices yet. be patient you guys. alisa - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. Click Here ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:21:20 +0000 From: "now and zen girl" Subject: [EDA] jewel live i totally agree with everyone who is saying that any jewel live album would be great. no matter what the songs are on it. old, new, on albums, whatever. cus the whole point is just getting the experience of hearing jewel live. and boy what an experience that is! i definately think that if they are going to make a live jewel album they must include all the stuff in between the songs. cus i just know that they would cut out all the "jewel comedy routine". it must have her talking and being so absolutely hilarious between songs, and talking during songs, and having fans on stage, and talking to the fans in the audience... it must have all of it, the full jewel experience! that would be so neat. alisa - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: Click Here ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 00:47:29 -0700 From: "Stacey Hamilton" Subject: [EDA] Touring, and tickets 1. It was announced awhile back that the ticket on-sale dates would be given on jeweljk.com Regardless of what some may be seeing now wherever, this would be your best source for accurate info. There's no point in speculating anything about it until the dates are listed on her website. Whether they all go on sale the same time or not, how much they are, how soon they will sell out, all these things have way too many variables to consider at this point in time. Just be patient and one day you'll see the dates appear on her website, then you'll all know. Whether a specific show sells out or not depends on the venue size, the fanbase in that area, and MANY other factors. There's really no good way to know for sure. If you want to be sure to get a ticket then just buy one the first day, or even the first hour after they go on sale. 2. Jewel has little to no control over where she tours. It's not her fault if she is only doing one Canadian show, or 3 shows in FL, or 4 in England. Just be happy she's even touring at all! Drive 10 hours if you have to, or drive to another country, or drive 10 minutes. If you REALLY want to see her, you will. There's no point in complaining about her schedule though. It's been established, and it's not going to change at all, or at least not of any significance most likely. So just plan to see whatever shows you can, if any, and work around the fact that they may or may not be remotely close to your area. Most importantly, please stop all the whining! That's all I've seen on the list the past couple weeks and it's getting really old. ~Stacey~ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 03:02:03 EST From: JeWeLsTaR386@aol.com Subject: [EDA] Jewel Tour I live in Oneonta,Alabama and I'm going to the concert in Atlanta, Georgia its like so many hours im not exactly sure, but I wasn't expecting her to come back to Alabama, last year there was a lot of empty seats, and I forget how but I heard she wasn't coming back. Anyway, im so glad that she's even touring, i mean really we should appreciate her music rather than get mad she isn't coming to our state or whatever else there is to whine about...Im just really glad to see that she has another CD, and she is touring now. and im really excitied to see her in concert yayyyyyyyyyyy lol now if i can only be sure ill get tickets! ~The *Dixie* Angel~ ~*~mIcHeLLe M.~*~ Listen to Jewel Break Me Here http://www2.fanscape.com/jewel/emails/breakmefriend.html Don't ever give away what you can't take back-Jewel ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 12:45:31 -0000 From: "Chris Groves" Subject: Re: [EDA] Frustrated w/Tour Plans!!! > I don't want to get into the big arguement we had before on this list about > the whole Canadian thing, but once again - she's playing *one* date in > Canada. On the other hand, she's playing 4 in England (and she just > finished a show there) etc. etc. and like the last time, again, it's just Sorry but they've just announced a fifth date in England. > Personally, I just don't 'get' the person who obviously makes these > plans.... I've been searching on the net to see if I could find some > reliable info re: international record sales, but I can't find anything > that's either up to date, or even lists Jewel - according to the IFPI site > that keeps track of international sales, Jewel has never even been certified > Platinium at *all* for *any* of her albums in Europe, and we know that's > bull, so as I said, no reliable info. I would assume (which isn't always That's not bull, Jewel has NEVER had a platinum album in Europe. > the greatest thing, but that's all I have to go on right now, so please > don't bitch at me if I'm wrong hehe) that she does fairly well with sales in > Canada - what I'd like to see is some comparisons re: her canadian sales vs > uk sales etc, compared with percentage of population in the countries etc. > (which I was going to do, if I could find the info) just to see if they are > basing it on record sales at all. I might be completely wrong, (and don't > beat me if I am) but I'd assume that she sells slightly better in Canada > than in Britain...maybe someone from the UK, or who has more time to spend > finding reliable info could let us know. I still get to see her regardless, > so I'm more just curious than anything :) I'm not sure about actual sales but I think Jewel's first two albums have both been certified multi-platinum in Canada. Jewel has had no albums certified in the UK (platinum, gold or silver). Pieces Of You has never charted in the UK, Spirit managed one week in the UK album charts, and hopefully today This Way will achieve the miracle of spending two weeks in the charts. Perhaps they want Jewel to tour more in Europe in order to sell more albums. Chris. http://www.jewelfan.co.uk : Jewel - Pieces Of UK http://www.jewelfan.co.uk/wap/index.wml : Jewel news on your mobile phone ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:53:35 EST From: JeWeLsTaR386@aol.com Subject: [EDA] i have the answer to all your probs Ok The answer to all the tour date probs! I'll just be Jewel's new tour manager and tour with Jewel! and yall can tell me where yall want her to go..lol..yea right i wish! I'm watching Jewel's video collection right now its good!! its back on so gosta go! bye - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --------------------------------- ~Love *mIcHeLLe*~ Listen to Jewel Break Me Here http://www2.fanscape.com/jewel/emails/breakmefriend.html Don't ever give away what you can't take back-Jewel ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 00:35:22 -0800 (PST) From: Christy Subject: [EDA] Concert Questions I have some questions concerning Jewel in concert. I saw her once before, in Indianapolis in 1997, but I have some questions regarding things I've read on the list, etiquette, etc... I posted once before asking about taking pictures at Jewel's concerts and recording them... I was told this was a big no-no. However, almost all of the veteran EDA's have Angel food, and there have been quite a few people posting their pictures of Jewel's European concerts. How do so many get away with this? Also, I thought Jewel wanted her fans to be able to enjoy here live shows even if they couldn't attend them??? What are some tips for trying to meet Jewel? I'm really hoping that I might get to meet her, since my friend and I will probably one of the very few Americans in the Tokyo crowd. I'm hoping that will intrigue Jewel. But where do you go to try to meet her? How can you find out about PR stuff she might be doing while in town? Etiquette for autographs?? I guess that's it. Any information you guys can give me would be great! 20 days until I fly to Tokyo for the concert!! :) Christy the Tattoed angel ===== "Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom." -- Jewel Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 09:11:21 -0500 From: Mike Connell Subject: [EDA] NJC: Music industry killing off the single This certainly can be regarded as the reason Standing Still and now Break Me were not released as a single in North America (whereas most, if not all, of Jewel's previous releases were). - Mike **************************************** Whatever happened to the single? Unpopular with record companies, unknown by many record buyers NEW YORK (AP) -- The first time you entered a music store, chances are it was because there was one song you had to have. Maybe it was "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by the Beatles, or Marvin Gaye's "I Heard it Through the Grapevine." Perhaps you obsessed over "Night Fever" by the Bee Gees, "Hungry Like the Wolf" by Duran Duran or 'N Sync's "Bye Bye Bye." These days, finding that song -- without buying many more you don't want -- is becoming increasingly difficult. The music industry is killing off the single. Once the backbone of the business, singles sales totaled 31 million last year, down a whopping 41 percent from 2000, according to Soundscan. It's believed to be the lowest sales figure since the late 1940s, when singles were introduced on vinyl. Singles aren't even made for many of the most popular songs because music companies think they're so unprofitable. Among Billboard magazine's 40 most popular songs the week of February 23, only five were available as singles on compact disc. Eighteen were on sale just as vinyl records. Seventeen songs, including Creed's "My Sacrifice," No Doubt's "Hey Baby," Enrique Iglesias' "Hero" and Alanis Morissette's "Hands Clean," were only available if you bought a full album. Record retailers complain this alienates fans, particularly young ones, by forcing them to spend more than they want or -- worse yet -- retrieve songs online. "I think they're losing a whole generation of record buyers," said Carl Rosenbaum, chief executive of Top Hits, a Buffalo Grove, Illinois, company that supplies music to 15,000 stores nationwide. "You either have to steal it off the Internet or you just don't buy it at all," he said. "The other option is to buy a full CD for $18. If you're just introducing yourself to an act, you don't want to do that. It's hard to figure out what their thinking is." Music executives, in turn, blame retailers for discounting singles so heavily it's impossible to make money. "We can't work it out," said Val Azzoli, co-chairman of the Atlantic Group of record labels. "We're not an industry that works together." ** Debate about influence If the single dies altogether, the beginning of the end can be traced a decade back to the start of Soundscan, which provided the first precise measurements of music sales. Executives who long suspected that singles cut into sales of the more profitable full-length CDs now had evidence to back that up, said Jordan Katz, senior vice president of sales at Arista Records. There's some debate about the extent to which that's true, though. Bob Higgins, chief executive of the Albany, New York-based Trans World Entertainment, which owns 950 music stores, said he believes singles hurt album sales in only about 15 percent of the cases. Nickelback's "Silver Side Up" album is currently in the top 10, seemingly unhurt by the CD single for the song "How You Remind Me." And Santana sold boatloads of its most recent album despite a succession of singles, he said. In the late 1990s, there was a brief period when record companies put singles by singers like Mariah Carey on sale for a money-losing 49 cents, artificially boosting sales to secure flashy chart debuts. To avoid manipulations of its charts, Billboard changed the way it computed the Top 40 to reflect radio airplay as well as sales. Therefore, it was possible to have a hit "single" without a song ever being released as a single. CD singles, which usually have two or three songs, generally retail for between $3 and $4. Many retailers routinely discount them by 50 percent or more, Azzoli said. And there are still music companies that encourage this by secretly giving singles away to retailers to inflate sales, he said. "If I could get $5 a single and sell a million of them, hey, there's a business there," Azzoli said. ** Vinyl nostalgia The demise of the single means more of music's romance is disappearing, just like when colorful album covers were replaced by tiny CD booklets. In a song being released this spring, Elvis Costello waxes nostalgic about collecting stacks of 45s (a phrase already consigned to history, since it refers to the number of revolutions a 7-inch disc made each minute on a turntable). "Nine-year-old puts his money down," he sings. "Every scratch, every click, every heartbeat. Every breath that I held for you." Music companies recognize the danger, but "their short-term motivation is to get as much profit as possible," said Ed Christman, retail editor at Billboard. "The fact that young kids aren't buying records is a long-term worry." It's not easy to find the section where singles are sold at the Virgin megastore in New York's Times Square. Walk past the display of top albums, go down the escalator and wander to the dance section in a back corner. It's close to where Jeannie Imperati of North Haven, Connecticut, was grumbling one recent day when she took her 15-year-old son shopping. "I'll spend $100 on CDs just so he can get one song out of each of them," she said. Her friend, John Cas, said he found the lack of choices in the singles section frustrating. "Most of the CDs have only one good song out of a dozen," he said. "At 18 or 20 bucks a pop, you want to be able to enjoy the whole CD." The space that music stores used to devote to singles is dwindling, or disappearing altogether. One worry for Rosenbaum's Top Hits is that the chains he supplies with music, like Eckerd Drugs, may simply use the space for non-music products. Now he's distributing golf balls as well as music. At Arista, Katz is sensitive to concerns on both sides and is among executives experimenting with ways to make more singles available, though maybe not in the way many consumers would want. In some cases, singles are made available before an album's release but pulled from stores when the album comes out. Arista also makes singles for songs after they have cooled off as a hit. Pink's "Get the Party Started," currently in Billboard's Top 10, isn't a CD single now but may be in a couple of months. Labels are also experimenting more with so-called maxi-singles. They may contain five or six songs -- often different remixes of the same song -- and are sold for between $7 and $8. The cost of manufacturing them are similar to regular singles, so profits are higher. Some artists also release DVD singles with a video included with the music. "We have to get kids in the habit of buying music," Katz said. "I'm trying to figure out innovative ways to have singles and albums co-exist." - - The Associated Press. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 15:29:14 +0100 From: Philip Jeromin Subject: [EDA] Jewel "live" on German radio Hi there! Just wanted to let you know that German radio station NDR2 has scheduled a Jewel performance as part of their "radio concert" series. It'll be broadcast on April 15. No further details yet but I presume that it'll be from her performance at the Schauspielhaus (an old theater!) here in Hamburg on Feb. 13. I also think that it's not gonna be the complete show. The broadcasts are usually within the 60-90 minute range. You can check here http://www.ndr2.de/musik/radiokonzert/index.html for details as they become available. I plan to record the show and burn it to CD-R... If anyone's interested in trading... I'm very new to this Digest and don't have any Jewel boots so far but I plan to change that! =) If you are interested in a trade you can mail me offlist. Any suggestions about Jewel boots (essentials, must-haves etc.) are welcome, too! Later, Phil ------------------------------ End of jewel-digest V7 #98 **************************