From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V10 #177 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Sender: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Friday, September 23 2005 Volume 10 : Number 177 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: The Music and the Message [Nadyne Mielke ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:41:28 -0700 From: Nadyne Mielke Subject: Re: The Music and the Message On 20 Sep 2005, at 20:53, Amanda Bradley wrote: > Yeah, that is unbelievable. Even more astonishing is > the fact that they would even think of shelving Tori's > work. I mean, it's common knowledge that she has a > highly devoted fanbase. So whatever she puts out will > do amazingly well, even without their promotional > efforts. She has a highly devoted fanbase, but it's not really -that- big, certainly not in greedy-label terms. Think back to _Strange Little Girls_. It really didn't do very well. It entered the charts okay (#4 in the US), but it dropped off the charts almost immediately, and it took it more than a year to be certified gold. /nm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:29:48 -0700 From: Brian K Tanaka Subject: Re: The Music and the Message On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 09:41:28PM -0700, Nadyne Mielke boldly wrote: > > On 20 Sep 2005, at 20:53, Amanda Bradley wrote: > > >Yeah, that is unbelievable. Even more astonishing is > >the fact that they would even think of shelving Tori's > >work. I mean, it's common knowledge that she has a > >highly devoted fanbase. So whatever she puts out will > >do amazingly well, even without their promotional > >efforts. > > She has a highly devoted fanbase, but it's not really -that- big, > certainly not in greedy-label terms. .. Right. A lot of talented artists with much to contribute to the human experience have gotten royally screwed to varying degrees by labels because, though they have a loyal fanbase and consistently sell X albums (where X is some largish number), X is less than G (where G is is whatever number the label sets as their greed-inspired lower limit). It's a consequence of treating music soley as a commodity. - - Brian ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V10 #177 **************************************