'Heavy metal' band Metallica have swooped to the top of the US album chart with their first new release in six years, 'St. Anger'. It has sold the very scarily-large amount of 418,000 copies in its first week.
It seems that the Americans are currently likin' their rawk. Last week, Led Zeppelin were No.1, and the week before that it was Staind, and before that horrible band it was Marilyn Manson.
Meanwhile back here in the UK, Radiohead surprise nobody by getting their newie, 'Hail To The Thief', to No.1. It has sold, ooh, like loads of copies too.
The singles chart looks suitable horrible as usual with Evanescence staying put at the top slot, while poor ol' Darius only manages to get in at No.21, and "most worshipped band in the world" (according to some music magazine), AFI, show us that No.22 is the number you reach when you're that worshipped. Great.
Metallica and Radiohead Sell Lots Of Records 'Shocker'
Scarily large number.
And you'd think you could at least have a number for Radiohead's.
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disasters in formatting/pricing
Charts Should Reflect Internet Sales
Re: Charts Should Reflect Internet Sales
Whats wrong with giving a real person a real ten pound note for a real CD? This way she/he can put real food on his/her real table to feed his/her real family.
Do you think it is okay to give money to a faceless multi-national (quite literally) when you could support local business?
Re: Charts Should Reflect Internet Sales
I stand to be corrected on this, but so far as I know, Amazon isn't owned by anybody, Audiostreet is part of WHSmith/OurPrice , and therefore Kingfisher Group, and CDWOW I haven't got a clue about. There is no 'local' record shop near me that is open at 11pm when I often get home from work, and usually when I order it online it's on my doorstep in under 24 hours.
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My main local is just a wee one-shop company. Just the other day I got Vertigo of Bliss by Biffy Clyro (it’s very good) on its first day of release for £9.99. That left me enough for a penny sweet. So, my advice (should you want it) would be to your local shop. You might save some money, you will help local people and music and you might even find a new friend.
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It aint the web that closed down record shops. It's people like MVC with their agressive cost cutting and supermarkets doing cds stoopidly cheap. This not just devalues cds, but undercuts local shops, especially indies, by quite a lot. I used to work for a little chain and within 6months of MVC opening up near each of their shops, the shops couldn't afford to exist anymore.
People don't respect these business until their gone and you realise its hard to buy hard to find cds, and impossible to get singles, cus as far as i know, a lot of these big chains dont even bother selling singles.
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Re: Charts Should Reflect Internet Sales
Having said that, I do support online stores that are indie and cheap. If you look around you should never spend more than £8 on a CD.
NOBODY CARES ABOUT THE CHARTS ANYMORE.
NOTE TO DIS: STOP REPORTING THEM. THEY DON'T MATTER
Re: Charts Should Reflect Internet Sales
example: i've been trying to get red animal war's album. £14.99 in hmv, not far off that at amazon [and when i ordered it, the dumb fucks screwed up the order, so scratch amazon], not found it anywhere else [checked vinylexchange, opalmusic and the extortionate maprecords].
any places you online could recommend?
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they are going through a name change as we speak. but that address should still work for a while. Red Animal War will set you back £8.50
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If you aren't interested in reading about the charts then DON'T READ IT. Simple!