Hypebot Reports
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Hypebot reports:
“Without the help of a single digital download, The Beatles have broken multiple chart records around the world following the 9-9-09 CD release of their digitally re-mastered catalog. In the major music markets of North America, Japan and the UK, consumers purchased more than 2.25 million copies of The Beatles’ re-mastered albums during the first five days of release.”
All well and good, and not surprising in the least, right? But the title of this post is “Who Says CD Sales Are Dead?”, though. Is that really the angle on this story? Or should it be “Who Says the Beatles Are Dead?” (No “Paul is Dead” jokes here.) Doesn’t that first sentence, excerpted above, prove the point? The Beatles, in this latest aural iteration, are only available on CD, so doesn’t it simply stand to reason that their CD sales would be super-high, given that their popularity hasn’t really waned at all over the last 40 years? Shit, I bet they’d sell in the low six-digits on vinyl, if EMI were crazy enough to re-release in that format.
Filed under: industry news
Hypebot seems almost purposefully thickheaded on items like this. It’s hard to take the guy seriously when he writes this stuff as an industry expert.
(He also doesn’t respond to these criticisms, which helps because then you look like a nut for raising the question in the first place.)