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Musicology 2004Ever and Bundling Implications Over at the Club, PP9 stated that even though this leg of the tour was almost over, P & the Band could potentially take a few months off and start the whole thing over again (here in the U.S.). This got me to thinking about the implications for the CD bundling thing. I know that the Musicology tour is grandfathered into having Billboard count the CDs that are passed out as sales. But if Prince cuts a new album after this leg of the tour, and begins to pass the new CD out during future Musicology tour shows, would those albums be counted as sales because they would still fall under the umbrella of the Musciology tour exception? Is it the album itself that is grandfathered in or the tour? Could this be the reason that the tour is 2004EVER? Or if it isn't, could this work to Prince's benefit? Can Londell figure out a way to get around this if it is ONLY the album that is grandfathered? Any thoughts?
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It's not the tour that's grandfathered in it's the album "Musicology" that gained the *. So I see no way in which a new album would be allowed to be given away and count as sales.
Maybe Prince should continue to give the albums out for every tour he does for the rest of his life to really jack up the sales  | |
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he can do 1 of 2 things
1) Release another album which has only musicology single on it and the rest of the tracks r brand new and still call it musicology CD 2) Release a collections of 3CDs and anyone buyin that package will get into a free concert!! That way he can go 5 platinum or more!! i think the second idea is more possible he will only count the CD and not be officailly on tour |
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asg said: he can do 1 of 2 things
1) Release another album which has only musicology single on it and the rest of the tracks r brand new and still call it musicology CD 2) Release a collections of 3CDs and anyone buyin that package will get into a free concert!! That way he can go 5 platinum or more!! i think the second idea is more possible he will only count the CD and not be officailly on tour I think I actually like #1. Still the "Musicology" CD, but now it has a ton of new songs on it (with the exception of Musicology). Same packaging and everything. Thinkabout the tizzy that would throw Billboard into.  Filthy cute and baby U know it | |
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Redayh said: asg said: he can do 1 of 2 things
1) Release another album which has only musicology single on it and the rest of the tracks r brand new and still call it musicology CD 2) Release a collections of 3CDs and anyone buyin that package will get into a free concert!! That way he can go 5 platinum or more!! i think the second idea is more possible he will only count the CD and not be officailly on tour I think I actually like #1. Still the "Musicology" CD, but now it has a ton of new songs on it (with the exception of Musicology). Same packaging and everything. Thinkabout the tizzy that would throw Billboard into. hahaha that would b amazing wouldn't it? but @ the same time wouldn't that make peopel think the only reason he sellin so much and is @ the top is cuz he did do that? i dunno i think after this and he does a new album he should let it sell itself. Yesterday is dead...tomorrow hasnt arrived yet....i have just ONE day...
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I think he should give out Musicology every time he goes on tour -- no matter whether some of us have a dozen of them. Stick it to the industry!! I'm all for that. | |
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i already have 24 copies of Musicology....i hope he stops giving them away! | |
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The cd is selling on it's own. And all P has 2 do is the same thing but with the price differential like this...concert tix(floor)w/CD $77.00, without cd $76.00, so on and so on with the upper level tix! Now what tix do u think people r going 2 buy? U,ME,WE!....2FUNKY! | |
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ELBOOGY said: The cd is selling on it's own. And all P has 2 do is the same thing but with the price differential like this...concert tix(floor)w/CD $77.00, without cd $76.00, so on and so on with the upper level tix! Now what tix do u think people r going 2 buy?
I get you, but as I understood it, a cd would only count for sales if the price difference was more than a nominal price. I thought the difference had to be for a price that a cd would sell in a store or close to it. Did I misunderstand? S Filthy cute and baby U know it | |
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Redayh said: ELBOOGY said: The cd is selling on it's own. And all P has 2 do is the same thing but with the price differential like this...concert tix(floor)w/CD $77.00, without cd $76.00, so on and so on with the upper level tix! Now what tix do u think people r going 2 buy?
I get you, but as I understood it, a cd would only count for sales if the price difference was more than a nominal price. I thought the difference had to be for a price that a cd would sell in a store or close to it. Did I misunderstand? S U r totally rite billboard requires u to sell it above a certain price i dont know that price but the billboard person did mention price of about $7 i dont know if he can sell below that I got my full version of Cd from bestbuy for $10 what u get at concert is bare CD with nothing and there r no marketin costs so i think they might not mind $5 But most ppl forget he is sellin out arenas i just saw the tour numbers for jessica simpson and just see how bad they r 6/20 - Alltel Pavilion, Raleigh, N.C.- $113,346- 6,894/20,000 7/18 - Journal Pavilion, Albuquerque, N.M.- $116,105 - 4,932/12,125 7/20 - Universal Lending CityLights Pavilion, Denver, Colo.- $110,264-2,630/4,454 7/21 - USANA Amphitheatre, West Valley City, Utah- $98,522- 4,305/7,000 7/23 - General Motors Place, Vancouver, B.C.- $106,495- 2,986/8,449 7/24 - White River Ampitheatre, Auburn, Wash.- $112,237- 6,691/19,976 7/25 - Ampitheater in Clark County, Ridgefield, Wash.- $109,555- 6,236/17,780 7/27 - Shoreline Ampitheatre, Mountain View, Calif.- $141,856- 6,739/22,000 7/28 - SleepTrain Ampitheatre, Marysville, Calif.- $137,240- 6,219/18,500 [This message was edited Thu Aug 26 18:09:53 2004 by asg] |
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asg said: Redayh said: I get you, but as I understood it, a cd would only count for sales if the price difference was more than a nominal price. I thought the difference had to be for a price that a cd would sell in a store or close to it. Did I misunderstand? S U r totally rite billboard requires u to sell it above a certain price i dont know that price but the billboard person did mention price of about $7 i dont know if he can sell below that I got my full version of Cd from bestbuy for $10 what u get at concert is bare CD with nothing and there r no marketin costs so i think they might not mind $5 But most ppl forget he is sellin out arenas i just saw the tour numbers for jessica simpson and just see how bad they r 6/20 - Alltel Pavilion, Raleigh, N.C.- $113,346- 6,894/20,000 7/18 - Journal Pavilion, Albuquerque, N.M.- $116,105 - 4,932/12,125 7/20 - Universal Lending CityLights Pavilion, Denver, Colo.- $110,264-2,630/4,454 7/21 - USANA Amphitheatre, West Valley City, Utah- $98,522- 4,305/7,000 7/23 - General Motors Place, Vancouver, B.C.- $106,495- 2,986/8,449 7/24 - White River Ampitheatre, Auburn, Wash.- $112,237- 6,691/19,976 7/25 - Ampitheater in Clark County, Ridgefield, Wash.- $109,555- 6,236/17,780 7/27 - Shoreline Ampitheatre, Mountain View, Calif.- $141,856- 6,739/22,000 7/28 - SleepTrain Ampitheatre, Marysville, Calif.- $137,240- 6,219/18,500 [This message was edited Thu Aug 26 18:09:53 2004 by asg] Oh,i did'nt know that.....i'll check deeper in2 it. I hope that it's not more than $10.00 extra! U,ME,WE!....2FUNKY! | |
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