Haven't heard much lately about the big box retailer that P was supposedly in

final negotiations with. Not a word has been spoken about this even in press

circles. USA Today seems to indicate that the 3 albums will just be released

through his website, at least initailly. Do you think that these final

negotiations fell through, that P has changed his mind about going this route

in conjuction with the website or that this retailer's name is being

secretly withheld by all parties involved.

I would think P would want some distribution other than his site because only

fams and an undetermined portion of the rest of the audience would buy the

cds through his site. What do you think is going on?

At least two orgers know which retailer will be stocking the CDs.

Seventeen said:

Hopefully not Circuit City.

Wasn't CC bust?
Also: the world is bigger than just the USA.
And: Can we entrust online ordering and mailing out several thousands of items to Prince? Did we forget the CB fiasco?

You leave my Box

Alone.

Time will tell.

T A R G E T

xenophobia2002 said:

mcdonalds

Maybe he could hand Copy's out while doing his j.w rounds!

purpleparty3000 said:

And when he comes to my door, I'll ask him to autograph it too!!!

CandaceS said:

Just don't ask him to pose for a picture with it.

The Target logo will appear iN about 2 weeks.

DetroitMusic said:

would that be target worldwide

Target? Great - that's 5% of the world's population catered for. That only leaves out the two hundred and odd other countries where there are no Target stores.

Prince does not have any record company affiliation, so assuming Target has the

exclusive to sell his albums, how does he get his songs to radio (if that was

his intention)?

DetroitMusic said:

Thanks for the info. Will look out for it.

PopeLeo said:[quote]Target? Great - that's 5% of the world's population catered for. That only leaves out the two hundred and odd other countries where there are no Target stores.


I'm sure he has thought about that and has plans for distribution in other

countries. There aren't even any Target stores in Canada, at least not on the

west coast. If I'm not mistaken, even Toronot and Montreal don't have stores.
[Edited 2/4/09 16:55pm]

Seventeen said:

I hope you're right - selling things over the web has never been P's strong point. But the world sometimes seems to end at the borders of the US.

Being European, I can't resist the odd mocking stereotype:

That map is hilarious. Unfortunately, lots of people see it that way.

kangaroos

Evil Drugs and Coffee
haaha

yummy


eye wanna go there


7

That map is crazy.

I speculate:
Target for the obvious reason that it is a Mpls company. It would be logical that the store would like to try something like the Walmart + AC/DC experiment. Target is a good choice for US distribution. 2nd to Walmart but not steeped in pubic dislike... Plus Target has the Prince fragrance...

luckybullet said:

Best Buy is also Minneapolis based, founded in St. Paul in 1966 as "Sound Of Music"..

xenophobia2002 said:

And Hema for the Kingdom of the Netherlands?

That map misses the convergence of (foreign) Oil and Baddies by a magnitude.

PopeLeo said:

The folks in Hawaii and Vermont are out of luck, too! No Targets there! However, Target is in Australia!

Wait a minute, there really isn't any company
that distributes Worldwide, is there?

He might have to pick a few distributors to hit
the four corners of the world, no?

Amazon?