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Artist:
Prince

Feb 12, 2010 06:02 pm
0% 0 Currently Charting
199Billboard 200»
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Last week's position16

Weeks on chart2

Peak37R&B/Hip-Hop Albums»
40

Last week's position35

Weeks on chart1

Peak25Independent Albums»
30

Last week's position24

Weeks on chart1

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ernestsewell said:

at least people took advantage of it and bought it. it was a one-off set that made prince and target some money.

I would like to know how many copies have sold

dance4me3121 said:

The album has sold 403,335 units at year's end according to Soundscan.

I would think by now, it's at about 420,000 at most. Not Gold quite yet.

ernestsewell said:

still not bad considering it was only released through target

cream72 said:

yes and no promo videos or singles to go with it.

woop-de-doo.

Next project please.
[Edited 2/21/10 12:22pm]

I was just in Target to pick up Sade's album, and saw the Lotus cd under new releases.

dance4me3121 said:

Homework.

There were two promotional videos. "Chocolate Box" with Q-Tip, and "Crimson and Clover".

There was also a big TV advert commercial campaign with "Dreamer", and print campaign with ads in papers, and in store promotions. There's still a still from the "Dreamer" commercial over the video section at my local Target.

He also performed on Jay Leno 3 times, Ellen once, and a few other appearances.

So yeah, there was promotion.

Singles are a dead medium.

those videos barely got any airplay

plus they were cheap as hell.

i dont know if i would consider that "promotion"

minneapolisFunq said:

barely? I didn't realize they got ANY, outside of people who paid for the website.

lezama said:

They showed up on other sites for free eventually, and were previewed in sections on different shows.

i saw chocolate box once or twice.

i think it was on BET actually.

ernestsewell said:

That is amazing for being released at only one store chain. Just amazing...That is a hit album with no radio play......

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

well you know in these parts if you don't sell a million you're a flop.

Fury said:[quote]

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

well you know in these parts if you don't sell a million you're a flop. [/quot


In these parts they don't know an independent artist pockets all the profits. Prince already made over a million just from that alone.....

isnt it 400000 x 3 because its a tripple scam like emancipation .. tha man is platinum right?

ernestsewell said:

homework? i knew about the 2 promotional videos,were they shown on MTV and BET ,NO! just think how many copies wouldve sold if They played The chocolate box video and Dreamer on radio.

dance4me3121 said:

But you said "...and no promo videos...to go with it", so I was stating there were two videos, plus a pseudo-video w/ the commercial.

ernestsewell said:

Yeah, but the word "PROMO" suggests some airplay, dont you think?

Soulstar77A said:

if there was airplay i didnt see it. Im talking about airplay that gets into heavy rotation,not just shown every now and then.

dance4me3121 said:

Ask Target

dance4me3121 said:

Yes that's waht i meant as well. I'm on your side! Sorry, my post was misleading i guess...

ernestsewell said:

Sure - but no one saw those videos except people who already buy everything Prince releases because you had to be on Lotusflow3r to see them - or be some kind of internet geek who lives in cyber world enough to download them illegally.

The Leno performances probably did the most to promote it - but even national TV performances dont have the impac tof being on the music television channels and the radio. THat is where records are sold and new Prince material is not present in those channels at all.

some of you complains about the lack of promotion, ok, but try to be danish - the LF set wasn't even released in Europe... and Target wouldn't sell it over the internet.

It was like Prince and LF didn't even happened, and only very few reviews, (1 danish afaik).... Prince used to be reviewed by the whole press, I used to enjoy reading those.

I hope the next release will be better promoted, and released on a big company.

Soulstar77A said:

Promo is just a word. There were videos. If no station picked them up, then that's the station's decisions, I suppose. I'm not sure a black station gives a shit about a cover of "Crimson and Clover", opposed to something like "U're Gonna C Me", which would have been a better single for urban or pop radio.

This week: this week sales ---- Last week sales-

199 PRINCE LOTUS FLOW3R 3,929 -- 2,666

Now 415,829

thedance said:

I agree with u and live in sweden. Lotusflow3r is a great album that should have been released worldwide with some good promotion. I was wery disapointed with the way it was released.

ernestsewell said:

I think singles are only a dead medium because nobody bothers to make them a cool thing anymore. You know... exclusive artwork, maybe an unreleased song or two packaged with it, and CHEAP. Poor people and teenage kids without jobs like to be able to buy something every once in a while too you know...
I know LotusFlower is only 5 dollars or whatever, but sometimes that 99 cent 7" or even cassette or cd single is just what you want. I feel like singles started sucking right about the time the cd was released. Like the record companies just stopped caring about quality control on singles. All the good singles (nice art, actual B-sides)were suddenly 10 dollar imports and the domestic singles were like 5 or 6 bucks for one song and maybe a shitty remix...