RODSERLING said:

Mumio said:

My understanding is that it's not available due to a plagiarism lawsuit over the song in Italy.

The big companies like WB and Sony aren't going to work for free for any artist to release music. The estate can't afford to do freebies either given the tax issues and PP maintenance. The heirs won't do so either. It all business for them, none of them created the music so they don't have that same investment in it that Prince did. It's all about the money, as is the case with most everything. I am not villifying any of them for that, this is the world we live in.

[Edited 10/2/18 15:10pm]

You are not Alone was never banned from streaming, digital and physical format because of the plagiarism lawsuit. Why would Sony do that? It s all about authorship, and the label has nothing to do with that. . So this is not about freebies at all since there is no question that Prince estate won t make money out of TMBGITW. Prince wrote the lyrics for instance, and some parts of the music. . If it were all About the miney, the estate (whoever it could be) and WB would have signed an agreement in the days following his death in order to make money fast, and see howit goes After. . If it were all About the money, they would n't have waste more than a year to release PR deluxe (Without the first avenue live!) .

Well, I seem to be losing the train of thought here but that's fine because I don't have anything more to add really. I do think things are more complicated though when speaking about how business dealings are handled when an estate is in probate (and very complicated and extensive to boot)-but I'm not a lawyer either so can't speak to the specifics on that

[Edited 10/2/18 21:25pm]

RODSERLING said:

#9 in the Global charts with 59.000 sales + streaming. 62℅ of its sales thanks to the USa and the Uk.

Physical sales = 59.000 ?

thanx

quite happy with these figures. It's an old demo of Prince at the piano from decades ago. It will be in the catalogue & sell across the years albeit in smaller quanitites. This is a hard core fans release that many of us had already so the exposure through endless promo in the last 2 weeks will have hopefully given the rest of his catalogue a boost?

Curious to see how other similar packages from other artists sell ie Hendrix legacy releases etc.

jaawwnn said:

feeluupp said:

That's actually a little lower than expected to be honest, it deff will drop dramatically by the second week.

out of interest, how many did you expect and how did you get to that figure?

compared to PR DELUXE numbers it sold 51,000 just in the U.S. alone for it's first week sales, grandfather some original purple rain sales into that figure which is unknown, but piano and a microphone sold a little low for world wide numbers.

After debuting at #12 last week, the album has fallen out of the Top 100 Albums chart in the UK this week.

US Week 2

Top Album Sales #20

JudasSmile said:

After debuting at #12 last week, the album has fallen out of the Top 100 Albums chart in the UK this week.

this happends to all artists

Billboard US Vinyl Sales

15 Piano & A Microphone 1983 - Prince

17 Purple Rain (Soundtrack) - Prince And The Revolution

Physical sales are great

RODSERLING said:

luvsexy4all said:

this happends to all artists

Absolutely not, not for a new release. Losing more than 88 ranks the second week is rather Unusual, and Will make the next Guiness book lol

For a non-commericial release without constent radio play-it is not.