Went into HMV today and noticed in their big display of the Top 40 singles, Musicology was at No. 13. This is probably based on HMV's in-store sales, not those from all stores nationwide as the ARIA chart is yet to come out for this week. Either way, it's good news! Good to see it's selling despite that bizarre cover...

That's good news, the single is #9 at sanity. Am very curious to see how it charts on monday.
[This message was edited Thu Apr 22 4:28:57 2004 by NEFRETIRI]

In store charts are bullshit, they in no way reflect sales (on the other hand, I guess ARIA is the same). They're designed to "push" certain units.

As much as I would like for it 2 do well, the single is selling SLOW at my work. Since Sunday to Thursday, 10 copies of the single were sold, 3 of those sales were from me, 2 were from another retailer putting the single into their shop, and when u consider it's school holidays when alot more teens are going to shops, they're overlooking it as a purchase. (They are buying D12's "My Band" single in droves).

I really hope it does well and i think whatever the single charts on this first week is crucial to how it will perform in the next few weeks, so let's wait and see

dnaplaya said:

Really, so the aria charts are crap? I want to know how it all works, what wreka stow u work at?
[This message was edited Thu Apr 22 5:11:34 2004 by NEFRETIRI]

NEFRETIRI said:

Sure, record companies use all sorts of tricks to get their CD's on chart, for example (lets take a company like BMG for example) people who work for that company go into record stores and buy EVERY copy of their artists stock back. The $ from the sale goes back to them, so they don't lose out. It works, and effects sales. An example like this one above was used on the pushing of the Australian Idol various artists CD late last year to give u an idea.

Other dodgy ways are recording the amount of CD's that left the warehouse as sales instead of actual sales, companies offering stores and staff products, trips, etc to 'fudge' sales and product placment in stores, all sorts of things

dnaplaya said:

Cool, thanks for that info. Do you think Columbia would do something like this for P's new album??

Anything is possible, maybe if they got alot riding on it, no doubt. But in a way I kinda hope that they do because if it puts interest back into Prince, we may see the tour come back to Australia