Did not find any post about this but I am sure u all hered about the Facebook > Rage Aaginst the Machine > Simone Cowell > UK #1 upset.....if not see link below.

I was curious.....how/could something like this work in favor of Prince....(radio/charts-- more singles then cd's).


http://www.google.com/hos...wD9COK38O0

Facebook, Schmacebook. You can thank e/b/aumsworld for this.

http://prince.org/msg/8/326046
http://prince.org/msg/8/326213
http://prince.org/msg/8/326640

And it's "than", not "then". Just sayin'.
[Edited 12/25/09 19:04pm]

I think you guys need to realize that Prince suffers from a phobia against any profitable marketing strategy.

Harlepolis said:

I realized that 5 years ago lol

Harlepolis said:

This just seems like a stunt that nobody in Rage Against the Machine came up with, and probably didn't know about until it was almost over.

They could've chosen any song.

Harlepolis said:

Man Tom Morello sounds pretentious with his comments. "Liberate" the charts?

rainman1985 said:

Tell me about it. What a dick.

Paris9748430 said:

Stunt or not,,,,,the cold blooded fact remains that they generated alot of intrest and in result hit a pot of gold(Prince's main ojbective) which is more than I could say about him these days.
[Edited 12/26/09 3:18am]

Harlepolis said:

U can do this with anything, if U get enough of HATE towards one thing you can pull it off and thats what it really was in the end, im sure on both sides people were buying 20 copies just to make a point, adn could care less about either song. I mean they did this with DISCO in 1980, people hated it so much that they took over a baseball stadium and blew up records and set them on fire, i mean RADIO stations had "BeeGee Free Weekends" organized by radio people, could U imagine if someone TRIED that shit today on Beyonce or someone who has the monopoly, it would never happen because someone has to get paid, and thats why nothing was made of this RAGE vs COWELL incident (except here) because sony raked in $$ as did both parties, including Facebook, and advertisers etc...so the rich got richer

GirlBrother said:

What about it sounds pretentious? He is just stating the fact that people made the difference and downloaded an 18 year old Rage song instead of the same old overproduced cookie cutter music machine shit that Cowell represents. I think it's just great! I guess that makes me a dick to.