purplethunder3121 said:

I think it is more than mere luck...

G3000 said:

Graycap23 said:

Is it any good?

I'm not saying it's good or bad...they are just interpretations of old songs...songs that I'm happy to hear in its original form...not country-fied remakes.

Just because you add a steel guitar and a twang in your voice...doesn't make it a country song.

If Lionel were to make a "country" album of original songs..I would be more likely to lend an ear.

Good for him. It's a decent CD, but I wish he could make some good NEW material.

He had no where else to go but up.

G3000 said:

I'm not saying it's good or bad...they are just interpretations of old songs...songs that I'm happy to hear in its original form...not country-fied remakes.

Just because you add a steel guitar and a twang in your voice...doesn't make it a country song.

If Lionel were to make a "country" album of original songs..I would be more likely to lend an ear.

Some of Lionel's old songs were country, like Deep River Woman, which had Alabama on it. Even Sail On and Still from The Commodores were country like. Anything can be a country song, if you change the arrangement.

Like this was originally a country song by Willie Nelson:

GoldDolphin said:

Awesome, he's been working hard to sell this album - he's been touring in Europe, appeared on talk shows. It was also very smart to make music for the country audience who still buy albums.

I find it more impressive, other than touring and making TV appearances, that he was able to sell this album on a home shopping network. Smart move, no matter what audience this album was geared towards or the sound he was going for. Honestly, we all know people haven't been flipping onto Lionel's stuff for a while. Sure he still tours, but when it comes to albums as of recent, many folks aren't interested for a plethora of reasons. So, the success of this album only shows that Lionel was at the right place, at the right time to release an album of this caliber. Altogether, it is luck because not every country artist sells well out of the gate. We all know the bulk of Lionel's sound has always been country-oriented, but that's not the only valid excuse as to why so many are interested in this project. Just saying...

Nonetheless, I am proud of him wholeheartedly.

[Edited 8/19/12 10:01am]

PDogz said:

Timmy84 said:

Yup. Lionel's lucky that some of his hits were either country or country-oriented hits anyway so he was able to use that to his advantage. Like silverchild said: luck, pure and simple.

Well, it also happened to be a REALLY good album as well. I don't just purchase anybodies CD, but each of the songs on this album were really good. They weren't just remakes of the originals, they each took on a slightly different flavor. I love what Willie Nelson added to "Easy", "Say You, Say Me" with Rasmus Seebach was real nice, and Shania Twain was much more than just a Diana surrogate on "Endless Love". So while I'm sure "luck" always plays a part with any musical project, these songs were really nicely done and well produced. In my opinion, it sold well because it was a good CD.

Totally agree, yeah i guess it was LUCK, but than we gotta chalk luck up to alot of things and probably everything in a way, but you cant have luck with shit product, its gotta resonante with alot of people whether WE dig it or not. Lionel had the material, the label got him the duets and they were mastermind pairings i have to say, i really liked this album and was freaking shocked i did, i love the "rockier" feel in HELLO, makes the song 100 times more powerful. And as it was said Willie was excellent, and Shania was anything but a "stand in" she did her part well. And like u said these songs were not "remakes" Lionel didnt go in and do a "def leppard" on this stuff, he or his label or both thought it out and reworked the songs to fit the right people, and it worked. and the marketing too was smart, took it to tv and sold it, did the Country Music awards etc...very smart mixed with Luck, just like when Mariah had her MIMI time

I'm happy for him. I'd rather see him be successful making a country album than to make shit that sounds like today's so-called R&B. Hell, a classical album would sound better than what's considered R&B these days.

01 – ‘You Are’ with Blake Shelton
02 – ‘Say You, Say Me’ with Jason Aldean
03 – ‘Stuck On You’ with Darius Rucker
04 – ‘Deep River Woman’ with Little Big Town
05 – ‘My Love’ with Kenny Chesney
06 – ‘Dancing On The Ceiling’ with Rascal Flatts
07 – ‘Hello’ with Jennifer Nettles
08 – ‘Sail On’ with Tim McGraw
09 – ‘Endless Love’ with Shania Twain
10 – ‘Just For You’ with Billy Currington
11 – ‘Lady’ with Kenny Rogers
12 – ‘Easy’ with Willie Nelson
13 – ‘All Night Long’ with Jimmy Buffett

the sales are US sales....Adele has not sold 3 million in the US in 2012.

vainandy said:

I'm happy for him. I'd rather see him be successful making a country album than to make shit that sounds like today's so-called R&B. Hell, a classical album would sound better than what's considered R&B these days.

The "country" popular now isn't exactly traditional country, it's popish.

Frederick96 said:

the sales are US sales....Adele has not sold 3 million in the US in 2012.

Adele's '21' is leading 2012 album sales

This year sounds a lot like last year.

Adele's 21, the top-selling album in 2011 with 5.82 million copies, is also leading the 2012 race. The British singer's sophomore album sold an additional 3.7 million copies this year to crush the competition on Billboard's midyear top 10 list.

Her take is more than the combined total of the next four albums and is the only title to exceed sales of 1 million copies. Unless a similar smash moves in, 21 could triumph again as a year-end leader, a first since Nielsen SoundScan began tallying sales in 1991. Adele's 2008 debut, 19, lands at No. 10.
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Half the albums in the top 10 are pre-2012 releases, underscoring the lack of a new blockbuster. Recent albums by Lionel Richie, One Direction, Carrie Underwood and Nicki Minaj squeaked in, along with the Now 41 compilation.

Consumers have bought 150.5 million albums so far this year, down 3% compared with the equivalent period last year, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Digital songs fared better, with 698 million downloads sold, up 6%. And Billboard's midyear top 10 boasts a mostly fresh crop, crowned by Gotye's Somebody That I Used to Know. The oldest entry, Kelly Clarkson's Stronger, has been on the chart for 34 weeks.

2012'S TOP 10 ALBUMS (year-to-date sales in millions), according to Nielsen SoundScan:

1. Adele, 21 (3.67)
2. Lionel Richie, Tuskegee (0.91)
3. One Direction, Up All Night (0.90)
4. Whitney Houston, The Greatest Hits (0.82)
5. Various artists, Now 41 (0.71)
6. Carrie Underwood, Blown Away (0.60)
7. Luke Bryan, Tailgates & Tanlines (0.58)
8. Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (0.56)
9. Drake, Take Care (0.55)
10. Adele, 19 (0.54)

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Uh you were saying again?

Oh and apparently Tuskegee ain't even the best-selling album of new material in 2012, this is:

[img:$uid]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/One_direction_up_all_night_albumcover.jpg[/img:$uid]

It's the first new album of 2012 to sell past one million this year. It's like 1.07 million right now. Lionel's still at .093 million or whatever that was.

So Adele's 3.7

1D's 1.07

Lionel's the third best-selling.

[Edited 8/19/12 14:51pm]

quite impressive sales

Timmy84 said:

Oh and apparently Tuskegee ain't even the best-selling album of new material in 2012, this is:

[img:$uid]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/One_direction_up_all_night_albumcover.jpg[/img:$uid]

It's the first new album of 2012 to sell past one million this year. It's like 1.07 million right now. Lionel's still at .093 million or whatever that was.

So Adele's 3.7

1D's 1.07

Lionel's the third best-selling.

[Edited 8/19/12 14:51pm]

Are you fucking kidding me?

smoothcriminal12 said:

Timmy84 said:

Oh and apparently Tuskegee ain't even the best-selling album of new material in 2012, this is:

[img:$uid]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/One_direction_up_all_night_albumcover.jpg[/img:$uid]

It's the first new album of 2012 to sell past one million this year. It's like 1.07 million right now. Lionel's still at .093 million or whatever that was.

So Adele's 3.7

1D's 1.07

Lionel's the third best-selling.

[Edited 8/19/12 14:51pm]

Are you fucking kidding me?

[img:$uid]http://vglounge.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/cmonson.gif[/img:$uid]

Dude, you know the little girls were gonna get that album. They're the new teen pop sensation.

Timmy84 said:

2012'S TOP 10 ALBUMS (year-to-date sales in millions), according to Nielsen SoundScan:

1. Adele, 21 (3.67)
2. Lionel Richie, Tuskegee (0.91)
3. One Direction, Up All Night (0.90)
4. Whitney Houston, The Greatest Hits (0.82)
5. Various artists, Now 41 (0.71)
6. Carrie Underwood, Blown Away (0.60)
7. Luke Bryan, Tailgates & Tanlines (0.58)
8. Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (0.56)
9. Drake, Take Care (0.55)
10. Adele, 19 (0.54)

Wow, that says a lot; that a Various Artists "Now" CD would even chart! I guess many of today's "artists" aren't even producing full albums worth of music worth buying.

PDogz said:

Timmy84 said:

2012'S TOP 10 ALBUMS (year-to-date sales in millions), according to Nielsen SoundScan:

1. Adele, 21 (3.67)
2. Lionel Richie, Tuskegee (0.91)
3. One Direction, Up All Night (0.90)
4. Whitney Houston, The Greatest Hits (0.82)
5. Various artists, Now 41 (0.71)
6. Carrie Underwood, Blown Away (0.60)
7. Luke Bryan, Tailgates & Tanlines (0.58)
8. Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (0.56)
9. Drake, Take Care (0.55)
10. Adele, 19 (0.54)

Wow, that says a lot; that a Various Artists "Now" CD would even chart! I guess many of today's "artists" aren't even producing full albums worth of music worth buying.

Well of course not, that's been the case for a number of years. And the ones worth buying are just barely over or reaching a million as you can tell.

PDogz said:

Wow, that says a lot; that a Various Artists "Now" CD would even chart!

These have to be successful if they're on the 41st edition. Kids Bop is popular too.

Timmy84 said:

PDogz said:

Wow, that says a lot; that a Various Artists "Now" CD would even chart! I guess many of today's "artists" aren't even producing full albums worth of music worth buying.

Well of course not, that's been the case for a number of years. And the ones worth buying are just barely over or reaching a million as you can tell.

Single sales are doing much better though

That had nothing to do with luck, it was more a calculated move that paid off. I have always considered him to be a country artist, with R&B, overtunes anyway.

Timmy84 said:

PDogz said:

Wow, that says a lot; that a Various Artists "Now" CD would even chart! I guess many of today's "artists" aren't even producing full albums worth of music worth buying.

Well of course not, that's been the case for a number of years. And the ones worth buying are just barely over or reaching a million as you can tell.

That's really sad, but the numbers don't lie.

MickyDolenz said:

PDogz said:

Wow, that says a lot; that a Various Artists "Now" CD would even chart!

These have to be successful if they're on the 41st edition. Kids Bop is popular too.

I must admit, I really hadn't been paying attention to the sales figures in quite some time. Now I can better understand why the record company executives all have their panties in such a bunch.

Timmy84 said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

Are you fucking kidding me?

[img:$uid]http://vglounge.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/cmonson.gif[/img:$uid]

Dude, you know the little girls were gonna get that album. They're the new teen pop sensation.

Just... . I hear about them everywhere. In class, on Facebook, and I've yet to hear one song.

smoothcriminal12 said:

Timmy84 said:

[img:$uid]http://vglounge.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/cmonson.gif[/img:$uid]

Dude, you know the little girls were gonna get that album. They're the new teen pop sensation.

Just... . I hear about them everywhere. In class, on Facebook, and I've yet to hear one song.

Just like every boy and girl group nowadays...

PDogz said:

MickyDolenz said:

These have to be successful if they're on the 41st edition. Kids Bop is popular too.

I must admit, I really hadn't been paying attention to the sales figures in quite some time. Now I can better understand why the record company executives all have their panties in such a bunch.

They put themselves in that predicament.

Timmy84 said:

PDogz said:

I must admit, I really hadn't been paying attention to the sales figures in quite some time. Now I can better understand why the record company executives all have their panties in such a bunch.

They put themselves in that predicament.

smoothcriminal12 said:

Timmy84 said:

[img:$uid]http://vglounge.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/cmonson.gif[/img:$uid]

Dude, you know the little girls were gonna get that album. They're the new teen pop sensation.

Just... . I hear about them everywhere. In class, on Facebook, and I've yet to hear one song.

Do you even listen to the radio

aardvark15 said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

Just... . I hear about them everywhere. In class, on Facebook, and I've yet to hear one song.

Do you even listen to the radio

I'm, always attached to my iPod, so no. Does anyone listen to the radio anymore?