AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
An albums sales spike? Now! you're talking...
At a time when artist album sales are falling, the unsexy compilations sector is coming up trumps
The compilations sector rarely gets the attention or credit it deserves, almost always overshadowed by the more dynamic, sexier artist albums business.
But at a time when artist album unit sales are down more than 9% on 2007's numbers, it is the various artists market that is defying gravity by winning more custom than a year ago.
Nowhere is this better illustrated than with Now!, whose 69th regular outing in March managed to achieve the highest first-week sales in the brand's near 25-year history, only for that total to be beaten a week ago by Now! 70.
Now! has been a phenomenon - and a British-invented one at that - for such a long time that it is very easy to take it for granted.
Perhaps that is because its huge sales are just assumed or maybe it just seems like easy success. After all, what could be simpler than putting together around 40 well-known tracks on an album and selling it at a competitive price?
Well, if it were that easy then there would be all sorts of other, similar packages in the market successfully managing to match or even beat Now!'s sales.
- Home Sales Spike In July
- Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered ROBERT SIRGEL August 21, 2009 700+ words
ROBERT SIRGEL NPR All Things Considered 08-21-2009 Home Sales Spike In July Host: ROBERT SIRGEL Time 21:00-22:00 PM Play Audio ROBERT SIRGEL, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED...
- More Skiers Entering Backcountry Drive Sales Spike in Avalanche Gear.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 11, 2003 700+ words
...Indeed, BackcountryStore.com, the largest dealer of Black Diamond, Ortovox and Backcountry Access, has seen a 500 percent sales spike year-over-year in avalanche beacons, probes and other avalanche gear since the first quarter of 2002. Gennerman says...
- Steaks May Seem Like Summer Grilling Fare, but Sales Spike in Winter Months.
- Newspaper article from: San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, TX) February 14, 2004 700+ words
...Neal Barnard, and it has a very real impact beyond the anthropological observation. Every year, cold weather brings a sales spike to the nation's steakhouses. "We definitely see it," Danny Strauss, general manager at the Barn Door restaurant, said...
- Reuben Sandwiches Are New Oktoberfest Favorite According to Frank's Sauerkraut...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 3, 2006 700+ words
...family together for a meal," says Chris Smith, director of marketing for Frank's Sauerkraut. "We usually see a seasonal sales spike around this time of year and anticipate it will be even greater as the Reuben finds a home nestled between mounds of sauerkraut...
- Sales Spike SWEEP STAKES.
- Magazine article from: Frozen Food Age Labetti, Kristi Sue February 1, 2001 700+ words
As the ethnic frozen food category continues to soar, so do ethnic sweepstakes and giveaways. As the number of Americans traveling abroad increases, so does their taste for ethnic food at home, increasing the demand for frozen ethnic foods. Building on the rising sales in the category, several
- Sales Spike Drives Hot Topic Net.(profits, sales up at retailer Hot Topic...
- Magazine article from: WWD November 21, 2002 700+ words
NEW YORK - Solid back-to-school and Halloween selling seasons added up to double-digit profit and sales gains for Hot Topic Inc., the rock-oriented specialty teen retailer. The City of Industry, Calif.-based retailer said for the three months ended Nov. 2 that net income floated 18.1 percent to $10
- If sales spike, retailers may suffer overloaded systems.(online sales increases...
- Magazine article from: HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network Zimmerman, Kim Ann December 29, 1997 700+ words
NEW YORK -- Having emerged from the busy holiday season, retailers engaged in electronic commerce now must step back and review how well their Internet Web sites did in the way of online sales. Many retailers undoubtedly will be pleased with the results. But others may be disappointed -- not
- Hotel sales spike during April.
- Newspaper article from: Augusta Chronicle (Augusta, GA) June 16, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Tony Lombardo Jun. 16--Augusta hotel sales during the month of Masters Week reached an estimated $10.63 million, up slightly from $10.61 million in April 2005, according to the Augusta Convention & Visitors Bureau. Whether this data, based on hotel/motel tax collections, is a reflection
