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CHARTS MUST BAN CHEAP RELEASES.
The fact that the first Westlife album went to number one on the mid-week album chart highlights the need to review the current chart rules which allow a release sold at 3.99 [pounds sterling] to top the main albums chart.
If as an industry we are to maintain that the current charts used by the BBC and many leading music magazines and newspapers is the only chart that counts, then the BPI and Bard have to give serious consideration to excluding any album sold at less than cost price. The problem appears every time a major chain has a clearout sale or buys-in top titles at rock-bottom prices to use as loss leaders to attract customers. That is a legitimate ploy, but the fact that the albums on offer then appear in the next Top 40 misleads the public in every sense of the word. Some may think that an artist or band have a new album out and purchase it at full-price before realising that it is in fact old material, while others may see it at the knock-down price of 3.99 [pounds sterling] and wonder why they paid 12.99 [pounds ...
- Echoes of a Voice Stilled Too Early; The Death of Eva Cassidy Haunts Friends...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Richard Harrington November 17, 1996 700+ words
...Lundvall still shakes his head over Eva Cassidy. Lundvall heads Blue Note Records...like this unknown singer from Bowie. "Eva Cassidy had the most extraordinary and singular...was a kid. Who knew?" On Nov. 2, Eva Cassidy died at the age of 33 following a three...
- Eva Cassidy's rise to fame; Death gave her music new life.(ARTS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times August 10, 2002 700+ words
...like, few come as close as singer Eva Cassidy's. During her lifetime, Miss Cassidy...four months following her diagnosis, Eva Cassidy died. After a beautiful memorial service...release of "Songbird," the name "Eva Cassidy" seemed to pop up everywhere. Her...
- BRITAIN DISCOVERS LATE AMERICAN CHANTEUSE.(Eva Cassidy)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Europe Egan, Stuart April 1, 2001 700+ words
...Oz) and the artist in question, one Eva Cassidy. Born in 1963 in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Eva Cassidy grew up in a musical family environment...next within the space of three minutes. Eva Cassidy is an artist that understood this, and...
- HAIR SHE GOES; Charlotte brushes up Eva Cassidy act for TV show.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England) August 29, 2002 700+ words
...Lopez, but the late American songstress Eva Cassidy. 'Whenever Charlotte is at home weknow...music from Pink to Miss Saignon. But Eva Cassidy has become one of her idols and when...FAME: Charlotte Gethin and (left) as Eva Cassidy and (far left) the real late American...
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- Magazine article from: Sing Out! Anderson, Jamie March 22, 2004 700+ words
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- New releases from Peter Gabriel, Jackson Browne, Peter Wolf, Eva...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service September 24, 2002 700+ words
...Main St." Peter Wolf? Surprised us, too. _Howard Cohen ___ EVA CASSIDY "Imagine" (Blix Street) 3 stars At first, even the most diehard fans of the late Eva Cassidy _ the Washington, D.C., blues/jazz/folk singer who succumbed...
- Eva Cassidy Dies at 33; Local Blues, Jazz Singer
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Claudia Levy November 6, 1996 700+ words
Eva Cassidy, 33, an award-winning jazz and blues singer and acoustic guitarist whose first solo recording, "Live at Blues Alley," was...
- Eva Cassidy Imagine.(Sound Recording Review)
- Magazine article from: Sing Out! Regenstreif, Mike January 1, 2003 700+ words
Blix Street 10075 Eva Cassidy was so very young, only 33, when she passed away from cancer in 1996. At the time of her death, she was known and loved by...