Just when you thought you were hot…those damn numbers came in and everybody is downloading your album and giving their review before you can make a sale. Now the question is do those numbers matter? The answer, well that depends on how you (the artist) feel.
Here are Music Retails top 10 reasons why your 1st week numbers might be a little shady…
1. My label bought half the CD’s and the deep decline in my second week sales shows how many fans I really have…
2. I got suckered into this $500 digital distribution deal and I ain’t booked $500 worth of shows!
3. Man…them numbers don’t matter…let me see what I can get off this chain I just bought!
4. I don’t know what happened…1 million people downloaded my mix tape…I thought at least 500,000 of them would have purchased my album???
5. My song got 200 spins a week on southeast radio! Damn, guess we should have spent some of that radio money on marketing huh?
6. Why’d I let that DJ put half my album on my mix-tape…and then they used all the good songs!
7. I was on twitter for 2 months promoting my release date…did they forget???
8. I made it rain in every club in the southeast, I know them fools had enough money to buy my shit at Best Buy the first week! Hell it was only 7.99!!!
9. After we ain’t have no good first week #’s, the street team got their daily cursing out by the rapper that owns the record label. Now we’re REALLY excited about going hard that 2nd week…NOT!
10. My Label CEO…SWAG! Damn, there goes my marketing budget from the majors…
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