On Mon, 18 Jul 1994, Roy Badami wrote:
quoted 3 lines From the Uprising column in XLR8R mag.> > >From the Uprising column in XLR8R mag.
> > The Aphex Twin's album (has sold roughly) 10,000. (The columnist goes on to
> > say, correctly, that for a MAJOR record label, 10,000 copies is shit). So
That columnist was insane. Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works II
is a two-CD album. I can tell you that for *any* domestic album
that is priced over $16.99 to sell that many copies is good,
even by Warner Brothers' book. I remember a few years ago
reading that box sets (Stones, Springsteen, etc.) *rarely*
sell over 60,000 copies, so compared to them, which only cost
$20 more but have an extra CD and are *BIG NAME* artists,
10,000 copies of a double CD Aphex Twin is not so shoddy methinks!
Besides, it hasn't been out *that* long,
and it's not really getting typical *WEA* support,
(record store promotions, sales incentives, developing artists
programs like listening booth spotlights, etc.)
Basically, I think that the problem is that ambient
music has not found its audience yet, and I really doubt that WEA is
going to give up on it already...
gschmitz@luna.cas.usf.edu