quoted 16 lines Top 20 singles - montreal metro - week of Feb. 4
>Top 20 singles - montreal metro - week of Feb. 4
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>10 29 boards of canada/in a beautiful place...
>16 53 autechre/vol 2-peel session
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>This isn't from college radio charts; it's from retail record sales.
>
>Is (Warp-labelled) IDM breaking into the mainstream?
>(I know that some Warp singles have charted in the UK before.)
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>Or is the explanation more mundane? e.g. the "Montreal Metro" area just
>happens to be more receptive to electronica, or sales of
>pop-music/mainstream *singles* are so low that electronica singles
>manage to chart.
It's quite likely the latter. The mainstream singles market in Canada is
very small, mainly because:
1) a lot of mainstream radio hits are never released as commercial singles
in this country, so if you like the song and want to own it, you have to
buy the album; and
2) when they *are* released, they tend to be quite expensive in relation to
full-length albums - so why plunk down 6-8 bucks for a single when you can
get the album for only a few bucks more?
Therefore, singles with very few units sold can hit the charts pretty
easily. And singles that are quite old can stay on the charts for a long
time even if they only sell a dozen or so copies.
For example, here are some odd looking entries on the latest sales charts
for singles in Canada (taken from
http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicCharts/SINGLES.html):
#12: CLOSER - NINE INCH NAILS ( INTERSCOPE )
#20: FIXED - NINE INCH NAILS ( INTERSCOPE )
#24: GLORYTIMES - PORTISHEAD ( POLYGRAM ) [this one has been on the chart
for 226 weeks!]
#29: VOL. 2-PEEL SESSION AUTECHRE ( WRPR )
#37: IN A BEAUTIFUL PLACE OUT IN - BOARDS OF CANADA ( WRPR )
#44: MY IRON LUNG - RADIOHEAD ( EMI )
So yeah, it's kind of cool that Warp stuff is hitting the mainstream sales
charts in Canada. But it doesn't really mean much in the long run.
Greg
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