MR

When Dennis ever gets 100 Years out in the States, I have a perfect distribution channel for him....

Ready?

Starbucks!!! They seem to move a lot of CDs in their stores and the artists that they feature are similar - at least in demographic to Dennis.

Do you think his team at Rounder has given any thought to this?

Well they were distributed in WAL MART up here in Canada, you can't really get any bigger then that now can you?

Oh, and I have not seen 1 DDY cd in Starbucks up here, just FYI.

Jodes wrote:Well they were distributed in WAL MART up here in Canada, you can't really get any bigger then that now can you?

Oh, and I have not seen 1 DDY cd in Starbucks up here, just FYI.

I believe she was suggesting his record company use Starbucks as a potential vehicle to sell it, not that they were supposed to be in Starbucks already.

Picked mine up here in Medicine Hat at Wal Mart.

Jodes wrote:Well they were distributed in WAL MART up here in Canada, you can't really get any bigger then that now can you?

Oh, and I have not seen 1 DDY cd in Starbucks up here, just FYI.

You don't have to be so snooty about it...

It was merely a recommendation - if you go into a Starbucks in the US, they are always playing music - and that music is for sale on CD. It is generally older audiences - ones that probably aren't getting airplay on the radio. It would be airplay as well as a selling venue.

And by the way, there ain't a chance in hell that Wal-Mart in the US takes a Dennis DeYoung solo CD.

AnnieOprah wrote:

Jodes wrote:Well they were distributed in WAL MART up here in Canada, you can't really get any bigger then that now can you?

Oh, and I have not seen 1 DDY cd in Starbucks up here, just FYI.

You don't have to be so snooty about it...

It was merely a recommendation - if you go into a Starbucks in the US, they are always playing music - and that music is for sale on CD. It is generally older audiences - ones that probably aren't getting airplay on the radio. It would be airplay as well as a selling venue.

And by the way, there ain't a chance in hell that Wal-Mart in the US takes a Dennis DeYoung solo CD.

I am not positive about this, but doesn't Starbucks have its own label? Or at least distribution deal? I know Paul McCartney had an album (His last one? Not keeping up with Sir Paul much lately.) released exclusively through Starbucks.

I think Dennis would be grateful for his CD to show up ANYwhere in the U.S. I think he harbors no illusions about its prospects down here and, if it should happen to sell fairly well, then that would be a gift he is not expecting, but would be quite thankful for, just as he is for the Canadian version of the album.


Bugsy

Annie,

Wal Mart sold the shit out of the Shaw/Blades Influence CD.

I live in a town of 20,000 and they had lots of copies plus a Shaw/Blades display.