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Sopranos boosting itunes sales
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Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:28 amby Angiekay
Journey's 1981 hit single "Don't Stop Believin'" has been given a major boost by its appearance during the controversial final scene of The Sopranos last Sunday (June 10th). The New York Times reports that sales of the single via the iTunes music store went from about 1,000 on the day before the episode ran to 6,531 the day after. The song reached Number Seventeen in popularity on iTunes, and the band's Greatest Hits album reached the iTunes Top Twenty.
In addition, airplay for "Don't Stop Believin'" has increased 192 percent over the previous week, according to the Nielsen BDS service, which monitors and tracks airplay.
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Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:33 amby Red13JoePa
LOL.
People are just...funny I guess. I love that Journey's getting a little catalogue boot in the ass but peoples' bandwagon follower sheep mentality is hilarious...."rrrrrr that Journey song was on the Sopranos now everybody's talking about it...gotta go download it, gotta be the first on the block to have it queued up!!!!!"
Weird thing is, we're just what? 2 years out from the last mad dash to download this very same song?
Fucking Journey laughs all the way to the bank.
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Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:35 amby Rockindeano
3rd thread on this. A 26 yr old song is getting some run is incredible though.
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Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:41 amby Red13JoePa
RockinDeano wrote:3rd thread on this. A 26 yr old song is getting some run is incredible though.
Yea thank god for peoples' stupidity and utter gullibility to pop culture and the media that compels them always to get the HOT MUST HAVE THING!!!!
The people who downloaded the shit probly already had it either on ESC4P3 or the GH, but just needed to be able say "I downloaded that after the Sopranos."
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Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:22 amby Red13JoePa
COPPED FROM FRANKSTRANGEGREY'S PLACE:
this is an excerpt from a newsarticle:
Just for the rights to use the song, "Sopranos producers likely paid anywhere from $25,000 to $100,000 for the right to use the song, netting a nice pay day for Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which owns the master recording of the song, and Journey's then-lead singer Steve Perry, guitarist Neal Schon and keyboardist Jonathan Cain, who teamed up to write the song. Also among the beneficiaries will be Perry's own Lacey Boulevard Music and Schon and Cain's Weed High Nightmare Music, administered by Wixen Music Publishing."
That's not counting the residuals forked out each time it's rebroadcast (plus radio spins which have increased).