Distribution suggestion for 100 Years

[AnnieOprah]

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?

[Jodes]

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.

[sadie65]

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.

[Castle Walls]

Picked mine up here in Medicine Hat at Wal Mart.

[AnnieOprah]

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.

[bugsymalone]

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

[yogi]

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.