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Dr_Rock 09:31 am UTC 11/10/10 |
| In reply to: | Jim Steinman's Greatest Hits Album - steven_stuart 10:08 pm UTC 11/09/10 |
| Jim's songs seem to pop up pretty regularly on the various compilation CDs that newspapers give away; and I would think politically Jim might have an issue with any association with The Mail. Perhaps the Guardian would be a better option. It would be interesting to know the financial details of, for example, Prince's album in the Mail to see which party benefits most overall. I would expect the incentive for the artist is that people will hear the CD and go out and buy their other albums. It would be interesting to see if this generated enough sales to make it worth what they paid to the newspaper. > I was just thinking about alternative ways to distribute > albums. This would not be for a major label release like > "The Final Flight" but it could be for a really cool Jim > Steinman's Greatest Hits album. Paul McCartney distributed > one album through a chain of coffee shops. Wendy's > sometimes gives away a free album with every burger. Steve > Leber's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles shifted three million > copies of their album that way. The Mail On Sunday would > be better. At least Prince has released an album with The > Mail (I think it has a circulation of about four million). > > > It is not practical for them to release a double CD, so > the CD would have to be maybe twelve tracks. > > But what twelve tracks would you choose? For a Jim > Steinman's Greatest Hits album? I would like a Jim > Steinman's Greatest Hits album that included all the great > people he has worked with. Streisand, Dion, Manilow, Take > That, Loaf, Tyler, Sisters Of Mercy, Lloyd Webber, > Elliman, Pandora's Box. Although this would mean a limited > selection of Meat Loaf and Bonnie Tyler tracks, so it > wouldn't really be a Jim Steinman's Greatest Hits album if > it didn't include Two Out Of Three. More of an > "Introduction To The Musical World Of Jim Steinman". > > Of course a limited number of Bat songs might be good > because the give away album would not be competing with > any official Bat releases from major labels. > > So which twelve tracks would you choose? If you could only > include three Meat Loaf songs, which three would you pick? | |
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