from Lefsetz
3. Ke$ha "Animal"
Sales this week: 66,783
Percentage change: -56
Weeks on: 2
Cume: 218,782
Top Forty radio needs shit like this.
Don't get your knickers in a twist. She's just part of the endless sideshow, she'll be gone soon.
4. Lady GaGa "Fame"
Sales this week: 63,688
Percentage change: -3
Weeks on: 64
Cume: 2,517,117
Unlike Madonna, GaGa has musical talent.
She'd do better to focus on this.
Madonna's talent was testing limits, making people uncomfortable. Can you still really do this when high school students are sexting nude pictures to each other?
Take the high road GaGa. And remember the Beatles released an album with NOTHING on the cover. After ditching their matching outfits. Lead, don't follow.
56. Ringo Starr "Y Not"
Sales this week: 7,965
Debut
Bad strategy. He needs one single, written by Paul McCartney, just for him. That'd have much more impact. Hell, we'd all give a single a chance!
139. Leona Lewis "Echo"
Sales this week: 3,567
Percentage change: -13
Weeks on: 9
Cume: 165,179
What, Simon Cowell's all over TV telling every act they suck and he can't come up with hit material for his "X Factor" winner?
She plays the Olympics.
Then she's forgotten.
And there, in a nutshell, you have the modern era.
85. Dashboard Confessional "Alter The Ending"
Sales this week: 2,362
Percentage change: -11
Weeks on: 3
Cume: 76,581
Remember when emo was the rage, when "Screaming Infidelities" ruled MTV?
Well, that audience grew up, got jobs and got married. Maybe Chris Carrabba needs to too.
Not on chart:
Heidi Montag "Superficial"
Sales this week: 658
Debut
Heidi engineered a media blitz even Tommy Mottola and Clive Davis would be envious of. But the public looked at the before and after pictures and did not buy the album.
In other words, publicity isn't everything, music is. And no one wants to hear Heidi's music, why would they?
The public knows what's real. And they know the Top Forty dreck isn't real, don't worry.
And all this boils down to a sick music business. Because if you don't have the hearts and minds of the public, you're screwed.
As for all you weenies bitching that your music hasn't been properly recognized...let me say it one more time, since your parents and friends won't...you suck. Just because you can catch a ball doesn't mean you can play in the major leagues, just because you made a record, that doesn't mean we should care. We know it when we hear it, and we don't.
You can market it, but that doesn't mean we have to buy it. Isn't that what Heidi Montag proved here?
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