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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:21 am
by weird_el
Found at
Billboard wrote:
Released in May 2003, "Poodle Hat" debuted at No. 17 on The Billboard 200 and has sold 336,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:25 am
by Teh Dingo
Wow....so Poodle Hat has sold not even 300,000 copies since after it's first week. That's kind of depressing.
Oh well. Any publidity's good publicity
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:30 am
by yo
Can anyone else here see Poodle Hat becoming the next Polka Party in Al's discography?
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:35 am
by Teh Dingo
Yep...and it's a shame.
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:37 am
by Insert Coin(s) to Continue
spacedingo @ Mar 11 2004, 05:35 PM wrote:
Yep...and it's a shame.
Why do you say that? Did you not like Polka Party?
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:42 am
by yo
iisryan27 @ Mar 12 2004, 01:37 AM wrote:
spacedingo @ Mar 11 2004, 05:35 PM wrote:
Yep...and it's a shame.
Why do you say that? Did you not like Polka Party?
Polka Party is the most neglected album and considered to be the worst by many. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great, but it would indeed be shameful for Poodle Hat, which is even better, to be pushed under the rug like that.
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:42 am
by Teh Dingo
Polka Party's notoriously the worst selling album of Al's career . I'm not saying anything bad about it, I'm just saying that it's a shame Poodle Hat's ending up with the same numbers.
Yeah....what yo said.
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:48 am
by Insert Coin(s) to Continue
I hope Poodle Hat never gets that reputation, it's his best CD!
Maybe nobody bought it because everyone thought Al was dead
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:04 am
by Orthography Enthusiast
yo @ Mar 12 2004, 01:30 AM wrote:
Can anyone else here see Poodle Hat becoming the next Polka Party in Al's discography?
No. Polka Party has some great songs, but Poodle Hat is consistently excellent, and no album that wins a Grammy can be considered a "flop."
Look at it this way: Al managed to sell 336,000 albums with NO video, NO MTV exposure worth mentioning and not much from VH1 or any other TV (even his Grammy wasn't televised, dadburnit!
) and NO radio airplay, in an era of rampant downloading, burn-your-own copying and other forms of piracy and HOOLIGANISM and in the context of a music industry that is now fragmented into innumerable narrow niche interests. I'm convinced that Al doesn't have a sales problem because people don't like him anymore-- he has a sales problem because he has a massive publicity problem.
Going on tour again is bound to help with the sales. But even if it doesn't help as much as we all hope it will, he'll still have a
succès d’estime (which is not, let me hasten to say, the same as being a genius in France)
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:09 am
by Bruce the Duck
I agree whole-heartedly, OE. The problem is publicity. Isn't Jay Levey responsible for getting Al some exposure? Hmmmm....