Re: CD Sales Charts online?

From: Jason Sugars (jasonsugars@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jul 19 2001 - 04:04:40 CEST

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    Also, bear in mind that there may be NO truly accurate way to monitor this
    information. I know FOR A FACT that the labels have, in the past, put one
    artist's barscan information printed up under another artist's name on the
    sticker they use at retail.

    For instance, if you ship 100 units of a new unkown pop artist out and the
    barcode says that it's one of you label's many catalog best sellers (i.e.
    Kansas, Boston, Queen or even King Crimson) then every unit that unknowing
    catalog artist happens to sell in that week goes on your NEW artist's sales
    record.

    Now imagine if you have some brand new, wanna-be Limp Bizkit releasing the
    same week as your new Eminem CD, you can either make the new kids look good
    by adding their scan code to a few of the Eminem CD stickers or, knowing
    they won't do too much anyway, you can add Slim Shady's barcode on to their
    CD.
    That will just add to the hoopla when an artist that's already a slam dunk
    swell up like Lane Bryant with triplets.

    The Label's records are still tight, because they control the actual units
    shipped. The retailers may not know, because barcodes are controlled by
    whomever creates them and they are by nature very easy to manipulate.

    I hope no one from any of the labels sees this. Better yet, I hope someone
    is making this not happen any more. Sad, ain't it?

    Good Luck all.
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