At 05:56 PM 7/11/01 -0700, Marco wrote:
>
>Take dido's "No Angel" as an example, an album which I
>quite liked when it came out (what, like two and half years
>ago now?). This was a great album, but when released, it
>was pretty much commercially ignored. To acheive
>recognition, Dido's music had to appear as the theme to a
>TV show, then have a song appear on a popular movie
>soundtrack. To finally blip on the commercial radio radar,
>she had a song sampled by Eminem, which was then played ad
>nauseum. Total market saturation, now she's a somewhat big
>star, sitting at the top of the charts.
Spoeaking of Dido, is it true that she (who is a UK artist) is a rare case
of being a relative unknown in her native Britain while a big star in the
US and the rest of the world? Last I heard "No Angel" never even had a
domestic release in the UK.
>
Hey, Dido's band has a turntablist...
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