Promotion and Chart Prediction of New in Australia
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The album has been out since the 11th, as I don't live in a capital city or listen to the radio or watch a lot of TV I would like to know from fellow Aussies or other people in the know if you have seen any promotion at all in Australia, heard any songs, features or specials promoting the new album? Any predictions for a chart position? I think a Top 40 is a given but with the right promotion could be a Top 10 peak
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Seen and heard nuttin' in the way of promotion, but I've been living like John Lennon circa 1978, the past month or two...
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All I can see is that the album is #19 in Australian iTunes.
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moptops:
Seen and heard nuttin' in the way of promotion, but I've been living like John Lennon circa 1978, the past month or two...
You have just reminded me of "Watching The Wheels"
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Maybe if he occasionally toured here that may help with charts. Have we pissed him off here or something. Weird that he is a prolific tourer and hasn't graced our shores since 93
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panposs:
Maybe if he occasionally toured here that may help with charts. Have we pissed him off here or something. Weird that he is a prolific tourer and hasn't graced our shores since 93
I'm truthfully staggered it's inside the top 20 Aussie iTunes. Seriously, considering he has had no profile whatsoever here since 93.
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favoritething:
All I can see is that the album is #19 in Australian iTunes.
Wow! See Macca we love you, yeah yeah yeah!!!!
Imagine if he was down under doing free concerts, promotions, getting extensive airplay, there are many people needing to be turned onto your new music man, so make a stop over after Japan -
I will post links to any reviews of New that I find in the Australian media
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moptops:
http://www.noise11.com/news/paul-mccartney-fails-to-crack-australian-top-20-20131021#
sales of 1290?
That is poor although a lot better than poor old Elt's miserable 169 effort. I think its brilliant though that Pink Floyd's 40 year old album has sold more than EJ's latest. 
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He was on the Graham Norton Show Sunday, but I didn't realise until later as I tend to stray away from commercial TV, given the "vast array" of local quality content we have here. I'm a Foxtel (cable) man, which is pretty up to date, so I recorded Jimmy Fallon. There was a snippet on Entertainment Tonight about the making of the Queenie Eye vid (do they still called them videos?) Apart from that, I've seen no ads plugging the album or seen any reviews or articles in any of the local Melbourne papers (or rather, internet sites). Usually, one of those hack weedy writers like Cameron Adams or Nui Tui What'shisname are out bagging McCartney by now. They're so predictable that I will be astounded if their critical masterpieces aren't peppered with phrases about "silly love songs" and "Cute" and "safe" all that typical stuff. That could be coming Thursday, when they usually inundate us with their droll views in the "papers". ps. Flaming Pie, all those years ago, was the last real big promotion. Write-ups in all the papers, interviews, and even a special competion to tour Abbey Road. Some lucky bug*gar won that. Might've even been me.
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Must confess to a little disappointed surprise over this news...I thought you Aussies and your Aussie Land were brimming over with rabid Macca lovers and "New" would chart higher, although its Oz showing isn't that bad I thought initially, number 22 but then someone put only 1,299 copies sold or something like that? Still I feel Oz inhabitants by the millions would go ape if Paul put on concerts there-- and then a right good number of his New albums would get moved. When I bought and sold (mainly Beatle stuff and solo Beatles and Paul Wings and Paul post-Fabs and Paul post Wings stuff) on eBay, I remember feeling perturbed, upset when an Aussie guy snagged a whole bunch of vintage teen 16 magazines I had collected off the Net, for just seventy-five bucks (his price he won for mine). He positively gloated. He was gonna suffer no trouble re-selling these for a high price, he implied. The mags were in near-mint condition.
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SusyLuvsPaul:
Must confess to a little disappointed surprise over this news...I thought you Aussies and your Aussie Land were brimming over with rabid Macca lovers and "New" would chart higher, although its Oz showing isn't that bad I thought initially, number 22 but then someone put only 1,299 copies sold or something like that? Still I feel Oz inhabitants by the millions would go ape if Paul put on concerts there-- and then a right good number of his New albums would get moved. When I bought and sold (mainly Beatle stuff and solo Beatles and Paul Wings and Paul post-Fabs and Paul post Wings stuff) on eBay, I remember feeling perturbed, upset when an Aussie guy snagged a whole bunch of vintage teen 16 magazines I had collected off the Net, for just seventy-five bucks (his price he won for mine). He positively gloated. He was gonna suffer no trouble re-selling these for a high price, he implied. The mags were in near-mint condition.
Bruce Springsteen recently toured and sold out all his concerts, is coming back soon, so there is a market for nostaliga rock/pop. But, as the other guys already noted, McCartney hasn't been here since '93 and before that it was mid-70's. It saddens me that New may even be outsold in Australia by Tina Arena (some singer that used to be a child "star" on some lame show called Young Talent Time back in the 70's/80's) ps. those mags were pretty good, by the way. Paid through the teeth for them, though. Certainly in mint condition.... I jest
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hee hee
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Maybe that's why macca doesn't go down under anymore, no support, no demand, no nothing. If the album would have gone to #1, i can assure you that he would be playing there in 2014.
