KOTB charting
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Just noticed KOTB is up to No. 3 on the Billboard Jazz chart -- from No. 6 last week. I wonder what accounts for the renewed interest? Yes, yes, those of you who hate jazz can be snide about how low the sales are to make it on the Jazz charts (yada yada), but heck the UK's main albums chart isn't exactly selling boatloads either. At any rate I'm glad to see the renewed interest and I hope it gets another bump from the PBS special next week on Sept. 7. It's a nifty little album that deserves to be heard by anyone who appreciates quiet jazz.
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I guess the PBS thing has given the album a new "bump."
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It's just a good album, so the bump in the charts for whatever reason is very understandable!
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OK, so the PBS special sure did the trick. KOTB was somewhere around No. 500 on the Amazon charts before the special Friday night. I just checked and KOTB is now NO. 2 on the Amazon Top 100 -- just behind Bob Dylan's new album. Wow, that's a pretty big bump.
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This albums has proved to have a lot of mileage.
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audi:
This albums has proved to have a lot of mileage.
Slow but steady wins the race. We'll it will never rack up huge sales but it's great to see people still buying it. And given that PBS usually rebroadasts those great performances specials again and again, maybe the sales will hang in there for a bit.
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Well thanks to Paul's PBS Great Performances special, KOTB is not only back at No. 1 on the Jazz Albums chart but it's also back on the Billboard 200 chart at No. 121.
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Michelley:
Well thanks to Paul's PBS Great Performances special, KOTB is not only back at No. 1 on the Jazz Albums chart but it's also back on the Billboard 200 chart at No. 121.
That's great. And the best part is that it's keeping Paul on the radar...until the next pop/rock album is released. Speaking of: Do we have a projected release-date yet?
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Paul's Kisses On The Bottom is No. 1 again this week on the Billboard Traditional Jazz album chart for week ending 9/29 with 33 weeks on the chart and 8 weeks total at # 1! Just sayin'...
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wow, that is really nice to hear! It deserves to be No. 1.
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Wow 30 more people decided to buy the album this week huh? Just joking!
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That is pretty cool. So Paul's obviously had #1's in Pop/Rock, what other catagories? Didn;t Sally G do some damage on the country charts? and was Ocean Kingdom or any of his classical work #1 on classical charts? He's done amazing in all genre's really. sales volumes are down but the game is still played how the game is played; a #1 is a #1. I just don't personally happen to be flipping out these days listening to jazz arrangements of oddball standards I do give props to Paul for how that album was done though. very cool.
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KOTB is up there with A Kind of Blue in terms of jazz influence.
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JoeySmith:
KOTB is up there with A Kind of Blue in terms of jazz influence.
note to self, need to get that album Guarantee I could find that one on the cheap.
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kapoo:
That is pretty cool. So Paul's obviously had #1's in Pop/Rock, what other catagories? Didn;t Sally G do some damage on the country charts? and was Ocean Kingdom or any of his classical work #1 on classical charts? He's done amazing in all genre's really. sales volumes are down but the game is still played how the game is played; a #1 is a #1...
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MaccaBeatles:
Wow 30 more people decided to buy the album this week huh? Just joking!
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kapoo:
JoeySmith:
KOTB is up there with A Kind of Blue in terms of jazz influence.
note to self, need to get that album Guarantee I could find that one on the cheap.
Kind of Blue is a GREAT jazz album... and a 'must have' for fans of Jazz!! One of my favs...
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Besides being No. 1 on the Jazz Album, KOTB is also No. 102 on the main Billboard 200 Chart -- seven months after its release. Yes, we all know CD sales are in the toilet but for KOTB to still be on the Billboard main chart at all at this point is pretty damn good. (And in the CD-sales-really-are-in-the-toilet Department, I noticed that Bob Dylan's new album debuted at No. 3 in the UK last week but it only sold a measly 36,000 copies. In the US, Dylan's album also debuted at No. 3 and only sold 110,000 copies. Dang, if Dylan can't move more albums than that with the good reviews he always gets, then it's an up hill battle for Paul's next pop album.)
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Michelley:
Besides being No. 1 on the Jazz Album, KOTB is also No. 102 on the main Billboard 200 Chart -- seven months after its release. Yes, we all know CD sales are in the toilet but for KOTB to still be on the Billboard main chart at all at this point is pretty damn good. (And in the CD-sales-really-are-in-the-toilet Department, I noticed that Bob Dylan's new album debuted at No. 3 in the UK last week but it only sold a measly 36,000 copies. In the US, Dylan's album also debuted at No. 3 and only sold 110,000 copies. Dang, if Dylan can't move more albums than that with the good reviews he always gets, then it's an up hill battle for Paul's next pop album.)
Still, 110,000 copies at about, oh, say, $12 bucks a pop, works out to about $1.3 million dollars in revenue generated in one week. I'll take that over what I made last week.
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kapoo:
That is pretty cool. So Paul's obviously had #1's in Pop/Rock, what other catagories? Didn;t Sally G do some damage on the country charts? and was Ocean Kingdom or any of his classical work #1 on classical charts? He's done amazing in all genre's really. sales volumes are down but the game is still played how the game is played; a #1 is a #1. I just don't personally happen to be flipping out these days listening to jazz arrangements of oddball standards I do give props to Paul for how that album was done though. very cool.
Standing Stone and Ocean Kingdom were both No 1 on the Classical Chart. I think the Liverpool Oratorio was also.