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Is Chart Track fair?

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  • 13-02-2004 2:20pm
    #1
    Morello
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    All,

    Here's the facts:

    Morello sold (as the relevant shops confirmed) over 200 CD's between Tower and Road alone, 124 in Carlow, 72 in Waterford, 40 in Mullingar, 40 in Dundalk, 150 ( ish ) in Monaghan and 46 in Killarney plus whatever went out the door on Thursday.

    Niall did a check with all the shops on Wednesday, had a count of 683, and asked the dude from Chart Track what would that have gotten us this week: he replied No. 6

    All the shops were eventually sold out:

    We sold something between 700 and 800 copies of which only 249 were recognised. Actual position in the charts: No. 20 - unofficial No. 4

    This happened because most of the shops in which we had the biggest sales (including Tower and Roads) weren't picked up in the random selection for this week.

    I understand the system works the same for everybody but only a major distribution deal would allow a band to have their CDs in ALL the shops.

    Also, a sample is supposed to be "representative".

    This system penalised our sales of a 60/70 %

    Now, is this fair?

    Your thoughts please

    Alex


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    sceptre
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    My answer's going to be long-winded but I'm going away for the weekend so I'll just do the very short version for now.

    No it isn't fair, it's unfortunate for the band and there's bugger-all you can do about it. Keep in mind that the ramdom sampling is likely to affect all bands that do a limited distribution, in either a positive or negative way, depending on luck basically.


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    daveirl
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