Pink Floyd? Who's album The Wall is the third best selling album of all time? I think their sales were probably pretty impressive before Live 8 as well. I'm just guessing though.
Well, maybe they sold just very very little before the Live 8 concert. But it's a good thing to donate the money to charity.
Yeah... Think of all the millions of dollars Queen must've made from record sales after Live Aid... For as far as I know, they never donated a dime of that to charity...
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Robbie Williams tried to do Queens We Will Rock You this time but it didnt rweally work. I find 1300% hard to believe, I mean The Wall and Dark Side sell probably 500,000 annually already
It isn't for sales overall. It's for their 'Best of' CD Echoes.
Those sales volumes for Live 8 acts in full:
1 Pink Floyd - Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd - 1343% 2 The Who - Then and Now - 863% 3 Annie Lennox - Eurythmics Greatest Hits - 500% 4 Dido - Life For Rent - 412% 5 Razorlight - Up All Night - 335% 6 Robbie Williams - Greatest Hits - 320% 7 Joss Stone - Mind, Body and Soul - 309% 8 Sting - The Very Best of Sting & The Police - 300% 9 Travis - Singles - 268% 10 Madonna - Immaculate Collection - 200%
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Live 8: Pink Floyd Guitarist To Donate Profit Category: SOFTPEDIA NEWS :: Entertainment :: Music
Pink Floyd's guitarist David Gilmour declared today that he will donate to the charity effort for Africa the revenue from its album's sales
Pink Floyd's guitarist David Gilmour declared today that he will donate to the charity effort for Africa the revenue from his album's sales, which had gone up after the Live 8 concert. Gilmour said: "This is money that should be used to save lives."
HMV said sales of Pink Floyd's album "Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd" had gone up by 1,343 percent since the weekend.
"Though the main objective has been to raise consciousness and put pressure on the G-8 leaders, I will not profit from the concert," Gilmour said in a statement Monday.
"If other artists feel like donating their extra royalties to charity, perhaps then the record companies could be persuaded to make a similar gesture and that would be a bonus," he said. "This is money that should be used to save lives."
Sir Paul McCartney and Annie Lennox have also reportedly pledged to share their profits. A spokesman for Lennox said: "Annie feels that it is appropriate to give something back."
The Who also decided to give the profits to charity. "The band are impressed with what Pink Floyd are doing, and should there be any significant extra royalties coming in they would look at doing the same."
The sales of The Who's album Ultimate Collection have risen 51 per cent over the past week, and Lennox's album sales have shot up 500 per cent.
I thought watching Robbie Williams was like watching a cheap Vegas act. I wasn't too thrilled. But he was into it I guess. I liked the way Billie Joe worked the crowd in Berlin. But again, a little too much schmaltz for a rock star.
I thought watching Robbie Williams was like watching a cheap Vegas act. I wasn't too thrilled. But he was into it I guess. I liked the way Billie Joe worked the crowd in Berlin. But again, a little too much schmaltz for a rock star.
Robbie does veer dangerously close to cabaret sometimes. But I can't think of many other solo male rock performers of his generation so he seems to have his own little niche. I think he's an essentially English thing that doesn't translate to well.
It isn't for sales overall. It's for their 'Best of' CD Echoes.
Those sales volumes for Live 8 acts in full:
1 Pink Floyd - Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd - 1343% 2 The Who - Then and Now - 863% 3 Annie Lennox - Eurythmics Greatest Hits - 500% 4 Dido - Life For Rent - 412% 5 Razorlight - Up All Night - 335% 6 Robbie Williams - Greatest Hits - 320% 7 Joss Stone - Mind, Body and Soul - 309% 8 Sting - The Very Best of Sting & The Police - 300% 9 Travis - Singles - 268% 10 Madonna - Immaculate Collection - 200%
Robbie does veer dangerously close to cabaret sometimes. But I can't think of many other solo male rock performers of his generation so he seems to have his own little niche. I think he's an essentially English thing that doesn't translate to well.
No, he translates fine. I just didn't care for his voice very much. I never minded Freddie Mercury or Bowie camping it up, but I enjoyed their music as well. I did like the one song Robbie did towards the end, but again, his voice doesn't do anything for me.
Paul is always out there. You don't have a chance to just discover him or forget that you liked him. That's who these people are who are buying the cd's. Most of us already own this stuff so we didn't add to the jump.
I think he doesn't. Cause Robbie Williams is HUGE in Europe. I think that in the Netherlands you'll find more people that do like him than people that don't.
Maybe explain to me what's not translating? Maybe he hasn't had big enough exposure over here. It's a big place with lots of bands trying to catch on. The translating thing I'm not getting.
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