Peer Pressure’s An Awful Thing
May 8, 2008 by Ailbhe Malone
Filed under Anablog
They’re all bloody at it :
Paul McCartney has announced that he is to give away his current studio album Memory Almost Full, with the Mail On Sunday on May 18.
The album, which originally came out last year through Starbucks’ music imprint Hear Music, has already sold 100,000 copies in the UK to date (OCC) and reached number five in the UK album charts. However, with the free giveaway the album has a potential to reach upto 2 million homes.
Speaking to music industry business weekly Music Week, The Mail on Sunday’s managing director Stephen Miron commented on the deal, saying: “If you look at how he came to do the Starbucks’ album deal, it was a result of feeling unhappy with the music industry and looking at alternative ways of distribution. I can’t think of anyone else who has come up with the right alternative distribution than us.”
Though, seriously Paul, The Mail on Sunday? The Mail ‘Britain For The British, Let’s Uphold Conservative (With A Small ‘c’) Values’ on Sunday? What would Coretta say?
Nice modern title there. Says “I have an iPod too. You can put my album on yours”.
The people who bought this in Starbucks are gonna be pissed off.
“The Mail ‘Britain For The British, Let’s Uphold Conservative (With A Small ‘c’) Values’ on Sunday? What would Coretta say?”
The Mail on Sunday is certainly something starting with a small ‘c’, as are the people who thought that a new Paul McCartney would be the perfect accompaniment with their mocha-soy-caramel-and-mango-lattechino.
‘cutting edge’?
I was thinking “cool”.