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Andrea Bocelli and Il Divo helped give classical music the largest percentage sales boost of any genre — a 22.5 percent increase in 2006.
For a country of 300 million, that's not many! Mainstream music is less important than it thinks it is.Nielsen SoundScan said 588.2 million albums were sold in 2006 — a 4.9 percent decline from 2005.
Actually, I'll take credit for some of the increase and it wasn't from buying the artists you mentioned - although my wife is into the Divo guys (go figure.)burnitdown wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070104/ap_ ... usic_salesClassical heartthrobs
Andrea Bocelli and Il Divo helped give classical music the largest percentage sales boost of any genre — a 22.5 percent increase in 2006.
Note this:
For a country of 300 million, that's not many! Mainstream music is lessNielsen SoundScan said 588.2 million albums were sold in 2006 — a 4.9 percent decline from 2005.
important than it thinks it is.
I should've quoted the article, because I have no idea who the artists mentioned are. Not surprisingly they're "classical lite," because Hollywood loves to promote its own and detests anyone else. By Divo do you mean Devo, the "whip it good" folks who believed Western society was devolving? I've always wanted to like them... I just have a pathological hatred for pop musickeaggy220 wrote:I'll take credit for some of the increase and it wasn't from buying the artists you mentioned - although my wife is into the Divo guys (go figure.)
No, it is Divo, as in IL(L) Divo - brought to us by Simon Cowell of American idol fame. Apparently he thought a multi-national man-hunk quartet (one American and the rest European) singing pop-opera would get the average middle-aged woman hot and bothered enough to go out and buy their CD's, DVD's and other essentials. To test his theory he had them appear on Oprah and uh, yeah you guessed it, he was platinum selling right on the $$$$$.burnitdown wrote:I should've quoted the article, because I have no idea who the artists mentioned are. Not surprisingly they're "classical lite," because Hollywood loves to promote its own and detests anyone else. By Divo do you mean Devo, the "whip it good" folks who believed Western society was devolving? I've always wanted to like them... I just have a pathological hatred for pop musickeaggy220 wrote:I'll take credit for some of the increase and it wasn't from buying the artists you mentioned - although my wife is into the Divo guys (go figure.)
One of the members of Il Divo (Carlos Marin) has sung in a recording of an obscure 18th century Spanish opera by Martin y Soler. They are pretty good pop singers, especially the tenors. Their recordings would sound better in my opinion if they didn't use heavy pop post-production, particularly the phony reverb. Wouldn't surprise me if more of his live "serious" singing turned up now.keaggy220 wrote:No, it is Divo, as in IL(L) Divo - brought to us by Simon Cowell of American idol fame. Apparently he thought a multi-national man-hunk quartet (one American and the rest European) singing pop-opera would get the average middle-aged woman hot and bothered enough to go out and buy their CD's, DVD's and other essentials. To test his theory he had them appear on Oprah and uh, yeah you guessed it, he was platinum selling right on the $$$$$.burnitdown wrote:I should've quoted the article, because I have no idea who the artists mentioned are. Not surprisingly they're "classical lite," because Hollywood loves to promote its own and detests anyone else. By Divo do you mean Devo, the "whip it good" folks who believed Western society was devolving? I've always wanted to like them... I just have a pathological hatred for pop musickeaggy220 wrote:I'll take credit for some of the increase and it wasn't from buying the artists you mentioned - although my wife is into the Divo guys (go figure.)
It's times like this that I'm glad I don't own a TV and tend to unconsciously boycott the Hollywood/big media people. I miss out on all the things I'd need to be culturally well-rounded in the culture of voidness.keaggy220 wrote:No, it is Divo, as in IL(L) Divo - brought to us by Simon Cowell of American idol fame. Apparently he thought a multi-national man-hunk quartet (one American and the rest European) singing pop-opera would get the average middle-aged woman hot and bothered enough to go out and buy their CD's, DVD's and other essentials.
No T.V.? I envy you.burnitdown wrote:It's times like this that I'm glad I don't own a TV and tend to unconsciously boycott the Hollywood/big media people. I miss out on all the things I'd need to be culturally well-rounded in the culture of voidness.keaggy220 wrote:No, it is Divo, as in IL(L) Divo - brought to us by Simon Cowell of American idol fame. Apparently he thought a multi-national man-hunk quartet (one American and the rest European) singing pop-opera would get the average middle-aged woman hot and bothered enough to go out and buy their CD's, DVD's and other essentials.
I guess I can stop hiding this "Bon Jovi Live in Istanbul" CD now.
I can't be the only one here...?keaggy220 wrote:No T.V.? I envy you.
I had a good friend and her husband throw the tv's out about 15 years ago - at the time I though they were crazy, now I fully acknowledge their wisdom.burnitdown wrote:I can't be the only one here...?keaggy220 wrote:No T.V.? I envy you.
It's easy to not have a TV. If one shows up in the house, cut the wires. Then put a plant on it. If you're really savvy, you'll put a carnivorous plant on it, as they're more fun to watch than anything on the airwaves.
This is the biggest problem. I don't have an easy way around that one except lead by examplekeaggy220 wrote:However, my wife and two little girls watch more tv than I would like them to watch, but I suppose we all need some way to escape from real life.
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