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Tuesday, July 05, 2005


The Live 8 effect



Sales increase at HMV between Sunday June 26 and Sunday July 3:

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%
11 Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters : 174%
12 Mariah Carey - Greatest Hits : 170%
13 Snoop Dogg - Rhythm & Gangsta : 166%
14 The Killers - Hot Fuss : 131%
15 U2 - Best of: 1990-2000 : 116%
16 Elton John - Greatest Hits: 1970-2002 : 111%
17 Keane - Hopes and Fears : 101%
18 The Beatles - 1 : 71%
19 Snow Patrol - Final Straw : 69%
20 REM - Reveal : 50%
21 Stereophonics - Language Sex Violence Other? : 36%
22 Coldplay - X&Y : 3%
23 The Libertines - Up The Bracket - : (minus) 35%

I'm not sure why the Libertines were on this list, but then I didn't really watch any of Live 8 either. Anyone shed any light on this?



posted by Paul at 2:07 pm


2 Comments:

Blogger mike said...

pete docherty did that duet with elton john, that may explain it in some way

Tuesday, July 05, 2005 5:35:00 pm  
Blogger Paul said...

I'd never thought of that! How stupid am I. It's his own fault for taking a stage with the old drama queen ... (oh hang on, which one am I talking about now)

Tuesday, July 05, 2005 10:12:00 pm  
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