Comments on: Attention Everyone: Please Stop Reporting Chart Data That Isn’t Backed Up By Hard Numbers, Because Doing So Makes You Look Dumb

By: Maura

Maura — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:20:19 +0000

“But isn’t it a fact, that at least at Amazon US, that Susan Boyle has already sold more CD’s in 2 days than Whitney Huston has the whole time hers have been available there?”

No. Amazon’s charts aren’t cumulative; in fact, it says “Updated hourly.” right at the top of the rundown. So she’s been outselling Whitney in the time that the two have been available simultaneously, i.e., since Wednesday. Is it impressive? Well sure. Does it mean anything in a greater sense? Not really, for the reasons outlined above.

By: Marty

Marty — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:03:43 +0000

Ok, I see your point, and the stories are a bit misleading.
But isn’t it a fact, that at least at Amazon US, that Susan Boyle has already sold more CD’s in 2 days than Whitney Huston has the whole time hers have been available there?
Maybe I’m wrong, but it does sound like a pretty impressive start.
I’d expect Whitney to sell a lot more CD’s in the near future since she’s promoting it now, but as the time gets closer to Susan’s release date, her sales should go way up too.
They really shouldn’t make this out to be some sort of competition, I hope they both do really good.

By: chachwitablog

chachwitablog — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:41:48 +0000

Perez is such a f*cking dirtbag idiot.

More on topic, though, can you please run a different picture for your Susan Boyle stories from now on? That one is really hard to look at.

By: barnok

barnok — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:35:20 +0000

“Because Doing So Makes You Look Dumb” . . . . so right! PerezHilton.com just ran the same story. MEGADUMB Mario Lavandeira!

By: barnok

barnok — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:12:12 +0000

Hi Maura!
It’s not only the charts that get distorted/misrepresented in these articles that you are mentioning but the truth about almost anything. Many of these so-called “journalists” online are irresponsible and are spreading lies, largely so that they can further whatever agenda they have. I’ve come to like reading your posts here because your articles are responsible and are not based on fiction. I get hurt sometimes when I see that you kinda have something negative to say about my favorite artists, but I always step back and look at your article, and grudgingly agree to most of it. One notorious site that publishes rubbish online is Examiner.com. This is joke of a website. There’s almost no truth in any of their articles published and no one is policing them. A lot of their stuff . . . you get on the first page of the Google search engine. That angers me . . . for people to have to read about these lies. Ugh!