Idolator
To follow up on this morning's earlier post about AC/DC's entry into the digital-music world: I was just perusing the Hot Digital Tracks chart released today, and as it turns out, "You Shook Me All Night Long"—the only song that's individually available from the band's catalog, and the only one available as an over-the-air download—sold 13,000 digital singles, which placed it at No. 78 on this week's chart.
For those of you keeping score at home, that's 10 spots below Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" (15,000 tracks sold, 773,000 to date), and 34 slots ahead of Buckcherry's "Crazy Bitch," which sold 8,200 tracks this week, 50% of which were no doubt immediately put on CD-Rs used at strip clubs. (If you have sales figures for AC/DC's albums, drop a line; now I'm even more curious to see how many people are willing to jump through all those hoops just to have a digital copy of "Back In Black.")
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Umm, last I checked, you could get a "Back in Black" CD for the "nice price" at Fye, or about $9. And then rip your own.
It was a solid album, back in its day. My favorite song on it was the grinding "Givin' the Dog a Bone."
Judging by these charts all those who are hailing the digital revolution will be in for the same shock labels experienced after the initial sales boom of the CD format. Once again, it's a new format, people are re-buying the stuff they have in the previous format, and sales will plummet once that initial push is overwith.
Rebuying old records in a new format is way too 1982. Rip the CD people - it's easy, cheap and there's no DRM to stop you from playing it on every device ever made.
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