<![CDATA[Home Shoppers Clogging Up The Phones With Requests For Music - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Home Shoppers Clogging Up The Phones With Requests For Music - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Sat, 05 May 2007 12:54:59 EDT Sat, 05 May 2007 12:54:59 EDT http://idolator.com/tunes/qvc/home-shoppers-clogging-up-the-phones-with-requests-for-music-257790.php <![CDATA[Home Shoppers Clogging Up The Phones With Requests For Music]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/qvc/home-shoppers-clogging-up-the-phones-with-requests-for-music-257790.php#c1408402 Another point: I doubt that they bother to point out that the recordings on the Sedaka disc are "re-records," rather than the original "hit" recordings that were heard on the radio.

djnak

]]> 33:257790:c1408402 Sat, 05 May 2007 12:54:59 EDT <![CDATA[Home Shoppers Clogging Up The Phones With Requests For Music]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/qvc/home-shoppers-clogging-up-the-phones-with-requests-for-music-257790.php#c1407741 I manage the music department in a very popular book store. I've got a regular customer who buys the most recent Il Divo CD every time she sees them on television. This last time, she looked at the cover and said, "Y'know, I think I bought this one."

"I think you did," I replied.

She paused for a moment, then shrugged. "Well, I don't know where it is. I'll get another one."

silkyjumbo

]]> 33:257790:c1407741 Sat, 05 May 2007 01:28:14 EDT <![CDATA[Home Shoppers Clogging Up The Phones With Requests For Music]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/qvc/home-shoppers-clogging-up-the-phones-with-requests-for-music-257790.php#c1406116 The question we have is: How many of these QVC appearances have prompted further delving into a band's back catalog--or even a second listen to the CD that was purchased?

Bingo. It's kind of like buying a painting of a sunset on vacation in the tropics - it feels right at that moment, but are you really going to hang the painting or even look at it again when you get home?

But this is the trend among savvy aftermarket music-sellers these days: catch consumers at a vulnerable moment - the moment they've finished watching the band on TV, the instant they leave a concert (cf. those new "instant" live CDs you can buy at certain shows containing the very concert you just heard, freshly burned). Once you've made the sale, who cares whether they ever play the piece of plastic?

In short, it's a smart sales strategy but a mediocre long-term artist-development strategy.

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:257790:c1406116 Fri, 04 May 2007 17:22:55 EDT <![CDATA[Home Shoppers Clogging Up The Phones With Requests For Music]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/qvc/home-shoppers-clogging-up-the-phones-with-requests-for-music-257790.php#c1405241 the thing that stood out to me is that someone admitted to being a fan of Train.

Hallux Valgus

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