<![CDATA[David Cook: The Conspiracy Theories Continue! - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[David Cook: The Conspiracy Theories Continue! - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:52:41 EDT Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:52:41 EDT http://idolator.com/383097/david-cook-the-conspiracy-theories-continue <![CDATA[David Cook: The Conspiracy Theories Continue!]]> http://idolator.com/383097/david-cook-the-conspiracy-theories-continue#c5345405 @misssixx:

How do you explain this then?

MikeBrownDelendaEst

]]> 33:383097:c5345405 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:52:41 EDT <![CDATA[David Cook: The Conspiracy Theories Continue!]]> http://idolator.com/383097/david-cook-the-conspiracy-theories-continue#c5341148 cook didn't put the cd on amazon.com and AI pulled it because someone else was making money off of the cd not cook. AI had all contestants take their music off everything, even their myspace pages when they found out they were going to hollywood week....david is not making any money from the cd

misssixx

]]> 33:383097:c5341148 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:49:24 EDT <![CDATA[David Cook: The Conspiracy Theories Continue!]]> http://idolator.com/383097/david-cook-the-conspiracy-theories-continue#c5338262 @yayadiaw: don't i know it. (dang budgets.) thanks.

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:383097:c5338262 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:16:46 EDT <![CDATA[David Cook: The Conspiracy Theories Continue!]]> http://idolator.com/383097/david-cook-the-conspiracy-theories-continue#c5337477 You guys really need to invest in a soundscan account.

It sold 885 copies this week (all digital), or about half of what would be required to make the digital albums chart.

MikeBrownDelendaEst

]]> 33:383097:c5337477 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:48:23 EDT <![CDATA[David Cook: The Conspiracy Theories Continue!]]> http://idolator.com/383097/david-cook-the-conspiracy-theories-continue#c5336979 @extracrispy: damn that was a good one.

GotanOrange

]]> 33:383097:c5336979 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:33:37 EDT <![CDATA[David Cook: The Conspiracy Theories Continue!]]> http://idolator.com/383097/david-cook-the-conspiracy-theories-continue#c5335107 Just to make this part of this post -- Maura and I were discussing this offline earlier...

I think the reasons for the Soundscan no-show are a combination of theories 1 and 2 above, but I don't think anything terribly sinister is going on.

First, sales: full-album digital sales really are, still, a small fraction of phyiscal. In weeks where a blockbuster album sets a digital record, it's often with sales in the low five figures (Kanye last fall was a notable exception). So imagine that those sales are mostly Apple's, and imagine that Amazon's digital sales overall are about one-eighth to one-tenth (I might even be generous there) of Apple's. It's entirely plausible that Cook's sales--even at No. 1 on Amazon, especially for an album that got pulled over two days--numbered less than a grand.

I don't believe the Idol producers could get Amazon to not report legitimate sales of something. They do that with iTunes only because of their special overall business relationship with Apple--and since the day-after-downloads feature is new for this season, they clearly negotiated that deal point before the season started.

However, I do believe Idol has the clout to tell Amazon, "Please pull this album: 19 owns his recording contract now, we want to not dilute his sales, and we'll have new product to sell you later." (Not a deep, dark secret -- even if Cook were to get voted out tonight, he's a shoo-in to record a 19/BMG-distributed album.)

That, plus the short window of sales, accounts for the Soundscan no-show.

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:383097:c5335107 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:34:57 EDT <![CDATA[David Cook: The Conspiracy Theories Continue!]]> http://idolator.com/383097/david-cook-the-conspiracy-theories-continue#c5334958 @GotanOrange: That's not his hand. It doesn't say "Give Back" on it.

extracrispy

]]> 33:383097:c5334958 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:29:43 EDT <![CDATA[David Cook: The Conspiracy Theories Continue!]]> http://idolator.com/383097/david-cook-the-conspiracy-theories-continue#c5334709 @tigerpop: Now that's a new owner I could learn to love...

Thierry

]]> 33:383097:c5334709 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:22:21 EDT <![CDATA[David Cook: The Conspiracy Theories Continue!]]> http://idolator.com/383097/david-cook-the-conspiracy-theories-continue#c5334659 The whole "keeping the real feelings of the voting public secret" is such a ridiculous charade to begin with. There are a hundred ways to guage the popularity of AI contestants that the shows' producers can't possibly suppress, so the fact that they keep jumping to control the ones they can is an exercise in futility. As long as noone within the phone company is leaking voting statistics or something, it should all be fair game and out in the public.

Al Shipley

]]> 33:383097:c5334659 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:20:41 EDT <![CDATA[David Cook: The Conspiracy Theories Continue!]]> http://idolator.com/383097/david-cook-the-conspiracy-theories-continue#c5334446 If those are cook's fingerprints on the cover, someone better steal his identity quick!

GotanOrange

]]> 33:383097:c5334446 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:14:05 EDT <![CDATA[David Cook: The Conspiracy Theories Continue!]]> http://idolator.com/383097/david-cook-the-conspiracy-theories-continue#c5334111 I want to see "Analog Heart" in the worst album cover contest this year.

neworiginals

]]> 33:383097:c5334111 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:03:03 EDT <![CDATA[David Cook: The Conspiracy Theories Continue!]]> http://idolator.com/383097/david-cook-the-conspiracy-theories-continue#c5333406 Can you guys change the banner up top so it reads "Mudcrutch presents Idolator"?

tigerpop

]]> 33:383097:c5333406 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:35:16 EDT