I don't get it. It's like a herd-mentality type of thing. What do people expect to accomplish by buying someone's album
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ewd76-944-614898 — 13 years ago(May 18, 2012 05:59 AM)
It isn't any more part of the "grieving process" than Jack Nicholson threads are on IMDB. Which I have seen asserted. Most people don't even have a "grieving process" for dead celebrities. Even people that rush out and buy their music.
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george_aslf — 13 years ago(May 17, 2012 01:51 PM)
I think that one of the reasons is that when famous singers die they get a lot of publicity, radio and tv play their songs more frequently, tell stories about them, etc, and consequently more people pay attention to them (even those who did not listen to their songs much when they were alive). It's pretty much like a product that appears in so many commercials that eventually you buy it. Record companies take advantage of these deaths to make more money too -by releasing "new albums", previously unreleased songs, etc.
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tlavairt-1 — 13 years ago(May 17, 2012 02:29 PM)
Probably the same reason that when they die, people play their music. I played Teena Marie and Etta James' music several times over before they died. Same goes for Vesta Williams and Amy Winehouse. I guess it's a way for the fans to show their grievance. What I don't like is when a singer dies and people wear out their music. Michael Jackson has been dead for almost three years and every day when I go to work the play his songs so much that I hate it.
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HarlowMGM — 13 years ago(May 17, 2012 04:22 PM)
Donna currently has nine albums in Amazon's Hot 100 Best Sellers chart. That has to be very close to a record at Amazon for solo albums by a female vocalist in the Hot 100 and it may ev5b4en grow higher as I noticed a couple of other albums by her are in the 101-200 range.
I've never rushed out to buy albums by someone newly dead before because mainly if I'm a fan I already have most of their music. This is one time I am tempted to buy every cd by Donna I don't have, even though I have these tracks on vinyl.
I think people do it mainly because they realize how much they love this artist and how they've taken them for granted in recent years. I doubt very many people who are buying these cds are people who never cared for the performer in the past.
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pvd295 — 13 years ago(May 17, 2012 07:10 PM)
Sadly, all her Geffen catalog is OOP (1980-1987), as well as 1989's "Another Place and Time", 1991's "Mistaken Identity", 1996's release of the 1981 album "I'm a Rainbow". What's left is a few of her Casablanca albums still in print (including 'Bad Girls'), 'Christmas Spirit' from 1994, and a plethora of hits packages.
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CTReviews — 13 years ago(May 17, 2012 11:43 PM)
John Denver's album sales tripled after he died, and there was a joke that it had Kenny Rogers looking into an experimental plane.
But basically it just calls attention to the songs people remember from the artist and they feel like listening to them. Nobody is going to run out and buy Donna Summer's 2008 album. They are going to want to listen to all her vintage hits from back in the day. Touring has the same effect. The exposure increases album sales.
When Levon Helm died a few week ago, everything I read about him made me want to go to the library to get The Last Waltz DVD. Sure enough, somebody had checked it out earlier in the day. -
HarlowMGM — 13 years ago(May 20, 2012 04:12 PM)
But basically it just calls attention to the songs people remember from the artist and they feel like listening to them. Nobody is going to run out and buy Donna Summer's 2008 album. They are going to want to listen to all her vintage hits from back in the day. Touring has the same effect. The exposure increases album sales.
Actually, 2008's CRAYONS was in Amazon's Top 100 best sellers yesterday along with a whopping nine other Donna Summer albums including the hits package THE JOURNEY a5b4t #1. I don't know what they are now because their chart sales are updated hourly but I am sure the majority if not all of those albums are still in the Top 100.
The thing is most shops that sell cds probably only had 1-6 copies of Donna CDs in stock when she died so I don't know how it will translate on the national Billboard charts. I'm sure she will place at least four albums on Billboard's Hot 200 cds in a week or so though. -
crazyhellboy — 13 years ago(May 20, 2012 11:40 AM)
It was like that with Nirvana CDs. I had the cassette tape (remember those kiddies?) of Nevermind and a couple of months later when Kurt Kobain killed himself all the Nirvana CDs sold out EVERYWHERE - Tower Records, Sam Goody, The Wherehouse. If your under 25, there actually was a time you couldn't get music on itunes, you had to go into a physical store and buy them LOL.
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WarpedRecord — 12 years ago(May 25, 2013 10:20 PM)
It seems like you are making a statement rather than asking a question, and while I agree with your sentiment, I'm glad to hear people still buy albums. I just wish they'd support the performers they like (assuming that's why they're buying the albums) while the artists are alive.
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