[kj] MMXII actual UK sales: 3,843

[ADRIAN WASON]

Paul,
Look on the bright side!Killing Joke listeners are now 3% of the way to getting a debate in the houses of parliament on the subject of their choice!
Such as....

From: Paul Rangecroft <paul.rangecroft at gmail.com>
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net> 
Sent: Tuesday, 10 April 2012, 23:16
Subject: Re: [kj] MMXII actual UK sales: 3,843

I'd have thought gigs at £20+ a ticket would be where the money is at.
And merchandise at said gigs I guess. Don't bands see illegal
downloads as advertising for gigs now? If everyone who saw them in the
UK on the recent tour bought the album it would probably have got in
the top ten.

Anyway I'm sure you're right and KJ can eek out a living with your
long tail theory. I wasn't really lamenting how few people like them
but rather saying I don't blame them for doing an arena tour. To put
what must have been a lot of hard work into producing a great album
only for it to sell a few thousand must be hard to take. After all the
costs involved and the retailers taking their cut there can't be much
left over to share between the four of them.

On 4/10/12, Rheinhold Squeegee <kjlist at live.com> wrote:

>

> There are more bands releasing more music more cheaply with the ability to

> niche-market to a smaller segment while remaining profitable. This is the

> age of the long tail:

>

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tail

>

> Vinyl, special editions and live albums are where the money is at for

> warhorses like Motorhead and KJ.

>

> The 4k is probably only physical sales within the UK. I don't believe this

> includes downloads and it certainly doesn't include sharing. The metal

> community is notorious for its love of the torrents.

>

>

>

>

>

>

>> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:02:34 +0100

>> From: paul.rangecroft at gmail.com

>> To: gathering at misera.net

>> Subject: Re: [kj] MMXII actual UK sales: 3,843

>>

>> 4K, what's that - a medium sized venue? Paying £10 each. No wonder

>> they're doing this tour with The Cult.

>>

>> On 4/10/12, Nick Scott <npscott at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>> > Not only do I find it quite sad that on the first week of release UK

>> > sales only amount to not quite 4000 but also the fact thats enough to

>> > get as high a chart placing of 44.

>> >

>> > Have album sales declined that much? I remember back in the 80s and

>> > early 90s when regularly bands had 7" 12" and CD Single limited

>> > editions of around 10000 copies.

>> >

>> > On 9 April 2012 18:20, Rheinhold Squeegee <kjlist at live.com> wrote:

>> >> http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1049089&c=1

>> >>

>> >> But post-punk survivors Killing Joke, all of whom are now in their 50s,

>> >> rack

>> >> up their 13th chart album and extend their chart tenure to 32 years

>> >> with

>> >> an

>> >> album of that name debuting at number 44 (3,843 sales).

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