Don't you worry Mr. Mr. Mr. Jorge, Whom I Adore, Whom I Adore, Whom I Adore. Next time I see some random dude with a gold tooth on the street, I'll punch him. This will hopefully knock is golden tooth out, which I will then pick up and send your way! You gotta start somewhere.
"Strong online popularity doesn't necessarily translate to real sales," says Steve Yegelwel, senior VP of A&R at Columbia Records.
Yegelwel cites OK Go to support his point. The act's famous "treadmill" video for the single "Here It Goes Again" was an Internet viral smash, viewed more than 1 million times on Yahoo Music and more than 11 million times on YouTube. But the album "Oh No" has sold slightly more than 200,000 copies, and the single was downloaded a little more than 450,000 times. Many of those sales came after the song was added to more traditional promotional outlets such as MTV.
Lety, thanks for finding this and posting it. I really appreciate both the article and the excerpt and hearing a probably reliable recent sales figure. I wish this CD would sell a lot better than it has. They deserve better! I keep working on it.
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Oh, gold HOUSE! Crap ...
haha nice.
That may be the alcohol talking and I may not find it so funny when I'm sober, but for now--I laughed out loud when I saw that. mmm, happy hour....
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