Jon,
Do you think that we could say with some confidence that this prove's Garth
Brooks makes music according to the lowest common denominator?
BTW - does anyone know how well Garth boy does internationally?
>> Garth also made deals with certain chains (very large ones - Target,if I
>> remember correctly) to double weight reports to Soundscan on sales of his
>> double albums sold, which artificially boosts his total sales numbers.
>
>I don't think that's right. There was some controversy when the boxed set
>came out because each of the CDs was being counted as a unit, but that's
>true for all the RIAA-certified sales (it's specifically mention in the
>gold/platinum criteria grid). So a double album counts as two units whether
>it's Double Live or one of those Beatles Anthology sets. And while it's
>true that Elvis started out in a singles-oriented market, Elvis albums were
>coming out almost from the beginning. But even after accounting for Elvis's
>handicap in that regard, Brooks' sales record is still astonishing, given
>that he didn't make his first album until 1989, and his name is surrounded
>by the names of folks who have been selling for 2 or 3 times as long; the
>only one who comes even close to matching him is Mariah Carey, whose first
>album came out in 1990, and she's only sold half as many units.
>
>Jon Weisberger, Kenton County, KY [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://home.fuse.net/jonweisberger
