Interesting Variety article about Oprah's effect on music sales. Similar to her effect on book sales, but no "music club" is planned.
If, as current conventional wisdom maintains, "TV is the new radio" in terms of influencing record sales, then "The Oprah Winfrey Show" is the equivalent of a 100,000-watt Mexican border radio station.
This fall, Winfrey's popular afternoon talker, which claims an average daily viewership of 6.2 million, played a key role in sending new CD titles to the top slot of the U.S. album charts.
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In mid-October, Canadian vocalist Michael Buble's album "Crazy Love" debuted at No. 1 with 132,000 copies sold in just three days. His label, Warner Bros., had moved the release up to Oct. 9 to coincide with Buble's appearance on Winfrey's telecast.
"Oprah is the one thing everyone wants," he adds. "If you get that call back from her production people, my God, it's the Holy Grail."
via Variety.
My second choice for the headline was "Oprah = 100.000 watt Mexican Border Radio Station".
lol you should have gone with that headline!
The alternative headline was best.
if her ratings spike from monday will you post it
Why would you talk about Oprah today, and not mention that she is having the controversial Sarah Palin on?
well, she didn’t help whitney houston’s dud stay at the top of the charts…
LoL…Sarah Palin is not controversial…the media is…and didn’t Oprah announce she was leaving TV a couple of years ago…when is that happening…?!
“Controversial” is not a bad word…
Oprah has her own share of controversies. Not anyone I know thinks Oprah is a joke.
Whitney’s dud? Her album has done pretty decently (it will pass 800K soon in the USA), without having a big hit single or anything (the title track only peaked at No. 70 on the Hot 100 singles chart).
Maybe Milli Vanilli can make a comeback on Oprah