[2013-03-25] Album "5"

[User22]

Thanks to ZeFox from AF:

a priori SONY a posé un ultimatum a alizée, il aurait un seuil minimum de 15 000 ventes a atteindre pour que ce soit rentable, donc il ont proposé a alizée de faire un album pop ou alors il la mettait à la porte !
on peut donc comprendre pourquoi unr etour a la pop est annoncé
j'ai eu vent aussi de "rentrée 2011" !!!

a prendre avec des pincettes, mais cette personne m'est chère, j'ai confiance en ces propos, donc qui vivra verra !

Sony issued an ultimatum to Alizée: a minimum amount of 15,000 sales must be reached. So Sony suggested that Alizée should release a pop album! We can now understand why a return to pop was announced! I also heard "September 2011"! Take it with a grain of salt, but that person is dear to me, I trust in these words, so only time will tell!

This is a rumor that Alessandro from AF posted that Zefox said. But I don't know where Zefox heard this from yet. I'll try to get more information.

[Fèvier]

Fantabulous!!!
Can't wait!

[lefty12357]

So it appears Sony needs to sell at least 15,000 units in order to be profitable. That's not very many, so I assume they want Alizée to foot the bill for the recording and other up front costs and deliver them a basically finished product. I guess that's no surprise considering I believe that's how they did Psych and UEDS.

The word ultimatum is a bit ominous though. It almost sounds like they are giving her one last chance. Either way, until we hear different, this is still just a rumor. But it sounds plausible. And it may turn out to be a very good thing for her. Let's hope, anyways...

[Naft]

Originally Posted by lefty12357

So it appears Sony needs to sell at least 15,000 units in order to be profitable. That's not very many, so I assume they want Alizée to foot the bill for the recording and other up front costs and deliver them a basically finished product. I guess that's no surprise considering I believe that's how they did Psych and UEDS.

The word ultimatum is a bit ominous though. It almost sounds like they are giving her one last chance. Either way, until we hear different, this is still just a rumor. But it sounds plausible. And it may turn out to be a very good thing for her. Let's hope, anyways...

But if she sells 15,000 records (Shouldn't be that hard now should it? She still has her name on the CD and that will sell a fair share, especially if it's a new pop-album) they might take it further, so it could be kind of an "all or nothing" type of deal. Then again I doubt that she's done with music even if Sony won't do their thing, she's only 26 and loves doing what she does.

[sumi1]

Originally Posted by lefty12357

So it appears Sony needs to sell at least 15,000 units in order to be profitable. That's not very many, so I assume they want Alizée to foot the bill for the recording and other up front costs and deliver them a basically finished product. I guess that's no surprise considering I believe that's how they did Psych and UEDS.

The word ultimatum is a bit ominous though. It almost sounds like they are giving her one last chance. Either way, until we hear different, this is still just a rumor. But it sounds plausible. And it may turn out to be a very good thing for her. Let's hope, anyways...

Didn't UEDS sell 20,000 CDs. In addition, include the sales from 1000 expensive box-sets and digital downloads. So, if 15,000 CD sales is the break even point UEDS was marginally profitable.

Assuming that the next album will be more "mainstream", it should not be that difficult to sell 15,000 albums.

But again, rumors and speculations

Edit:

Originally Posted by Aaronius31

Time to quote myself from AF lol:

Great minds thinking alike, simultaneously :P

[User22]

Originally Posted by sumi1

Great minds thinking alike, simultaneously :P

Sweet, now i know I'm not hallucinating when I see they want her to sell a WHOPPING 15,000 CDs I just don't think she can do it lol. 15,000 is an insane amount lol. Okay, I've dished out my sarcasm for the night...

[pepelepew]

150,000 albums minimum sounds more plausible. Eitheer way I hope there is some truth to the rumor.

[Deepwaters]

Yeah, I was thinking someone dropped a zero there. UEDS is the firsts album she's done that's sold less than 150k, but even it sold more than 15k. (Over a million for Gourmandises, 300k for MCE, 200k for Psych. So UEDS is her first commercial failure.)

[DrSmith]

Originally Posted by pepelepew

150,000 albums minimum sounds more plausible.

150k is higher than Platinum in France (100k). That's sort of a big demand.

Edit:

Originally Posted by Deepwaters

Yeah, I was thinking someone dropped a zero there. UEDS is the firsts album she's done that's sold less than 150k, but even it sold more than 15k. (Over a million for Gourmandises, 300k for MCE, 200k for Psych. So UEDS is her first commercial failure.)

Where do you get these figures? (Just curioso.

[Mon Maquis]

Originally Posted by sumi1

Didn't UEDS sell 20,000 CDs. In addition, include the sales from 1000 expensive box-sets and digital downloads. So, if 15,000 CD sales is the break even point UEDS was marginally profitable.

Assuming that the next album will be more "mainstream", it should not be that difficult to sell 15,000 albums.

I dont know where you are getting your stats from but I know it sold 5,000 copies.

http://www.chartsinfrance.net/Alizee/news-70847.html