[2013-03-25] Album "5"

[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.

[Deepwaters]

Originally Posted by DrSmith

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

Hmm, well, I don't know what to think, then. I guess if we're talking only sales in France rather than world-wide, that would be excessive, but 15,000 is just way low. I'm pretty sure even UEDS at least came close to that. It was some 20,000 worldwide, which is piss-poor for Alizée but still.

Where do you get these figures? (Just curioso.

I just grabbed it from the Wiki. Which has now been updated to give Psych 300,000 sales, which means it tied MCE at 6 months. It did much worse than MCE in France, though.

[Scruffydog777]

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..............

The word ultimatum is a bit ominous though. It almost sounds like they are giving her one last chance........................ ...

I think Lefty is on the right trail. 15,000 doesn't sound like a high number at all to give her as an ultimatum. Maybe they just threw the word ultimatum in there because they felt she didn't work hard enough on UEDS or maybe they feel she didn't do enough to promote it. Maybe they felt she didn't work hard enough to make a tour with CM happen. We don't know what goes on behind those studio doors, but I'm sure Sony has a good idea what does.

[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

[Euphoria]

The only thing that saved Psychedelices was Mexico. If you look back at the charts, Psychedelices actually dropped faster in sales in France than UEDS. The only thing that sold Alizee albums in the beginning was Mylene Farmer's name on it.

[Deepwaters]

Originally Posted by Euphoria

The only thing that saved Psychedelices was Mexico. If you look back at the charts, Psychedelices actually dropped faster in sales in France than UEDS. The only thing that sold Alizee albums in the beginning was Mylene Farmer's name on it.

You're much too young to be this crotchety.

Mylène's name surely helped, and her talent helped more, but if that were enough by itself then Lisa would have been a chart-topper. As for Psych, what you say is true but so what? France is not the world. The fact remains that Psychédélices sold 300,000 copies in six months -- doesn't matter where or to whom. That makes it a commercial success.

UEDS is a commercial failure not because it didn't sell well in France, but because it didn't sell well period. If her next album sells well globally, it doesn't matter if it fails to sell a single disc in France.

[Marquis<3Alizée]

So is this whole rumor true or no!! That's all I want to know! Then we can discuss!