Million $ Guy

[virgogirl1980]

According 2 aria Guy sold 4 x platinum of Angles er which is 280,000 which is like the same but i think Guy must have sold more i remember it being number one 4 sooo long well at least i thourght i did maybe iam looking back with Rose coloured glass's

[Megan]

virgogirl1980 said:

According 2 aria Guy sold 4 x platinum of Angles er which is 280,000 which is like the same but i think Guy must have sold more i remember it being number one 4 sooo long well at least i thourght i did maybe iam looking back with Rose coloured glass's

I read sumwhere he sold 400 000 copies of it and like 600 000 of just as i am the album

[Sinead]

Megan said:

I read sumwhere he sold 400 000 copies of it and like 600 000 of just as i am the album

im sure he sold more than 400, 000 copies of the single :S
but he sold over a half a million of his album, so around 600, 000 sounds right

[prinia]

Angels Brought Me Here was the first dose of Idol - and Guy.

From memory they pressed around 140,000 and it came out on the Monday. By Monday night it was all but sold out (hence - it was the FASTEST selling single other than Elton John's single for Diana). Ollie, his brother didn't even get a copy.

At the store, when I picked my copy up at Myers around 5.15pm that night (Monday), they told me they had checked with BMG and were told that was all that was going to be released.

By Tuesday night more had been pressed and distributed, but POSSIBLY only around 100,000 more - I have no figures without going back.

The point was - Angels was on the album, which was to be released the following week. So why release more singles? A valid point.

So Guy and his first single was a learning curve for BMG and they were more ready in 2004. A very good marketing strategy - Anthony releases The Prayer in time for 2004 and CHristmas, huge sales and no album for some time, which would have, as Guys obviously would have, blocked out buyers who were willing to wait that extra week for the album. Anthony now can sit back, relax and work on his album which will be in 2005 - another marketing strategy. A learning curve which BMG could have thought about last year.

I still wonder whether Australia has a large enough cd population to keep racing after Idol singles and albums tho. These are all solo singers, and roughly in the pop genre (with little offshoots of genre of their own).

I'd prefer to see Idol for Bands this year. It would not only bring a new freshness to the scene, but give others a chance.

[jennzlb4life]

Sinead said:

Look what I found!
www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,10096788%255E10431,00.html

*copy of the article*


Million dollar jackpot for Idol stars

AUSTRALIAN Idol winner Guy Sebastian has been given a cheque for more than $1 million by his record label BMG.

The singer, who returns to Australia tomorrow after a south-east Asian tour, was handed the seven-figure cheque in April. The money is just a portion of Sebastian's income for the October to December quarter of 2003.
Idol runner-up Shannon Noll, who plans to audition for a role in Channel Nine's McLeod's Daughters, is next in line. He will receive his million dollar payday from BMG later this year.

Sebastian has sold 500,000 copies of his debut album, Just As I Am, in Australia. He earns approximately $2.60 for every $30 album sold. He also receives royalties for single sales and songwriting.

Sebastian's and Noll's manager, David Caplice, refused to comment on the $1 million cheques, but said: "With Idol, the acts can potentially do really well. The deal is well structured, and it's all good."

Noll has sold 350,000 copies of his debut album, That's What I'm Talking About, representing an income of $910,000. He also receives royalties for single sales and songwriting, plus earnings from his recent club tour.

Former pop star Garry Frost, the man behind Noll's debut single, What About Me? has also hit the jackpot.

The ballad, written more than 20 years ago, was based around Frost's experience taking an autistic child to a shop in Annandale.

It was a No.1 hit for Frost's band, Moving Pictures, in the early-1980s. Noll's version has sold 280,000 copies.

"I don't think I owe Shannon a beer or 10," Frost said. "I owe him a brewery."

The rights to What About Me? were once owned by John Farnham's manager, Glenn Wheatley. He sold them to publishing company Warner/Chappell. Frost is keen to buy the rights to the song.

yay go GUY!