Casey Donovan - only double platinum?

[Sarch]

Australian Idol 2 winner Casey Donovan debuts on the singles chart at #1
this week. But it's only managed to achieve a double platinum accreditation
(~140,000 units). Good gawd, it's a failure! <g>

Seriously though, take these figures with a grain of salt. However, it's
still interesting to look at because first week sales accreditations are
usually a reflection of retailer enthusiasm as well. Retailers may be wary
of her appeal. The fact that she wasn't able to match Guy Sebastian's debut
might have BMG worried, especially when Australian Idol 2 rated better than
the first season.

On December 19th, "The Prayer" by Anthony Callea is released. I would not
be surprised if it matches or eclipses Casey's first week sales award
figure. I believe Casey's debut has been crippled by a dire song. Callea on
the other hand may struggle to get airplay.

Sarch

[DragonLass]

"Sarch" <sarch_usenet@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On December 19th, "The Prayer" by Anthony Callea is released. I would not
> be surprised if it matches or eclipses Casey's first week sales award
> figure. I believe Casey's debut has been crippled by a dire song. Callea
on
> the other hand may struggle to get airplay.

It will be interesting to see which radio stations will be prepared to sell
out their format in order to put this song on the air. Nova is a pretty
sure bet but i'm not so sure about the others.
Unless they release it with a *shudder* dance remix version at the same
time.

[corks]

both of them will disappaer faster than you can say vanilla ice

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"DragonLass" <dragonlass@removethis-e-garfield.com> wrote in message
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> "Sarch" <sarch_usenet@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:31ib1gF3ciousU1@individual.net...
>
> > On December 19th, "The Prayer" by Anthony Callea is released. I would
not
> > be surprised if it matches or eclipses Casey's first week sales award
> > figure. I believe Casey's debut has been crippled by a dire song. Callea
> on
> > the other hand may struggle to get airplay.
>
> It will be interesting to see which radio stations will be prepared to
sell
> out their format in order to put this song on the air. Nova is a pretty
> sure bet but i'm not so sure about the others.
> Unless they release it with a *shudder* dance remix version at the same
> time.
>
>

[yoo-hoo]

"corks" <corks67@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> both of them will disappaer faster than you can say vanilla ice
>
> --

Vanilla Who? <g> ;-)

[Gene Mean]

"Sarch" <sarch_usenet@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Australian Idol 2 winner Casey Donovan debuts on the singles chart at #1
> this week. But it's only managed to achieve a double platinum
accreditation
> (~140,000 units). Good gawd, it's a failure! <g>
>
> Seriously though, take these figures with a grain of salt. However, it's
> still interesting to look at because first week sales accreditations are
> usually a reflection of retailer enthusiasm as well. Retailers may be wary
> of her appeal. The fact that she wasn't able to match Guy Sebastian's
debut
> might have BMG worried, especially when Australian Idol 2 rated better
than
> the first season.
>
> On December 19th, "The Prayer" by Anthony Callea is released. I would not
> be surprised if it matches or eclipses Casey's first week sales award
> figure. I believe Casey's debut has been crippled by a dire song. Callea
on
> the other hand may struggle to get airplay.
>
> Sarch

I guess her record label didn't buy enough copies back...

[Sarch]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 01:44:39 +1100, Dr Zoidberg wrote:

> According to undercover.com.au it only sold 35,817 last week, so about 1% of
> the people who watched the finale have decided to buy the song so far. Let's
> hope they now realize that it's better to release a decent song by an
> unknown writer instead of a piece of crap by Diane Warren.
>
> http://www.undercover.com.au/news/2004/dec04/20041206_caseydonovan.html

Thanks for the link. You may have noticed I posted it over in aus.tv.

>> On December 19th, "The Prayer" by Anthony Callea is released. I would
>> not be surprised if it matches or eclipses Casey's first week sales
>> award figure. I believe Casey's debut has been crippled by a dire
>> song. Callea on the other hand may struggle to get airplay.
>
> It will probably outsell Donovan's track fairly easily but you're right, it
> probably won't get much airplay. If they make a dance mix of it they might
> play it though...

Anthony's rendition of The Prayer worked because we saw the energy and
emotion in his performance. I don't think that'll translate well over to a
studio recording. Having said that, I am looking forward to its commercial
release and I'm sure there are a lot of enthusiastic "fans" of the song out
there.

Sarch
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