HA! Rosie vs The Donald is pretty funny huh?
Yeah, but it's so obvious he's just trying to promote The Apprentice, like he did last year when he feuded with Martha Stewart.
But all I need to know is that Ivanka will be having a bigger role on the show.
About Billboard, this started, I think, when they started having "college" charts which were based, not on sales, but on college radio play, I believe.
I'm not sure if it was based on sales. A lot of those college stations would get lists of songs to push from someone...maybe it was CMJ? I dunno.
I would like to see Morrissey release a new record and have it go to Number One. Lots of bands have first week sales that make them number one, because the entire fanbase gets out and buys the record at the same time.
How many first week album sales does it take to get to #1?
Hmm:
Taylor Hicks' album sold a lot of copies last week, but he couldn't quite crack the top of the charts. Nor could he claim the title of best-selling "Idol" debut of 2006.
The "American Idol" winner's debut moved 298,000 copies in its first week of release, a pretty strong debut. It was good enough for the No. 2 spot on the Billboard 200 album chart, behind rapper Young Jeezy's "The Inspiration," which sold 352,000 copies its first week.
300,000+ in one week is a tall order for Morrissey! It would be cool, but if it was gonna happen it would've happened back in the early '90s. He came dangerously close to breaking into the mainstream back then, but it was just too tough a nut to crack.
And it's an ever-tougher nut, with most DJs not allowed to play him even if they wanted to. I always hear about how David Bowie first broke in America because a station in Cleveland just decided to play him on their own. Bowie was a weird guy, yet he got played on the biggest station before most in the States had heard of him, and a working class Midwest steel town embraced him, sexual ambiguities and all. They'd play entire concerts by artists like that right in the middle of the day.
I only ever hear Morrissey on Sirius radio, and I mostly only see him on TV when the gay network LOGO shows
Who Put The M In Manchester. Where are the 300,000 gonna come from? If "First of the Gang to Die" didn't get much airplay, nothing will.
If he cares about charts, he should stick with the British charts. He'll always remain a cult pop star in the USA, a fate that was probably sealed when Johnny Marr ditched him.
But who knows, maybe some trendy act like Gnarls Barkley will cover him like they did the Violent Femmes. I doubt there'll be a Snoop Dogg Featuring Morrissey single though. So...I know it's not gonna happen someday.
What's cooler than charts, though, is when a song becomes remembered for the ages. Shane MacGowan once said how his dream was to add to the canon of Irish songs that go back through Irish history. Something like that. He's probably succeeded with at least a couple of his songs, seeing as how "Fairytale of NY" is widely loved. When my cousin was in school in Sweden, her choir teacher had them do that song! I was playing it and she was like, "Heeey, we sang this in school!" So I guess it's already regarded as a classic Irish song.
Morrissey said something on that
NY Doll DVD about how he thinks the NY Dolls' songs will be remembered for the ages, and the best pop music of the 20th century will be remembered forever just as people remember Beethoven. Will some of Morrissey's songs be remembered by a lot of people 200 years from now, or just by a few historians of 20th Century pop music? Will only a few artists really be remembered, like the Stones and Elvis? The best of Morrissey's songs seem too good not to be, but who knows.
Remember when he was talking about how he was approached to have his lyrics published in book form? That might help. So might writing a really great autobiography before he dies, something regarded as better than just another pop star's book for his fans to buy. I kinda think that's what his master plan is! And what gets rememebered isn't always what was most popular in its time.