Posted on 12/08/2016 12:35:05 PM PST by nwrep
A mammoth box set of Mozart’s music is officially the best-selling CD release of 2016.
Mozart 225: The New Complete Edition has sold a total of 1.25 million CDs in the five weeks since its release, announced Universal Music Group via Billboard.
The anthology, containing every musical work written by famed Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), has managed to beat this year’s hit albums from stars including Drake, Beyoncé, Rihanna and Kanye West.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
What’s the difference between Mozart and Drake, Beyoncé, Rihanna and Kanye West?
Mozart had talent. I guarantee that 200 yeara after the other four are dead, no one will be listening to their “music.”
Way to go, Wolfgang!
100 years from now, people will be listening to Mozart. Performing Mozart. Studying Mozart.
The others?
< snort >
Yeah. Right.
Yo Imma let you finish but ... Michael Jackson had the best selling album OF ALL TIME!!
The day talent has anything to do with sales all the record company exec will take massive pay cuts because anybody could do their job then. No the real news here is 1.25 million sales wins the year, that’s basically nothing. That’s single platinum, that shouldn’t even be top 20 on the year. Of course last year nobody went platinum, this is a collapsed market.
Do they only count CD sales, or does “CD sales” include downloads?
Rock Me, Amadeus.
That set is a rip-off! I checked. Mozart doesn’t even play keyboards or do the opera vocals!
$220 for the set...I’ll wait till its marked down
in 10 years, no one will remember kanye or beyonce
This is not a bad deal BUT not as good a deal as I got on a similar set about 10 years ago ... everything composed by Mozart in about 130 CDs shipped to the door for $100.00.
I know. It’s obvious they hired a bunch of “session” players for these recordings. The man doesn’t play a single note on even ONE of the 225 CDs...
;-)
You mean people BUY classical music CDs?
Well rock me, Amadeus.
Finally, some good news on the culture front.
A Bach guy myself, but it’s good to see appreciation for the classical greats over the garbage that purports to be ‘music’ now.
Digital download counts, but downloads of singles (just like in the days of 45s) won’t count for albums. Which is probably what’s killing the album sales. The pop record formula of 3 or 4 good songs and filler doesn’t work well with so many ways to just get the songs you want. Used to be they’d “protect” one or two songs so people had to buy the album, now that’s not possible.
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