Thursday 26 October 2017

ARTIST RESEARCH - Commercial Success In The Digital Age

SPOTIFY

Picture used not updated to feature the current line-up (without Butler, plus Richard Oakes and Neil Codling)


Spotify clicks, most popular song by far is Beautiful Ones, 13.5m listens. This shows how compilation albums bring new attention to songs, with all the tracks being from there and not their original albums.



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Their most popular vids, with Beautiful Ones being the highest again by far with 11 million views:




Wiki:
In the year leading up to the release of their first album, Suede were the most written-about band in Britain.[34] The album Suede entered the British charts at number one, registering the biggest initial sales of a debut album since Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Welcome to the Pleasuredome a decade before.[10] It sold over 100,000 copies in its first week of release,[35] going gold on its second day.[36] The album's release was met with high critical praise and hype.[22] At the time it was hailed as "the most eagerly awaited debut since Never Mind The Bollocks by the Sex Pistols."[37] Some notable press at the time was the front cover of the April 1993 issue of Select, which is seen by many as the start of Britpop.[25] The album won the 1993 Mercury Prize.[36] The band donated the entire £25,000 in prize money to Cancer Research.[38] This was the only album released in the US under the name "Suede", where it remains the band's highest selling release.[39]

The Britpop wiki entry claimed it was the fastest-selling debut album in British history, I checked their source,  and it goes even further to say that:


By and large, Suede fulfilled the expectations, as they had a series of hit singles that all charted higher than the first, and their 1993 self-titled debut became the fastest-selling record in British history. 
However that gives no sourcing, so I don't think either are reliable.

This site goes on to talk about how they had much less success in the USA:
Suede may have become British stars in 1993, but they couldn't find a niche in America. During 1994, the band's star began to fade, as Butler left the group before the completion of their second album. That alone wouldn't have been enough to dim their stardom, but the band had created a monster with their debut album that soon outgrew the band itself. Over the course of 1994, no less than three bands emerged as massively popular artists, both commercially and critically. Of these bands, Blur was the first and most successful. 

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