All Angels - Top classical download of 2006!

[Dave]

Music Week has just published an interesting report on classical album downloads and included is a table of the top 10 classical downloads of 2006. Here it is:

Top 10 UK Classical Downloads 2006

1. All Angels - All Angels
2. King's College Choir - Essential Carols
3. Hans Zimmer - Da Vinci Code OST
4. LSO/Davis - Holst/The Planets
5. Sting - Songs From the Labyrinth
6. Hans Zimmer - Gladiator OST
7. Berliner PO/Rattle - Holst/The Planets
8. BBC CO/Wordsworth - Last Night of the Proms Collection
9. Katherine Jenkins - Serenade
10. Hans Zimmer - Pirates of the Caribbean - OST

I think this is such good news that I've decided to start a separate thread for it. There is no link as this article and chart is in the paper Music Week magazine this week, maybe I'll be able to do a scan of it later.

This confirms what I've been seeing at iTunes ever since All Angels was released, they have consistently outsold everything else 'classical' in their charts - but I don't know why! Any ideas?

I think it's remarkable that All Angels came so far in front of Katherine - and the Fron Choir who aren't even in the top 10. It is even more remarkable that some core classical albums are well up in the chart battling it out with the big name classical crossover singers!

Anyway, although digital album sales are still fairly small compared to CDs, they are becoming increasingly important and it's good to see All Angels at the forefront of the digital revolution.

The article also mentions that Universal Classics and Jazz will tomorrow be announcing the setting up of their own classical download store for their artists - which include All Angels, Hayley and Katherine.

Possibly even more exciting is the prediction (in the article) that UCJ may have to abandon the Digital Rights Management (DRM) model - copy protection - in order to break the iTunes monopoly. And that - if it were to happen - would be the best thing to happen to digital (classical?) music since it started! ;D

Meanwhile, Three cheers for All Angels

[glow=yellow,6,1500] Number 1 ![/glow]

Dave

[richnorri]

Congratulations Charlotte, Daisy, Laura and Melanie! :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:



Lots of love to you all,

Richard xxxx

[Raven]

;D ;D ;D ;D

Congratulations All Angels!

Great news!

[Dave]

Here is the Music Week article, issue date 23th January 2007, page 6. All Angels aren't directly mentioned in the article unfortunately, but it's still quite interesting. And why oh why did they not publish a photo of All Angels, the number 1 in downloads? I quite like Katherine Jenkins but she was way down the list and the persistent priority she gets in the press is starting to annoy me.

Cheers, Dave

[postscript]

dave said:

Here is the Music Week article, issue date 23th January 2007, page 6. All Angels aren't directly mentioned in the article unfortunately, but it's still quite interesting. And why oh why did they not publish a photo of All Angels, the number 1 in downloads? I quite like Katherine Jenkins but she was way down the list and the persistent priority she gets in the press is starting to annoy me.

Could it be her photograph is:

• more immediately available--used before and they've already paid a comprehensive royalty?
  
• simply more copies of her photographs are around?
  
• could we email all obvious press editorials with AAI web reference where our people's superb shots of All Angels are to be found telling them they are royalty free--if the members concerned agree---to be used with the simple strap line 'courtesy of All Angels and the All Angels International web site'?
  

Peter S.