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DSB hits 4 million downloads


24th September 2010

Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’ has passed the four million downloads mark.
The song is the first track to be released pre-2000 that has surpassed the 3m downloads mark, let alone 4m. It is an amazing story for a song that was just the 65th best selling single in the US in the year that it was originally released (in 1981).
‘Don't Stop Believin' hit the 1 million mark in paid downloads in August 2007 following a high profile spot during the finale of US TV classic, The Sopranos. It reached 2 million in October 2008. It hit 3 million in August 2009. And thanks to dire musical TV comedy Glee, which featured the song during an early episode, Journey have managed to shift another MILLION copies in just a year.
The song peaked at number 9 on the Hot 100 in the US in the week ending Dec. 19, 1981. It has sold more than twice as many digital copies as all the other songs that were in the top 10 that week combined.

I guess it is still possible to make money in music in this day in age...

brandonpfn wrote:I guess it is still possible to make money in music in this day in age...

If bands recorded quality music, yes. This disposable shit they are releasing today? No wonder the music industry is treading water....

That's pretty damn impressive...Now I just wonder how any copies have been downloaded ILLEGALLY.

S2M wrote:

brandonpfn wrote:I guess it is still possible to make money in music in this day in age...

If bands recorded quality music, yes. This disposable shit they are releasing today? No wonder the music industry is treading water....

Amen. These crappy modern day artists are killing the concept of ALBUMs....crafting music over an hour, not just 3 mins...

Well day by day there are more that are believing.....I am wondering if they know the story, as it's Perry they are downloading.


Things that make you go HMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

Andrew wrote:

S2M wrote:

brandonpfn wrote:I guess it is still possible to make money in music in this day in age...

If bands recorded quality music, yes. This disposable shit they are releasing today? No wonder the music industry is treading water....

Amen. These crappy modern day artists are killing the concept of ALBUMs....crafting music over an hour, not just 3 mins...

This is what happens when the music industry targets middle school aged kids. They don't have the attention span to listen to an entire 70 minute album. This new target audience is also why music has become a sea of Disney robots (ex. Cyrus and Bieber).

portland wrote:Well day by day there are more that are believing.....I am wondering if they know the story, as it's Perry they are downloading.


Things that make you go HMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMM. I'm bettin' NO! Does this generation know who Perry is?? Right now, I think to the new generation "It's just JOURNEY"!!

Don wrote:http://www.planetrock.co.uk/Article.asp?id=1963161&spid=35830

DSB hits 4 million downloads


24th September 2010

Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’ has passed the four million downloads mark.
The song is the first track to be released pre-2000 that has surpassed the 3m downloads mark, let alone 4m. It is an amazing story for a song that was just the 65th best selling single in the US in the year that it was originally released (in 1981).
‘Don't Stop Believin' hit the 1 million mark in paid downloads in August 2007 following a high profile spot during the finale of US TV classic, The Sopranos. It reached 2 million in October 2008. It hit 3 million in August 2009. And thanks to dire musical TV comedy Glee, which featured the song during an early episode, Journey have managed to shift another MILLION copies in just a year.
The song peaked at number 9 on the Hot 100 in the US in the week ending Dec. 19, 1981. It has sold more than twice as many digital copies as all the other songs that were in the top 10 that week combined.

Anyone know what those other songs were?

RocknRoll wrote:

portland wrote:Well day by day there are more that are believing.....I am wondering if they know the story, as it's Perry they are downloading.


Things that make you go HMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMM. I'm bettin' NO! Does this generation know who Perry is?? Right now, I think to the new generation "It's just JOURNEY"!!

Does not matter......if they know it....they are still getting a Journey tune with Perry on lead vocals.

DSB will eventually be the most downloaded song ever. It's just a matter of time.

Don wrote:http://www.planetrock.co.uk/Article.asp?id=1963161&spid=35830

DSB hits 4 million downloads


24th September 2010

Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’ has passed the four million downloads mark.
The song is the first track to be released pre-2000 that has surpassed the 3m downloads mark, let alone 4m. It is an amazing story for a song that was just the 65th best selling single in the US in the year that it was originally released (in 1981).
‘Don't Stop Believin' hit the 1 million mark in paid downloads in August 2007 following a high profile spot during the finale of US TV classic, The Sopranos. It reached 2 million in October 2008. It hit 3 million in August 2009. And thanks to dire musical TV comedy Glee, which featured the song during an early episode, Journey have managed to shift another MILLION copies in just a year.
The song peaked at number 9 on the Hot 100 in the US in the week ending Dec. 19, 1981. It has sold more than twice as many digital copies as all the other songs that were in the top 10 that week combined.

I must be slow... as I just saw the article this morning 9.30 ... and posted it over in the journry form... HOW DAMN FUNNY IS THAT...

RocknRoll wrote:

portland wrote:Well day by day there are more that are believing.....I am wondering if they know the story, as it's Perry they are downloading.


Things that make you go HMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMM. I'm bettin' NO! Does this generation know who Perry is?? Right now, I think to the new generation "It's just JOURNEY"!!

My students request the Perry era music to be played. Apparently they dig Perry's voice. So I would say yes, they know full well of his voice, even if they don't know his name.

artist4perry wrote:

RocknRoll wrote:

portland wrote:Well day by day there are more that are believing.....I am wondering if they know the story, as it's Perry they are downloading.


Things that make you go HMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMM. I'm bettin' NO! Does this generation know who Perry is?? Right now, I think to the new generation "It's just JOURNEY"!!

My students request the Perry era music to be played. Apparently they dig Perry's voice. So I would say yes, they know full well of his voice, even if they don't know his name.

Well, we don't want to get them started on bad diction at such a young age, so only playing the Classic stuff makes a lot of sense.

Don wrote:

artist4perry wrote:

RocknRoll wrote:

portland wrote:Well day by day there are more that are believing.....I am wondering if they know the story, as it's Perry they are downloading.


Things that make you go HMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMM. I'm bettin' NO! Does this generation know who Perry is?? Right now, I think to the new generation "It's just JOURNEY"!!

My students request the Perry era music to be played. Apparently they dig Perry's voice. So I would say yes, they know full well of his voice, even if they don't know his name.

Well, we don't get them started on bad diction at such a young age, so only playing the Classic stuff makes a lot of sense.