Mel Belli wrote on Oct 14
th, 2009 at 3:40pm:
The last album barely cracked the 1,000 mark in sales.
Really? Jesus wept. I know it was released on a very small label, and maybe the distribution potential was a bit limited, but thats hard to fathom. You'd think that even having Bob Dylan on one track would make it even slightly collectible.
I think it came out the same week as 'Goddess in the Doorway' and that album's sales were crappy as well.
Its hard to comprehend that a band that can get four or five million people worldwide to fork out large amounts of money on concert tickets and which can still put out million selling studio albums cant muster more than a thousand hardcore fans who will buy a solo album by one of the band members. Ronnie even promoted it on the Jonathan Ross Show too - that should have helped a bit.
Makes you wonder who, 8 years later in an area of plummeting record sales due to illegal downloading, who his new album is going to attract. Especially as Ronnie is about as popular at the minute as a fart in a space suit - his own family can't even be relied upon to buy it.