Electrical Storm
The life of Everett True as a postgraduate student
Monday, March 8, 2010
Taste formation
Everett True
can anyone point me in the direction of evidence that suggests good/bad music reviews influence sales?
25 February at 18:52
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Loene Carmen
anecdotal evidence of my own count?
25 February at 19:20 ·
Everett True
well.um. only if I can then back it up.
25 February at 19:20 ·
Rod Steele
There's no real evidence, but chances are, if you slagged off a band to people who religiously read reviews and share a reviewers taste in music - i guess its a sad proposition that they can't think for themselves, or music reviewers could use the power of their information to take over the world!!!
25 February at 19:23 ·
Loene Carmen
the only evidence i have for you is that i got a bunch of excellent reviews last record and sold maybe 200 copies...do what you will with that!
25 February at 19:27 ·
Everett True
ha ha ha! that's what I already figured.
25 February at 19:27 ·
Loene Carmen
well i'm happy to prove how useless the whole shebang is for you! i feel all academic now.
25 February at 19:38 ·
Everett True
yeah actually I don't know how applicable that is to my research, except to prove that influence can't be measured by statistical means alone. Which, um, I guess I know already.
25 February at 19:39 ·
Everett True
...not that that helps you, as an artist.
25 February at 19:40 ·
Loene Carmen
how bout a six star review then eh?
25 February at 19:41 ·
Justin Edwards
Generally Nickelback get pretty awful reviews but have sold like a gazillion albums. Somehow.
25 February at 19:54 ·
James Michael Lomas
If you could influence sales you would be a rich chummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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25 February at 20:41 ·
Lloyd Barrett
stuff about Metacritic? Companies not paying "bonuses" unless they got an 80+ averaged. But i'm sure that only affected computer games. Don't know if it affects film studies and can't imagine the record industry really caring. What about the P4K effect?
25 February at 20:52 ·
Gary Strickland
It seems that commercial radio has the greatest influence on mass potential in the US. Only a small population of Americans have ever heard of The Pixies, however; The White Stripes are a household name. The press loved The Pixies but your average office worker reads rubbish and mindlessly accepts the radio as their personal lord and savior. The general public can not distinguish The White Stripes from Nickelback.
25 February at 21:01 ·
Everett True
The Pk4 Effect is talked up by critics, who have a vested interest in stating how important other critics are. Is it really possible to separate criticism from all the other factors that go to up to influence somebody's choice on whether to purchase some music?
25 February at 21:05 ·
Michael Alan Goldberg
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah certainly benefited greatly saleswise from that first Pitchfork review...
25 February at 23:31 ·
Jason Reynolds
Pitchfork doesnt necessarily sell records. if you are an 8+ or 2 or less (& therefore a talking point - e.g. that Jet review) it can have an effect. But the netherworld inbetween can have no discerning effect. We had a release last year that was reviewed by P4K months after release, & so there was no other driver for sales. It got a decent high 6's review, maybe higher. Impact on record sales for that week & the one after? Zero.
26 February at 01:10 ·
Rich Jensen
Isn't it pretty obvious that no one would buy ANY Everett True records if you didn't write reviews?
26 February at 04:57 ·
Lloyd Barrett
I think Pitchfork grant exposure, more than sales. I wonder how many readers of that site open up another tab and look for the vaguely interesting sounding thing on a music blog?
26 February at 07:17 ·
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