Patti Scialfa Quotes

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

I've never sold a lot of records.

I think we'd sold a couple hundred records with our first album, maybe 1,000 at the most.

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

My biggest frustration is the lack of scale in the music industry. The fact that no one has sold 100 million copies of an album is frustrating.

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

Unless I've got Katy Perry on the cover of my CD, it's going to be tough to sell a lot of records.

I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.

We sold 1.5 million copies of the 'Abracadabra' album and 26,000 copies of 'Italian X-Rays.'

Because record companies do not routinely release sales figures the way film studios do, the weekly charts in trade publications like 'Billboard' provide the best independent measure of record appeal.

It's harder and harder to sell records now. You've got to give extra value. You've got to give people a reason to go out and buy it rather than burn a friend's copy.

Raoul' sold a respectable 700,000 copies without a hit single. It didn't take off. If you don't sell 8 million albums or 4 million albums again, everybody deems it a big failure.

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

It used to be that you made an album and then you went on the road to promote that album, hoping for good record sales. Well, good record sales basically don't exist any more, and the emphasis has been more on the live show.

I feel like I'd like to continue putting out records and start putting them out more rapidly than I have until now and for me if I can keep selling the records to the fans that already like me that's fine.

I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.