Eberhard Weber Quotes

Bands that say they don't care about how their records sell are liars.

It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.

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

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

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

You don't really need a lot of hype and to be famous to sell songs.

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals.

I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.

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

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.

You look at what One Direction has done and just say, 'That is just lucky;' it is not. It is happening because they are talented boys, good looking lads; and yes, their songs might not be the typical songs that lots of radios want to play, but they are great songs, pop records, that are massive across the world selling in huge numbers.

Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.

If you look at Adele, the reason she did so well was she created great music. It wasn't about a clever marketing trick.

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.

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.

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, and the second, 'Bye Bye Boy', reached the Top 20.

Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record.

The label doesn't do anything but put your record in the store, that's all they do. And tell you, you don't have a single... and tell you, it's not gonna sell... that's what the label does.

YouTube was really good for building a kind of core, loyal fanbase. I didn't want to be a YouTube artist as such. I mean, there are people who are able to release albums and live off YouTube, but I felt - and not in an arrogant way - that I could be commercial and credible if I really put my mind to it.

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.

D.C. is one my largest audiences. They buy tons of records of mine in Washington, D.C.

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.

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

Nowadays people sell millions of records that can't sing.