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davidt
on Tuesday November 02 2004, @10:00AM
BlueGirl writes:
From the Reuters UK Business section: Music firm Sanctuary on track Mon 1 November, 2004 09:37 LONDON (Reuters) - Music firm Sanctuary is on track to meet market expectations for its financial year, boosted by acts ranging from lugubrious lyricist Morrissey to rowdy rabble rousers The Libertines, it says. London-based Sanctuary SGP.L , whose 150,000 track-strong music catalogue makes it the world's largest independent owner of music intellectual property rights, said it expected to benefit in the future from new albums and major tours by disco divas Destiny's Child and ageing rockers Iron Maiden. House broker Credit Suisse First Boston is forecasting a pretax profit of 18.3 million pounds for the year ending September 30. Sales were boosted by Morrissey's "Your are The Quarry" album, which sold in excess of 700,000 copies worldwide and The Libertines's self-named Number 1 album. "We continue to view the future with confidence in the belief that our business model provides the basis for sustainable growth and cash generation," the company said in a statement on Monday. The company said it had continued to invest in new recorded products, with advances to artists continuing at a similar level to last year's 14 million pounds. Sanctuary made several acquisitions this year, notably reggae catalogue, Creole Records, and artist management company TDM. It has since added artists multi-platinum selling urban artist Nelly, Mary J Blige and rock group Slipnot to its Artist Management arm. It expected fewer acquisitions in the future. Sanctuary said merchandising had also performed well, particularly in the United States. In early morning trading, Sanctuary shares were up 2.40 percent at 42-1/2 pence. --- blowblowblowaway sends a scan of the report from the Daily Mirror, Nov. 2, which features a Morrissey picture.
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Morrissey helps Sanctuary make its numbers; YATQ has sold 700,000 worldwide
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awesome (Score:0)
Sanctuary mentioned in Metro too. (Score:1)
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Beyonce safe? (Score:1)
(User #3556 Info)
Interesting (Score:0)
(User #12258 Info)
Sanctuary has soaked Morrissey fans. (Score:1)
Furthermore, Sanctuary seems to have gone to extraordinary lengths to try and cash in on Moz's fans. For example: all those singles released in a ridiculous amount of formats. Also - those silly & cheaply assembled DVD bonus discs with such laughably miniscule amounts of Morrissey content.
I do like the fact I can buy more of his music if I want to. I will also not criticize Sanctuary for being a business - they must make money. However, I sometimes can't help but feeling I've been taken advantage of.
Duncan The Chamois, or possibly:
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You Are The Quarry (Score:1)
After listening to this cd and seeing him perform several of the tracks live in concert, it's very evident he gave us something we haven't had since, in my opinion, "Your Arsenal" and the tour of the same release. After "Southpaw Grammar" and "Maladjusted", I wasn't sure if he was going to ever be able to accomplish something comparable to this again, as far as a successful cd and concert tour to follow it up. "AND I WONDER DOES ANYBODY FELL THE SAME WAY I DO?" (and is evil just something you are or something you do).
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forget jo, blow away (Score:1)
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moz should in fact play with destinys child (Score:0)
You Are The Quarry (Score:0)
How do the sales of YATQ compare... (Score:1)
Is there a website anywhere that shows an artists album sales anywhere?
How do Moz's sales compare to other "influential" but not heavely (radio) played artists?
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300,000 more need to be sold (Score:1)
(User #2789 Info | http://www.morrisseymusic.com/)
Ageing rockers Iron Maiden. (Score:1)
Maiden are still awesome. *thumbsup*
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whether it deserves it or not (Score:0)
This album is not as good as it has sold. Synthetizers are awful. Lyrics are not his best ones (i still think Southpaw had great - short but- great lyrics). Melodies are sometimes stupid or inexistant. What makes this album so precious is we waited for so long AND the terrific concerts which followed. Those songs were transcended by tremendous interpretations. That's what we like in it : the shows, the voice, not the CD or vynil. Concerts recordings are so far more superior to the original albums it is probable Moz has sold 2 millions pirate material with the 700 000 originals.