Showing posts with label australias got talent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label australias got talent. Show all posts
Friday, September 20, 2013
An Invite :
Australia's Got Talent winner Jack Vidgen & LA based Australian comedienne Jackie Loeb will be performing at a benefit for Net Ball America at the Australian Consul General's residence in Los Angeles on the 29th of this month- see the invite below.
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Monday, December 26, 2011
A Christmas Tale
Alex Day |
In the course of his investigations for the record company, he was introduced in great secrecy to the 'hit-picker' employed by the company to assess whether the Aussie band's release would be a hit. The hit picker, an ageing musician who had seen better days had assessed, after several bottles of wine and many tokes on a hash pipe that the record was doomed to failure.
COLDPLAY |
One young singer/songwriter Alex Day has just broken the mould and is currently at No 4 in the British music charts having sold 52,881 copies of his composition Forever Yours in the last week, pushing COLDPLAY into fifth place with just 50,000 sales.
Alex has no record deal. He promotes himself on YouTube.
Official Charts Company MD Martin Talbot has said that "Forever Yours is certainly one of the most successful self-released tracks we have ever seen, the Official Charts are based on sales, and sales alone, so Alex’s achievements this week are a genuine reflection of the passion of his army of fans, and of course, the power of social media."
Contrast Alex Day's success with the hullabaloo over shows like X-Factor with their millions of viewers around the world and rewards heaped upon the winners by the music giant Sony.
Local X-Factor winner Recce Mastin sold 70,000 copies of Good Night while Australia's Got Talent winner Jack Vidgen sold a similar amount. Both had the entire Sony network behind them plus a reputed million dollar budget and nightly TV adverts promoting them.
Alex Day did have help from a hit maker from way back-Jonathan King who describes here how he and Alex beavered away to beat the music industry at it's own game.
Forever Yours:
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