From the monthly archives:

March 2009

We’ve Missed You, Kelly

ShareKelly Clarkson is back, and industry experts are projecting a #1 album on the Billboard charts thanks to high Soundscan and digital single numbers. Her fourth album, titled “All I Ever Wanted,” is expected to top out at as many as 200,000 units. There is one caveat, however:
Billboard estimates the seven merchants who report to [...]

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Chris Bauer

17 March 2009

Chris Bauer

LMSYP Event: Record Store Day! April 18th, 2009

ShareTitle: Record Store Day
Location: Record Stores Everywhere!
Link out: Click here
Description: Record Store Day features a flurry of support and activity from artists, record labels and retailers wishing to participate in the annual event in salutation of the independent music store. This year Record Store Day is set to feature a number of exciting new [...]

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Chris Bauer

16 March 2009

Chris Bauer

Trans World’s Bob Higgins to Receive NARM Award

ShareThe National Association of Recording Merchandisers will honor Bob Higgins, CEO of Trans World Entertainment. The award will be given at the association’s annual convention, held June 7 – 10 in San Diego, CA. (Please note San Diego as your favorite packaging blogger’s home town.)
“I am delighted to honor Bob with our Presidential Award, as [...]

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Chris Bauer

16 March 2009

Chris Bauer

Advertising Is Dead: Long Live Packaging

ShareThe Dieline’s Ted Mininni explains the importance of packaging in standing out to consumers.
Stand in the aisle of any major supermarket or mass retailer in America and notice in numerous product categories, many brands are indistinguishable from each other. If your brand looks like the rest of the product brands in the category, an overhaul [...]

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Chris Bauer

16 March 2009

Chris Bauer

Employees Let Go At Red Eye Distribution

ShareThere are tough times right now as Red Eye Distribution announced the layoff of four employees. The purpose of the move is to combine Red Eye’s strategic marketing department with their traditional marketing unit, hypebot reports from a letter by Red Eye general manager Steve Dixon. The combined team will be responsible for physical and [...]

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Chris Bauer

16 March 2009

Chris Bauer

Trans World’s F.Y.E. Sales Down 24%

ShareDue in part to fewer stores open, FYE’s sales dropped by 24% to $344.7 million in Q4 2008. Same store sales over that same time period dropped only 14%. The rest of the drop was likely a result of 159 fewer stores open.
Trans World and FYE are looking at other markets to make up for [...]

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Chris Bauer

16 March 2009

Chris Bauer

Universal to Distribute Disney in Australia

ShareThis one goes out to the legions of Hannah Montana, Jonas Brothers, and High School Musical fans reading Let Me See Your Package. Univeral has reached an agreement with Disney to distribute their products in Australia beginning April 1st.
UMG To Distribute Disney Down Under

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Chris Bauer

10 March 2009

Chris Bauer

Prince, Target Stores Team Up For Exclusive Deal And Weird Spelling

Prince and Target, a match made in heaven

SharePrince and Target Stores announced a deal to allow the retail chain exclusive rights to sell Prince’s new three disc set. The collection includes studio albums “LOtUSFLOW3R” and “MPLSoUND”, and features a third disc “Elixer” from Prince’s newest protege Bria Valente.
All 3 sell together for $11.98, a price point likely attractive to Target as a [...]

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Chris Bauer

6 March 2009

Chris Bauer

Taylor Swift Actually Gains Traction, 18% Sales Increase

ShareHer album, “Fearless”, has Sound Scanned 73,000 copies in the US, topping Billboard charts for the 11th straight week. According to Billboard, no album has topped the charts as long since Santana’s “Supernatural” in 1999 to 2000.
The bad news is the Jonas Brothers’ “3D Concert Experience” shows up 3rd on the list selling 50,000 copies.
Billboard [...]

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Chris Bauer

5 March 2009

Chris Bauer