First-day sales online and in-store of singer Adele’s new album “25” surpassed first-day sales of any other albums in Barnes & Noble BKS +1.16%’s history, the bookseller said Monday. The album, which lauched Nov. 20 on CD and vinyl, wasn’t made available on streaming services Spotify or Apple Music. That likely aided its success in traditional channels like B&N.
Ideed, nearly all of B&N’s previous top-selling albums debuted before Spotify’s U.S. launch in 2011. Those include Bruce Springsteen’s “The Rising” (2002), Coldplay’s “X&Y” (2005), “Everyday” by Dave Matthews Band (2001), Josh Groban’s “Closer” (2003), “Feels Like Home” by Norah Jones (2004) and Susan Boyle’s “I Dreamed a Dream” (2009).
That is a reminder that the loss of book sales to Amazon.com AMZN +1.55% isn’t the only thing to have hurt sales at B&N in recent years.
It also suggests popular artists like Adele might be better off shunning streaming services in favor of selling albums the old fashioned way. That could mean better economics for those artists and some unexpected upside for brick-and-mortar retailers.
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/...ashioned-gift/
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WSJ Is funny with their "popular artists like Adele should..."
There ARE no other artists like Adele
