RE: Hatikvah's Top 10

[Dick Rosenberg <drosenberg...>]

So, nu, Simon, use the Jewish year :-)

Dick

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Klezcorner (at) aol(dot)com [SMTP:Klezcorner (at) aol(dot)com]
>Sent:  Wednesday, December 30, 1998 10:28 PM
>To:    World music from a Jewish slant.
>Subject:       Hatikvah's Top 10
>
>                                  HATIKVAH'S TOP 10 + Other Trivia
>
>I recived many requests for my  "Top 10" list again this year so here it is,
>however, I am changing the list to include  the last TWO years. The reason
>for
>this is that many Jewish recordings are released late in the year to take
>advantage of the Chanukah selling period, and their sales will straddle the
>end of one year, and the beginning of the other. This puts the recording at a
>dissadvantage since the time period "divides" those sales in half. 
>The "top 10"list consists of total sales of all recordings by the artists.
>
>Since we wholesale as well as retail, we only count those artists whose
>retail
>sales make up at least 65% of total sales. Any recording that we distribute
>but for which we do not an active retail market, is not included . 
>Feel free to comment on the list-we received quite a few last year.
>
>The Top 10 List is a list is followed by our ALL-Time Best Sellers.
>
>TOP 10 SELLERS 1997 - 1998
>       1) The Barry Sisters
>       2) The Machaya Klezmer Band
>       3) I. Perman
>       4) Barbra Streisand-("Higher Ground" CD-only 1 Jewish song on the
>recording.)
>      5) Mandy Patinkin
>       6) Andy Statman
>       7) Joel Rubin
>       8) Dave Tarras
>       9) Fortuna (Ladino)
>tie10) David Fisher  (His Yiddish Cd "Goldene Lieder" make up 95% of his
>sales).
>tie10) Martha Schlamme
>  Best Selling Chanukah Recording-"Just In Time For Chanukah" Margie & Ilene
>  Best Selling "NEW artist - 1) Alicia Svigals  2) Kroke   3) Di Naye Kapelye
>  Best Selling Category- 1) Yiddish  2) Klezmer 3) Ladino 4) Cantorial 5)
>Israeli
>
>ALL TIME BEST SELLERS BY CATEGORY
>   YIDDISH
>The Barry Sisters-20,000+ stopped counting after 22,000
>The Yiddish Dream-10,000+    Stopped counting
>David Fisher-8,500+ Stopped counting
>  KLEZMER
>Itzhak Perman-15,000+ Stopped counting
> LADINO
> Fortuna-750+ (3 recordings) - Stopped Counting
> Esther Lamandier-450+(1 recording "Romances")
> Francoise Atlan-300+(3 recordings)
> Rosa Zaragoza- Hottest "new" artist. We Only 'Discovered" her 15 months ago.
>  CANTORIAL
>Yossele Rosenblatt-He's The King, what's the use of counting!
>Moishe Kousevitsky
>ALL TIME FASTEST SELLING VIDEOS
>Rugrats-Passover-1,000 units in 2 weeks
>Hanukah Homeboy- 543 units in 2 weeks
>
>Enjoy The Music-Thank You All, and A Special Thank You To Ari Davidow!
>Happy "Other" New Year
>Simon
>Hatikvah Music
>(The Non-Web Site Store)
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