:: mike errico diary ::

:: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 ::

Excerpted from an email, but did my heart good, as a closet Seger fan...

Top Catalog chart sales for the week

#5. Bob Seger "Greatest Hits"
Sales this week: 11,473
Cume: 7,985,324

This number would put Seger at number 94 on the MAIN chart. Which would make him bigger than...

Madonna, whose stiff "Confessions Tour" album only moved 10,882.

And Diddy, whose "Press Play" only sold 10,797.

Bigger than the Pussycat Dolls, who only sold 10,648.

Bigger than the Decemberists, who only sold 6,029.

As for Madonna, you'd have to slide all the way down to number 136 on the catalog chart to find her "Immaculate Collection", which moved 2,529 copies this week, for a cume of 5,519,776. But it's she that gets all the press. Isn't Bob Seger that has-been from burned-out Detroit?

... go get 'em Bob. I loved the show, bought the baseball jersey, yelled through "Hollywood Nights," and felt like a dork. At least I have company.
:: mike 12:57 PM [+] ::