All Angels - top classical download of 2006

[Dave]

Hello everyone,

I am reposting this in full from the AAI forum because not only is it on topic for the All Angels sub-board here but it will be of interest to members who are currently discussing digital downloads here in the Off Topic board (where any follow-up posts about digital downloads generally should be made).

From the AAI Forum:

Music Week has just published an interesting report on classical album downloads and included is a table of the top 10 classical downloads of 2006. Here it is:

Top 10 UK Classical Downloads 2006

1. All Angels - All Angels
2. King's College Choir - Essential Carols
3. Hans Zimmer - Da Vinci Code OST
4. LSO/Davis - Holst/The Planets
5. Sting - Songs From the Labyrinth
6. Hans Zimmer - Gladiator OST
7. Berliner PO/Rattle - Holst/The Planets
8. BBC CO/Wordsworth - Last Night of the Proms Collection
9. Katherine Jenkins - Serenade
10. Hans Zimmer - Pirates of the Caribbean - OST

I think this is such good news that I've decided to start a separate thread for it. There is no link as this article and chart is in the paper Music Week magazine this week, maybe I'll be able to do a scan of it later.

This confirms what I've been seeing at iTunes ever since All Angels was released, they have consistently outsold everything else 'classical' in their charts - but I don't know why! Any ideas?

I think it's remarkable that All Angels came so far in front of Katherine - and the Fron Choir who aren't even in the top 10. It is even more remarkable that some core classical albums are well up in the chart battling it out with the big name classical crossover singers!

Anyway, although digital album sales are still fairly small compared to CDs, they are becoming increasingly important and it's good to see All Angels at the forefront of the digital revolution.

The article also mentions that Universal Classics and Jazz will tomorrow be announcing the setting up of their own classical download store for their artists - which include All Angels, Hayley and Katherine.

Possibly even more exciting is the prediction (in the article) that UCJ may have to abandon the Digital Rights Management (DRM) model - copy protection - in order to break the iTunes monopoly. And that - if it were to happen - would be the best thing to happen to digital (classical?) music since it started! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Meanwhile, Three cheers for All Angels

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Cheers, Dave

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Okay, Dave. Thanks for persevering with this. To keep things simple I'm going to 'edit' my quote of your original, placing my comments in red and cutting out what isn't relevant to my reply. I hope you find this acceptable.

dave said:

Hello everyone,

I am reposting this in full from the AAI forum because not only is it on topic for the All Angels sub-board here but it will be of interest to members who are currently discussing digital downloads here in the Off Topic board (where any follow-up posts about digital downloads generally should be made).
From the AAI Forum:

Music Week has just published an interesting report on classical album downloads and included is a table of the top 10 classical downloads of 2006. Here it is:

This confirms what I've been seeing at iTunes ever since All Angels was released, they have consistently outsold everything else 'classical' in their charts - but I don't know why! Any ideas?

Yes Dave! They are fantastically good!!
I think it's remarkable that All Angels came so far in front of Katherine - and the Fron Choir who aren't even in the top 10.

Yes, that is indeed very interesting. If it doesn't exist by the time I get round to it, I'll raise a thread on 'The Fron' giving it a review. In many ways it is not surprising, their success on CD but in other ways I think it is. They're not the best of Welsh male voice choirs--or at least these arrangements aren 't the best example of their type of music, in my view.

It is even more remarkable that some core classical albums are well up in the chart battling it out with the big name classical crossover singers!

Anyway, although digital album sales are still fairly small compared to CDs, they are becoming increasingly important and it's good to see All Angels at the forefront of the digital revolution.

Absolutely Dave, but my next question is 'what happened to the initiative with Hayley?' As I recollect, she was supposedly the first crossover, ior main stream singer, to go digital? Something rings bells in that this issue was raised on HWI some months, almost a year ago in which Hayley was breaking new ground?

The article also mentions that Universal Classics and Jazz will tomorrow be announcing the setting up of their own classical download store for their artists - which include All Angels, Hayley and Katherine.

Possibly even more exciting is the prediction (in the article) that UCJ may have to abandon the Digital Rights Management (DRM) model - copy protection - in order to break the iTunes monopoly. And that - if it were to happen - would be the best thing to happen to digital (classical?) music since it started! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Meanwhile, Three cheers for All Angels

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Cheers, Dave Entirely support all that last bit!

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Peter S.

[Dave]

Hi guys,

there is some follow-up (an article scan) to my original post here at AAI but I won't post it in this thread as it's more relevant to discussions about digital music generally which have already started in the Off Topic board; I may post it there.

Peter, yes I can follow your post but I can't respond right now as quoting your red additions to your quote of my quote (I think that's it!) will make it all tooooo complicated and the Hayley bits are off topic anyway. Ouch! Now I've made my brain hurt!

Cheers, Dave

[postscript]

dave said:

Hi guys,

there is some follow-up (an article scan) to my original post here at AAI but I won't post it in this thread as it's more relevant to discussions about digital music generally which have already started in the Off Topic board; I may post it there.

Peter, yes I can follow your post but I can't respond right now as quoting your red additions to your quote of my quote (I think that's it!) will make it all tooooo complicated and the Hayley bits are off topic anyway. Ouch! Now I've made my brain hurt!

Cheers, Dave

Hi Dave.
Back to keeping it simple.

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[3.] to which i responded as follows:Could it be her photograph is:

• more immediately available--used before and they've already paid a basic royalty?
  
• simply more copies of her photographs are around?
  
• Could we email all obvious press editorials with AAI web reference where our people's superb shots of All Angels are to be found telling them they are royalty free--if the members concerned agree---to be used with the simple strap line 'courtesy of All Angels and the All Angels International web site'?
  

[/ul]The principle of course could also apply to Hayley but Hayley is already established and so it probably isn't necessary, except we could have a strap line on the relevant HWI page for Hayley?

Peter S.