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Fathers’ Day results in record sales boost
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 24 June 2009
Ah, good old Fathers’ Day. Not only does this made up celebration of dads help keep the greetings card industry in business, it’s also proving to be pretty useful to the record industry too. More so than Mothers’ Day, because the pesky flowers industry has less of a look in on this one, whereas on the day of mums they’re always there stealing our money with their silly daffodils and tulips and whatnot.
Anyway, according to record label trade body the BPI and those Official Charts Company people, albums sales last week in the run up to Father’s Day were up 21.9%, with compilation sales up 43.5% thanks to inspired titles like ‘Dad Rocks’ and ‘Dad’s Jukebox’ and ‘Really Couldn’t Be Bothered Dad, So Here, Have This Shit CD’. Best Of CDs from Dad’s favourite artists like Bruce Springsteen, George Harrison, Mike Oldfield and Meat Loaf (apparently) were also up.
Commenting on the Dads Day record sales boost, BPI boss Geoff Taylor told reporters: “This Father’s Day boost to sales illustrates that the CD remains a great ‘digital music product’ for which there is still strong demand, and which makes a perfectly priced gift for special occasions”.
(He means ‘digital music product’ in the sense of a music product that uses digital technology, of course, which a CD does. As opposed, I suppose, to the more common modern use of the ‘digital’ word to mean music provided online for download or stream. Because if you use that definition the quote sort of doesn’t make sense).
