Mail On Sunday threatens legal action over Prince chart ruling

does this actually mean that prince is trying to "cheat" his way to #1?

the information was chart ineligible because it contained stickers.

i mean, really, who bought the album just for the stickers*?

* - except for me

For being a bunch of cunts?

anyway...

Will they be getting it on in the back of their caravans?

Will the cream be flowing as they struggle to contain the raging trouser snakes that lurk beneath their sta-prest leisure slacks?

Does anyone care?!

there is no way a free giveaway could chart, just silly.

How many of the CDs will have found their way to Ebay by Monday morning? Hundreds I'm sure. Unless this stunt is being repeated world over, there will be lots of foreign buyers for this won't there?

I like Dire Straits.

always one!

that was a single track giveaway, which might even have helped them sell more copies of the record.

The equivalent would have been if they'd given away "Icky Thump" on CD, not a single track on vinyl.

And at any rate, the NME is merely written these days by a bunch of low-grade journalists who are patronising their target audience, which is still not on the same level as being a mouthpiece for right-wing bigotry...

about a single they paid for not being permitted in the single chart, but they didn't. that is my only point.

Really sticking it to the man ain't he?

But its ridiculous to claim that this should chart. I bet when they gave away 'Summer Driving Anthems' or whatever in last week's issue they weren't arsed about that charting - and I'm sure the Mail's circulation is more than most record sales.

CD's like 'Summer Driving Anthems' from the Sunday Express/Mail make up half of my Mum's record collection. the other half is folk records from when she was a hippy in her youth. IRONY.

Prince...and more to the point The Daily Mail. I don't care, and stop getting in the way of my life and taking up valuable head-space.

First belly-laugh of the day. Cheers, Alex!

It seems like a daft idea anyway. If Prince is going to give away 3 million copies of his album, he won't make a groat in royalties from them, so unless he has stakes in The Mail, he...oh no...surely not!

By the way, someone mentioned Dirty Mind. Is he actually going to DO any of the 'good-era' stuff on his tour, anyway? I'd have thought his religious affiliations would forbid it. His new album's crap too. Probably. I don't know, 'cuase I'm never going to buy The Mail.

so why does Prince?

we'll have the answer after this commercial break!

...were selling the Mail today. And after the comments from their head honcho last week on the whole thing. Tut tut.

Seriously though, how could it possibly chart? They're selling the newspaper and giving away the CD, not selling the CD with the newspaper attached.

if Prince is as cool as he tries to appear with this rather odd move, then he should be cool enough not to care about char placements or being included in the charts at all.

IMO this is the cheapest of cheap sell-out tacticts since Michael Jackson signed his name away to Pepsi in the 80s to see his mug on every can.

I didn't buy the Mail On Sunday and I don't care about Prince as a person much. I might download his album from a P2P - he surely won't mind? No? Oh.

Prince's last album sold just 80.000 copies. Now he wants 2.1 million copies sold to his name - sorry, these are not genuine sales - no - never.
It was a great stunt - now let's switch on our brains and think about really new ways to distribute and sell music in this century. Putting my album in the Mail On Sunday is not cool, intelligent or a rebel move against the ageing music industry - it's a bold way to finance his lavish lifestyle.

Full stop.

but what if the packaging _reduces_ the value of the item, as in the case of the Heil on Sunday?

I miss them muchly.

I think this is funny, the Daily Mail finds a way to try and shake their angry, middle-England stereotype, and realign their image and target readership by spending £250,000 on giving away this album, and something happens which means they still end up looking angry and uptight.

In an attempt to appear to be laid back sexy motherfu*kers, they end up considering their position in relation to legal action.

the album is.... gash... quite befitting that it was given away with such a <edit crap middle class rantage>