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Mar 26 08 11:20 AM

Greg wrote:
PEREZ REALLY BOTHERS ME. thats unfair of him to do that. one would think he woulda ripped madonna for the justin collab (you know he woulda if mariah worked with him). but its his blog, so whatever. i DONT wish him well.. (he has me in a bad mood now)

What's funny to me is that he posts all these reasons to justify that Madonna is charting lower than Mariah on the Itunes singles chart... it is hilarious! Let's take this part by part. This is what Perez posted with my comments in italics:

"An industry expert (a Madonna fan? cuz no industry "expert" would portray this situation like Perez did) explains to us the current music brawl between Mariah and Madonna, and why Madge has the advantage it seems(How does she have an advantage? furthermore, Perez proceeds to explain all the reasons as to justifying Madonna's position... if she had an advantage, why the need for so many explanations?)!

Says our insider:

"You cannot really compare Madonna's song with Mariah's because….

-If you look at the complete iTunes singles chart, Madonna is in there 3 times with the same song. All together, she would be much higher than #10. Mariah is only on there once. (So this is true... the chart is not fully indicative of the comparison... but the fact that she has three versions nowhere near implies than adding the three versions will add up to Mariah's total)

- Carey's song has been on the radio for more than a month while Madonna's only a week. It is expected that Touch My Body will have a strong first week and go down while Madonna's will gain airplay and rise on iTunes. (Doesn't this mean Madonna had a poor marketing strategy if her single was released when its airplay was just getting started?)

-Madonna's was available Tuesday while Mariah's Monday. (Poor strategy X 2, seeing as sales count from Monday to Sunday)

- Madonna's song is #1 on Amazon downloads. (Amazon is nowhere near Itunes marketshare)

- Also, look at the complete album chart on iTunes, Madonna is also there twice (#3, #22) with the same album, which counted as one, would probably take her higher than #3." (Seeing as Mariah had the biggest selling album of 2005, and that Madonna's latest album didn't even get half of Mariah's sales in the US, this is hardly indicative of album sales that will depend largely on longevity and multiple radio hits)

And there you have it!!!!! Go Mo!"


GEEEEEZ... I swear.... people talk about Media biase, but this is like an example taken out of a textbook.

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