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Re: tori bad?!?

From: armajiro@ccsi.com (Mike Cheselka)
Date: 15 May 1997 04:15:26 GMT
Subject: Re: tori bad?!?
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References: <A18F78B6C39@roydmoor.shef.ac.uk> <Pine.SOL.3.95.970513105816.20694A-100000@cd>

In article <Pine.SOL.3.95.970513105816.20694A-100000@cd>,
Stuart M. Castergine <scasterg@dispatch.com> wrote:
>Why would they bother to market someone as a clone of someone who is, in
>the American market, a rather minor, obscure cult artist? It would be
>like someone being marketed as a clone of Jane Siberry.

To sell as many albums per capita to Americans as Kate sells in the
UK.  It worked.  At the local Tower, Tori sold 400 copies of her
newest album.