Any tune will do
21 April, 2007 at 10:49 pm 2 comments
I’m loving Any Dream Will Do. Its the campest, cheesiest thing on TV and coupled with the excellent Dr Who, makes for a fab end to a busy week. Yes, I know a bright young thing like me should be out painting the town red on a Saturday night, but sometimes a girl needs to put her feet up and chill out.
Anyway, my point is that I keep finding myself scuttling off to itunes to track down songs 
(not I should stress actually from Joseph-and-his-amazing-technicolour-whatnot) that have been featured. So I thought it would be interesting to have a look at the charts on itunes and see if the program is having a broader effect. Wouldn’t you know it, the Joseph soundtrack is currently at number 25 in the album chart, followed by Grease at number 29 (Grease is the Word being ITV’s inferior answer to Any Dream Will Do). My question: do the BBC or ITV get a kickback on album sales?
PS Vote Lee.
Update: Sunday 22nd April – I found a story in today’s Sunday Times that the new BBC Trust is being asked to investigate if the corporation is giving undue promotion to Andrew Lloyd Webber and his productions. Remember, you read it here first. :-)
Entry filed under: Life, Marketing, trends. Tags: Any Dream Will Do, BBC, charts, itunes.
1. almostalwaysthinking | 1 May, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Just realised that I’ve seen Daniel Boys from the program somewhere before – playing the lead role in Rent when I went to see it a few years ago (he was the understudy for the lead I think). I’m not sure how playing the lead in a west end show qualifies him to enter a unknown-and-desperate-to-play-the-lead-in-a-west-end-show competition, but there you go…
2. You’ve got to download a song or two « (almost) always thinking | 19 May, 2008 at 9:04 am
[...] back through my blog archives, it appears that I noticed the same phenomenon last year. In fact the actual soundtrack to Oliver! is currently sitting happily in the itunes album chart [...]