Post by Pimpster on Jul 31, 2003 9:32:52 GMT 10
Think of the irony. Australian Idol rounds up thousands of young Australians like sheep and then gets beaten in the ratings by 60 Minutes who that night ran a report on Australia's sheep exports. There is a God.
60 Minutes gave Australian Idol a ripe ol' whipping in the television ratings on Sunday night. It beat Ten's musical 'Who Wants To Owe A Million Dollars' by around 9% nationally.
60 Minutes beat Australia's Idol in the Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide markets and in Brisbane Idol actually came in third behind 60 Minutes and Deal Or No Deal.
Where is Cornelia Francis when you need her to send off the weakest link?
While we are on the subject of statistics, here are some more that might scare you.
The winner of Australia's Idol will end up with a $1,000,000 contract which means they are liable to pay that back out of the sales of their CD.
What is the likely-hood they will do that?
Let's look at US winner Kelly Clarkson's sales. In the USA, her album sold 1.3 million copies. That's excellent news. She should have recouped easily on that. However, the equivalent to 1.3m sales in Australia is about 90,000.
If you do as well as Kelly Clarkson did on a per capita basis, you will walk away only owing around $700,000.
But wait, it isn't necessarily going to be that bad. Bardot, the winners of the first season of Australia's Pop Stars sold about 150,000 units of their debut album in Australia. (Mind you, they were never committed to a $1,000,000 campaign). Working on standard figures and achieving what Bardot did with their first album, you'll only be about $500,000 in debt. That is more than the average Australia house.
To get out of debt, you'll have to sell around 300,000 units (more than 4x Platinum). Only 7 acts achieved that in Australia in 2002. They were Avril Lavigne, Eminem, Enrique Iglesias, Jamiroquai, Kylie and Shakira.
In 2002, Pop Stars winner Scot Cain only scored a gold (35,000+) selling single with 'Im Moving On' but his album sold less than 35,000.
In 2001, Scandal'us were awarded Platinum for their 'Startin' Something' album. The single Me, Myself & I sold double platinum. In both cases, well below the 300,000 threshold they would need to break even.
We are talking ballpark figures here because I have not seen the actual contract and therefore aren't privy to the actual percentages in the agreement but I think we can safely assume that the winner will have almost no negotiation power in the deal.
So who wants to be a millionaire?
www.undercover.com.au/news/2003/20030730_60minutes.html
60 Minutes gave Australian Idol a ripe ol' whipping in the television ratings on Sunday night. It beat Ten's musical 'Who Wants To Owe A Million Dollars' by around 9% nationally.
60 Minutes beat Australia's Idol in the Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide markets and in Brisbane Idol actually came in third behind 60 Minutes and Deal Or No Deal.
Where is Cornelia Francis when you need her to send off the weakest link?
While we are on the subject of statistics, here are some more that might scare you.
The winner of Australia's Idol will end up with a $1,000,000 contract which means they are liable to pay that back out of the sales of their CD.
What is the likely-hood they will do that?
Let's look at US winner Kelly Clarkson's sales. In the USA, her album sold 1.3 million copies. That's excellent news. She should have recouped easily on that. However, the equivalent to 1.3m sales in Australia is about 90,000.
If you do as well as Kelly Clarkson did on a per capita basis, you will walk away only owing around $700,000.
But wait, it isn't necessarily going to be that bad. Bardot, the winners of the first season of Australia's Pop Stars sold about 150,000 units of their debut album in Australia. (Mind you, they were never committed to a $1,000,000 campaign). Working on standard figures and achieving what Bardot did with their first album, you'll only be about $500,000 in debt. That is more than the average Australia house.
To get out of debt, you'll have to sell around 300,000 units (more than 4x Platinum). Only 7 acts achieved that in Australia in 2002. They were Avril Lavigne, Eminem, Enrique Iglesias, Jamiroquai, Kylie and Shakira.
In 2002, Pop Stars winner Scot Cain only scored a gold (35,000+) selling single with 'Im Moving On' but his album sold less than 35,000.
In 2001, Scandal'us were awarded Platinum for their 'Startin' Something' album. The single Me, Myself & I sold double platinum. In both cases, well below the 300,000 threshold they would need to break even.
We are talking ballpark figures here because I have not seen the actual contract and therefore aren't privy to the actual percentages in the agreement but I think we can safely assume that the winner will have almost no negotiation power in the deal.
So who wants to be a millionaire?
www.undercover.com.au/news/2003/20030730_60minutes.html