Farawayhills
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This is good news for those who hope Carrie's new album will help her become more established outside the radio-dominated Music Row marketing machine: Amazon UK are listing "Cry Pretty" in both Jazz and Country. The pre-orders have put her number one in both (though she's since slipt to 2 in Country, behind a bargain multi-artist compilation album - on which she also appears, with her classic BHC)
Number 1 in Jazz (with a pre-order only) means that she's currently ahead of both a five disc retrospect of Aretha, and Billy Gibbons' new release, "Big Bad Blues" - which is not bad going by any standard!
(I can't say how Amazon assign albums to categories - e.g, do they have prompting from Virgin EMI? - but It makes sense in marketing terms, since the new album sounds more Alternative than anything else she's done, and labels like Country or Pop would put some potential buyers off over here.
Number 1 in Jazz (with a pre-order only) means that she's currently ahead of both a five disc retrospect of Aretha, and Billy Gibbons' new release, "Big Bad Blues" - which is not bad going by any standard!
(I can't say how Amazon assign albums to categories - e.g, do they have prompting from Virgin EMI? - but It makes sense in marketing terms, since the new album sounds more Alternative than anything else she's done, and labels like Country or Pop would put some potential buyers off over here.
