There's just no stopping the success of the
'
Disney
DVD Set| Disney dvd' albums! The show's latest set, '
Disney
dvd collection,' edged out 'The Twilight
Saga: Eclipse' soundtrack by 8,000 copies on the Billboard Top 200 album chart.
Gleeks: 1 Twi-hards: 0. Oh yeah, they also beat out Christina Aguilera and a
Disney
movies dvd tween whose name rhymes with
Dweeber.
It's hard to believe it has been less than
a year since we
Disney
box set first introduced to the wonder that
is 'Glee,' and there is little doubt in my mind that album sales from the
show's soundtracks will continue to steamroll their way over more well-known,
but growing stale, artists and franchises.
Since the first '
Disney
dvd' album, 'Glee The Music: Volume 1,' and
through the release of two more soundtracks and two EPs, more than 7.4 million
'Glee' songs have been downloaded in digital format, according to
Disney
collection.
And in a world where actual album sales
have been
Disney
cartoons dvd, the five albums have sold a
combined 1.8 million copies.
To put that in perspective, Lady
Antebellum's '
Disney
animation dvd' has been the top-selling album
so far this year with sales of 2.3 million. Only about four artists in any
calendar year will sell more than a million
Disney
on dvd.
"The complete album package is
irresistible to 'Glee' fans because it is nothing but
Disney
dvd box set," explains Keith Caulfield,
Billboard senior chart manager and analyst. "You see the songs performed
and you know you will like the album as opposed to buying a new
Family
Guy DVD|Family Guy where the consumer is taking a chance with their dollar on
something they might not entirely enjoy."
The 'Eclipse' soundtrack debuted at number
two on the Billboard chart, selling 144,000 copies. But Caulfield warns that '
family
guy dvd series' had the advantage this week
since 'Eclipse' has yet to be released in theaters.
"Once the film comes out, it will
certainly help to
family
guy dvd box set album sales. People will hear
the songs in the film and will want to experience them on the
family
guy dvd complete," Caulfield explains.
But experts say that even after the film's
family
guy box set, 'Eclipse' is unlikely to beat
out the feel good 'Journey to Regionals.'
Now, it may seem like these '
family
guy dvd set' albums are a cash cow, and
obviously they are, but it costs more to produce a 'Glee' album than you may
think.
While on the surface it may look like a lot
of
family
guy on dvd thrown together, it actually costs
a lot of money to get access to those songs. There are publisher's fees and
royalties (god bless the artists whose songs land on those albums, ka-ching!).
Even though these aren't
family
guy new release songs, they still require the
expertise of a competent producer. Additionally, they have to pay all of the
performers.
Still, it is cheaper than producing an
album of
looney
tunes dvd material with a well-known star any
day of the week.
So cheers to those fine folks at '
Warner
Bros Cartoons DVD| Warner
Bros' for figuring out how to beat
the slow death of the recording industry at its own
Warner
Bros DVD!