Last week, no classical music was sold in the USA

Last week, no classical music was sold in the USA

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norman lebrecht

July 02, 2014

The weekly Nielsen numbers are in and they are even worse than usual.

The top-selling album, with 1,789 sales, is Casey Cresczendo of The Dear (sic) Hunter with a release called Amour and Attrition. It is described as a symphony – and may even be one (we have not yet received a copy) – but its USP is rock musician doing his thing. It’s not classical.

The next two items, selling 253 copies and 173 respectively, are singing nuns.

Below that, peanuts.

A statistician would say that last week, measured by the usual minimal criteria, no classical music was sold in the United States of America.

casey

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