What the Polk! New York professor is US classical top-seller
mainNielsen Soundscan doesn’t lie, but it can often surprise. The data centre has just tols us that the top-selling classical record in the US over the past seven days is played by a teacher at the Manhattan School of Music.
The album, on the Steinway label, consists of music by a peripheral French composer. It has been promoted on WQXR and on Archiv Music.
The Flatterer sold 278 copies, beating Joyce DiDonato into second place.
Go, Jo!
Meanwhile, country starlet Taylor Swift’s “Red” piled up 3.1 million album sales in only 10 weeks in 2012.
There us no accounting for tastes.
I wouldn’t mind getting that album. I love the music of Chaminade.