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Post by George Tropicana on Feb 6, 2006 23:33:34 GMT -5
Skye Sweetnam's follow-up to her debut album "Noise From The Basement" is due June 20 August October 3 April 3, 2007[/b]! A SECOND album! You can currently hear some new songs by Skye on "The Barbie Diaries" DVD. She looks stunning. barbie.everythinggirl.com/activities/friends/diaries/skye/Check out this link and hear "This Is Me," a great song that's better than most of the crap on her debut album. Will Skye release a more confident and assured sophomore album? We'll see. With this and Fefe Dobson, I'm excited since a 2nd album is totally unexpected from either. I didn't think record companies would give them another chance.
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Post by reidster on Feb 7, 2006 17:04:45 GMT -5
I love her. I don't think her debut album was crap with songs such as the stunning Fallen Through, and songs like "It Sucks". I thought it was actually good, but I'm excited for this new one. Should be interesting if she actually gets a bigger hit than Tangled Up In Me, which I think she could. Hopefully this comes out in summer, and doesn't get pushed back like the last one.
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Post by George Tropicana on Feb 7, 2006 18:03:28 GMT -5
I agree that "Fallen Through" was a stand-out and should've been the single before "Number One." The live version of "Smokes and Mirrors" was good too.
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Post by George Tropicana on Feb 19, 2006 5:48:14 GMT -5
It's been delayed again to August 15. That means it'll probably never be released.
In other news, she is nominated for a Juno 2006 award: NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR: Daniel Powter; Divine Brown; Jonas; Martha Wainwright; Skye Sweetnam.
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Post by sephyrpatriq on Feb 19, 2006 13:04:59 GMT -5
I didn't get to buy her first album but if i like the single then i'll buy it
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Post by Diablo Cody™ on Feb 19, 2006 16:34:50 GMT -5
Her first album was great.
I loved "Fallen Through', "Sharada", "Number One", and the non-album version of "Smoke and Mirrors".
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Post by George Tropicana on Mar 21, 2006 16:29:36 GMT -5
"The Barbie Diaries" is coming to DVD on May 9 featuring new Skye music and a video! Don't forget to catch Skye on the Juno Awards on April 2, Canadians! :)
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Post by JCMF3 on Mar 23, 2006 12:38:49 GMT -5
and songs like "It Sucks" That pretty much sums up how I felt about her debut stuff.
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Post by George Tropicana on Apr 2, 2006 2:06:27 GMT -5
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Apr 1, 2006 8:51 PM Subject: WATCH ME ON THE JUNOS! Body: Hello my Hellbabies! If you're Canadian- you'd better be watching the JUNO's tomorrow (or today now) SUNDAY APRIL 2nd LIVE on CTV!!! or else... I will hunt you down bounty hunter style and lock you in my dungeon of dead teddy bears! Muah ha ha ha! I'm presenting at the beginning of the show... so don't miss it!
For all you non-Canadians... the Junos will be broadcasted on MTV2 in the states, MTV and VH1 networks around the world for the first time... THIS YEAR! So keep an eye out for it or else... I will take your eye out with a dull spoon...
P.S. I LOVE YOU SKYE SOLDIERS!!!! Peace & love, Skye oxox
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Post by reidster on Apr 3, 2006 16:10:18 GMT -5
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Post by George Tropicana on Apr 3, 2006 19:45:55 GMT -5
I love her style!
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Post by George Tropicana on Apr 25, 2006 23:13:21 GMT -5
Any Skye fan ought to read this article. Really insightful about her 2nd album and "Noise From The Basement"'s sales. This article definitely got me interested in hearing her 2nd album since she says it's gonna be different. Plus, Capitol isn't giving up on Skye and hooking her up with A-list songwriters! How awesome is that! :) Out of the recent teen rock girls (Skye, Brie Larson, Fefe Dobson, Hope Partlow, Angel Faith, Sara Paxton, Kristy Frank, Krystal Meyers, etc), Skye's rebel/anti-conformist personality and image is the one I remember trying to be back in my late teen years. Brie and Fefe are quirky and cool, but they're no Skye. Skye is so unique and rawkin'! No wonder she has such a loyal fanbase. Props to Capitol for not giving up. -- April 25, 2006 Lowdown: Sweetnam works with Rancid leader By KAREN BLISS -- For JAM! Music jam.canoe.ca/Music/2006/04/25/1549942.htmlSkye Sweetnam says she was a "writing machine" for her new album, tentatively due this August on Capitol Records. Collaborating with everyone from Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong to production teams The Matrix and Soulshock & Karlin, the pop/rock singer-songwriter from Bolton, ON amassed some 70 new songs from which to choose."I wrote with everybody you could possibly imagine," says the garrulous teenager, who turns 18 on May 5. "I started off doing the whole Canadian thing. I wrote with my band. I wrote with James Robertson who I did the last record ("Noise From The Basement") with, and then I got summoned by the Gods of L.A. to come down to the Capitol Records building and they put me with, I'm serious, any person, any hit songwriter that you could name, I've probably written with them. "So I'm thinking, 'Oh God, they're trying to turn me into another one of those hitmaker dolls and I'm not getting what I want.' "It's been a crazy last few years," she continues, "going from writing songs in my basement to touring with Britney Spears, which was totally unexpected, going around the world this little kid who had no idea what she was doing. But I've learned a lot over the last few years, being 14 when I wrote the first record and I'm 18 soon. It happens fast, like everything you do when you're my age -- last week I did something and it's not cool anymore and this week, what's cool now?" Sweetnam is about as talented a young lady as they come. The package that helped land her a U.S. deal with Capitol at age 14 not only featured songs she co-wrote, but an amazing stop-frame animation music video with Playmobile characters that she created, self-directed, synced, and edited for her song "Imaginery Heaven." That alone would have set her apart from those "hitmaker dolls" and had the world abuzz, if it had been released as the first single/video, but Sweetnam is absolutely gorgeous. Of course, the label would want to release a video with her actually in it. That's not a bad thing. It just doesn't play up her other talents besides playing guitar and piano and singing -- such as writing poetry, breakdancing, designing her own outfits, doing her own make-up (well), photography (she shot her own indie promo pics), and, of course, making a video. When her debut album, 2004's "Noise From The Basement," was released, preceded by the 2003 single "Billy S." in the Mandy Moore film, "How To Deal," and followed by "Tangled Up In Me" and "Number One," it helped lay a decent ground base. In Canada, it sold 13,000 units, according to Nielsen SoundScan Canada, but overall the album didn't become the worldwide mega-hit everyone expected.
"Especially in North America," Sweetnam agrees. "The one place it did do well was in Japan, which now I'm drawing a lot of inspiration from because they're the ones who truly got what I was trying to do."So in preparation for the follow-up album, Sweetnam made a major change, business-wise. She switched from Zack Werner and Beau Randall of Toronto's Venus Management to Stu Sobol of U.S. heavyweight The Firm (Queens of the Stone Age, Three Days Grace, Yellowcard). "They've been treating me so great," Sweetnam says. "I love multimedia -- the video, the acting part; they even have a book publishing part in their company; I'm even into comics and all that kind of stuff, so they really work well for the multimedia. I was kind of like, 'new record, new beginning.' I just wanted to start fresh. "The L.A. world can be so scary and can be so intimidating at first, for young artists especially, going in there and knowing that everybody is breathing down your neck 'hits hits hits.' Luckily, I am equipped with great management, and great A&R guy, who was secretly behind everyone's back going, 'Do more punk rock, Skye.'" The A&R guy is Julian Raymond, an executive at Capitol, who has also produced albums for Fastball, John Wesley Harding, the Cash Brothers, the Suicide Machines, and did some production on Sweetnam's major label debut. Sweetnam calls him "probably the coolest A&R guy ever." It was Raymond who hooked Sweetnam up with Armstrong, who outside of Rancid and the Transplants, has co-written with the likes of Pink, Gwen Stefani, Kelly Osbourne, and Fefe Dobson. "Julian is a huge Rancid fan and he said, 'I'm going to make this phone call to see if this can work, 'and I'm like,' Please God, Tim, invite me over to your house. We will have so much fun,'" Sweetnam gushes. "So I met Tim Armstrong from Rancid, punk band about as credible as you can get, and I'm going, "Tim, I am so overwhelmed right now with these crazy label people trying to get at me and steal my soul,' so we wrote a song that is one of the most awesome songs, I think, on the record called 'Ghosts.' It's about going to the big city and being afraid of it, but still thinking you can prevail over it all. "So I wrote this song and then I go and sell out," Sweetnam says abruptly. She's talking, of course, jokingly, about working with The Matrix, a.k.a. Scott Spock, Lauren Christy and Graham Edwards, who produced a series of hits for Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, and Avril Lavigne, among others. "I go to The Matrix and everybody's going, 'Skye, what are you doing?' I'm thinking, 'I have an anti-Matrix sign on my guitar and I'm going to The Matrix,' who obviously wrote tons of hits, wrote Avril's record, who I've heard about, her name, everyday for the last three years of my life. So I'm like, 'What am I doing? I'm committing artistic suicide right now.' "But they were actually thinking the exact same thing as I was thinking," Sweetnam continues with refreshing honesty. "They were thinking, 'We don't have a credible name in this business because all we do is take young girls and write hit songs for them,' and they just worked with Korn on their record so they were like, 'We're trying to do something different.' So I'm like, 'Oh my God, finally somebody who understands.' "So I brought my art books and I'm like, 'Can you turn this picture of a wolf eating a girl into a guitar riff?' and they're like, 'Okay, let's try it.' "So a lot of it is high concept; a lot of it rocks, like Nine Inch Nails meets Britney Spears. I can dance to it. I'm very very proud of this record." Sweetnam doesn't have a title for the album yet, but true to her chatty nature says the whole theme she's come up with and will probably shorten is "Sound Soldier," "Music Is My Boyfriend," "I'm In My Pink Bulldozer," and "Gonna Knock You Over."
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Post by reidster on Apr 26, 2006 15:25:05 GMT -5
I was just going to post that. I'm really excited now.
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Post by JCMF3 on Apr 27, 2006 11:24:08 GMT -5
LMAO at the description of the music as NIN meets Britney.
That's OK, though, Walmart needs some filler space for its music aisles. This album will fit that perfectly.
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Post by George Tropicana on May 16, 2006 0:37:15 GMT -5
She turned 18 last week.
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Post by George Tropicana on May 30, 2006 17:17:55 GMT -5
Some info about her 2nd album:
The short epic history of your new favorite little monster with the candy-coated smile- SKYE SWEETNAM Once upon a time there was a little wild child born on an orange moon in 1988. She came out screaming and peeing on the doctor letting the world know she had arrived. With a big curl of hair on her head and pretty little eyes as blue as the Scottish Isle, she was appropriately named SKYE. This little girl grew up to a bigger little girl- thats me. Coming from the small Canadian town Bolton, I had been drinking some of the infamous Canadian well water that turns you into a singer/songwriter. I played hooky to write and record Noise from the Basement, my first record in my friends parents house. I was signed at fourteen and I immediately started touring everywhere from summer camps, to twenty-one plus clubs (when I was sooooo underage), to arenas with Britney Spears when I was sixteen. I was trying to pay my dues as they say I guess performing two minute versions of Cats and Les Miserables for years doesnt count. So the time came around for album number two, and it was my chance to take advantage of the big budget and show everyone Ive learned a thing or two. I had about 30 songs under my belt when I got sucked into adore ya, scorn ya, California. I was so worried it would suck me in and turn me into you know a fake bitchy poser loser diva. I did my rounds trying to force my share of creative relationships. Nothing seemed to capture my vision for the new record until I wrote a song with one of the coolest guys about the very thing I was having trouble with: Being afraid of getting sucked into the big city, yet not believing I would. That guy is Mr. Tim Armstrong. I dont believe in ghosts but Im afraid of them thats how it goes. Cmon I know you cant resist signing along! Tim and I ended up becoming great friends and we later wrote two more tracks for the record. One of which, Into Action features The Aggrolites newly signed to Tims Hellcat Records. So then I get the call from the label that the most in demand production/writing team in the industry is open to try and write together. Dun dun dun dun THE MATRIX To be honest that was exactly what I didnt wanna do especially since theyre responsible for that ever so COMPLICATED song that came up in everyone of my interviews last year! Geeze! I even had anti-Matrix written on one of my guitars. So I went ahead cautiously into the Matrix studio, prepared with books of art, lyrics and strong ideas about not sounding like anything else. I wanted comic book heroine meets heavy Hit me baby one more time. I guess working with KORN kinda rubbed off on them, because after the first song we wrote Music Is My Boyfriend, I was already chanting over heavy guitars, signing contagious melodies and writing the captain of all hooks! Yargh! I give the MATRIX all the props in the world for being so amazing. They really are talented! You can head bang to it and dance and mosh and sing along! My boyfriend is the bang, the boom, the beat! and after that song we pinpointed SKYE SOUND. So with my vintage SPICE GIRL rings from a cereal box and my huge-mongous boots I was ready for world domination. We ended up writing the rest of the record together. See kids the moral is dont dis anything til you try it! Along my travels in LA, I ran into an ultra cool MC/Rapper Aksent. After hearing her music, I knew I had to get her in on one of the tracks. BOYHUNTER, a girl power anthem about hunting down boys as if they were animals seemed to be a perfect fit! After the Matrix heard her they knew as I did, the two of us playing off each other over a hot beat was too hard to resist. I liked the idea of being a hybrid of all things cool. I took influence from being on the Britney tour, from my favorite place in the world JAPAN, from my DIY rebel roots in the basement, and from my grandfathers bulldozers in the real rock business. Ive been fed up with all young girls out today preaching that theyre REAL whats happened to the magic? And what the hell has happened to the sound? So this record is tilted SOUND SOLDIER! I am music warrior, defending noise in the fight against silence. Im a tutu wearing new breed of doll with killer lipstick in my pocket to use on the boys I hunt. I stand for auditory extremes and a wicked fashion sense! I pledge to maintain sonic integrity and I will always promise to play my music loud! So you may wonder what youre listening toone part punk funk, one part little girl wanna-be, like a razor in a lollipop, too-sugary-to handle on the outside but it bites back when you least expect! Who cares what it is as long as you like it. You can hate me after the songs over! Nanananana I got a MICROPHONE!
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Post by sephyrpatriq on May 30, 2006 17:50:08 GMT -5
wow she's really eccentric, I like that! I can't wait to see what she comes up with
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Post by reidster on May 30, 2006 21:57:10 GMT -5
Awesome. I'm very excited. We should probably see a first single soon.
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Post by George Tropicana on Jun 1, 2006 18:23:57 GMT -5
I'm really happy Capitol believed in Skye and put more money into album 2. Most labels would've dropped her based on the performance of her debut. However, since she recorded the debut in a basement with one producer, it probably didn't cost much!
I am excited for this since she sounds so excited!
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Post by Diablo Cody™ on Jun 2, 2006 2:51:05 GMT -5
It only sold 13,000 copies in Canada? That's so fucking low.
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Post by reidster on Jun 13, 2006 15:18:45 GMT -5
For Canada, without having a major single, that's pretty good. Her major hit was Billy S., which was released like 2 years before the album. I could see this album doing better but it might be harder. There are currently alot of young Canadian artists releasing stuff soon, or already have (Fefe Dobson, Nelly Furtado, Kalan Porter, Lillix, Keshia Chante...shall I continue) for her to break out in Canada.
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Post by George Tropicana on Jun 18, 2006 17:13:22 GMT -5
Don't hold your breath, but the new release date is supposedly October 3.
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Post by rydeordie on Jun 18, 2006 18:38:31 GMT -5
It only sold 13,000 copies in Canada? That's so f**king low. Lol no I swear Canadian sales are so low, that's like 24x Platinum!
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Post by winner2000 on Jun 18, 2006 20:29:11 GMT -5
It only sold 13,000 copies in Canada? That's so f**king low. Lol no I swear Canadian sales are so low, that's like 24x Platinum! I know, eh? Sometimes I seriously wonder how these artists survive when Canada's their only market. Like Pilate, for example. Their new album is BOMBING...like I don't even think they sold 5,000 copies in total so far, and it's practically out of the Top 200. HOw the heck do labels make money off these types of artists? And that's just an example...there's Canadian artists that do FAR worse... ???
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Post by reidster on Jun 23, 2006 9:36:15 GMT -5
Article posted in a local Bolton paper. (Credit to BoltonGirl from the boards for typing this out.)
BOLTONITE SKYE SWEETNAM HITS THE BIG TIME
I tried for weeks to make contact with Skye Sweetnam. I talked to her grandfather, her father, but Skye was my illusive goal. One week she was in Halifax for the Juno Awards, the next in Thailand for the Asian MTV Awards. When I finally got her mother on the phone from Los Angeles, she told me Skye couldn't make it for our scheduled phone interview because her recording session had gone longer than expected -- foiled again!
Two nights later, the phone rang. "Hi, this is Skye Sweetnam." Her voice has all the enthusiasm and energy that one would expect from listening to her songs. Her speaking voice is not unlike her singing voice -- powerful, positive, and, yes, sweet! I have a page of questions I want to ask her but I only get one of them out. By the end of our hour-long conversation, she has answered all of them anyway.
It all started in Cucci's Hair Salon in downtown Bolton. Skye was asked to sing spontaneously in front of the customers gathered there, and never one to shrink from the limelight, she launched in. As fate would have it, a woman sitting in one of chairs sat up and took notice. Her brother, Blair Holder, worked for one of the biggest entertainment law firms in Canada, Sanderson-Taylor. "My brother's coming over to the house tonight for my birthday party. Do you have a demo CD?" Skye passed it on to the mystery woman who played it for Holder. Within a few days Skye was contacted and had her first manager, Zack Warner, who introduced her to singer song-writer James Robertson. This was Skye's most important and lasting professional relationship. "James remains one of my closest friends in the industry to this day."
"I was thirteen years old and James was 21. Working with him made me realize that I wanted to be a singer song-writer. I decided I was going to write about the things I knew about -- parents, boys, school, and being a little rebel. During this time we'd work all night in his basement living on chips and pop."
"It was during this time that I wrote and recorded Imaginary Superstar about me singing with my hairbrush -- which I really used to do! I made a mini stop- animation video and sent it to all the major record labels. To our amazement we got a call from Capitol Records in Hollywood! They wanted us to come down, and they treated us like royalty. It was amazing! They said 'what do we have to do to get you to sign with us?' And I said. 'Well, I really like chocolate chip cookies.' The next day we came back to our hotel room and there were a gazillion chocolate chip cookies!"
At the tender age of fourteen, when most kids are adjusting to life in Grade 9, Skye signed her first record deal with Capitol Records, left Mayfield Secondary School and began full time work on Noise From the Basement, the record that would make her famous. "All the demo tapes we had made back in James' basement were good enough for the record. We only had to record two more. It was funny though because those demos were so rough. If you listen carefully, you can actually hear James' mom vacuuming in the background.
"The year before the CD came out, I went on tour with Shawn Desman around the Maritimes. We played a lot of clubs and because I was so young, I had to stay backstage between sets. Men used to offer to buy me drinks, and my father had to step in once or twice. That year we did a tour of summer camps with Fefe Dobson. That was one of the best tours I ever did. The kids were so appreciative.
"When my song Billy S. was used in the soundtrack for How To Deal, starring Mandy Moore, a lot of opportunities opened up. I was sixteen and I went on tour with Britney Spears. That was incredible. Playing in front of 20,000 people every night! We travelled through 17 countries in Europe and did over 50 shows!
"My first record was released on September 21, 2004. We toured Japan, Spain, France, Thailand and Hong Kong. It was great. Last summer I did my first headlining tour in Japan, and I was amazed how the audiences, even though they didn't know how to speak English, could sing every word to my songs!"
Skye talks reflectively about her experiences touring with Ryan Cabrera. "I was touring with Ryan around the time of his break up with Ashlee Simpson. There's this celebrity culture that everybody sees, but these are real people and it hits close to home when you're right there with them."
Skye does not miss having never been to high school. "Travel has been more of an education than school could ever be. And then there's the whole business thing. I'm responsible for all aspects of the business. There's a lot of responsibility. I've learned more than I ever could have at school."
Skye has thousands of fans all over the world. Her biggest fan base is in Japan where she says she would like to live one day. Skye answers all her fan mail and is especially fond of those she calls her "boardies." These are the fans who frequent her web page. On her "My Space" blog she has over 12,000 contacts. "They know things before I do -- 'Skye has been confirmed for the Juno Awards' -- they knew that before I did!"
Skye is hoping to release her second record later this year. "I've been working with the production and writing team, The Matrix. They've worked with stars like Hilary Duff, Britney Spears and Korn. I was hesitant to work with them, because they had a bit of a reputation for making 'pretty young girls' famous. I didn't want to be put with anyone who was trying to pre-package me. I know all about the men in the suits who make the hits and I didn't want that. As it turned out, the guys from Matrix didn't want that either. We hit it off great. I'd bring them a drawing of a wolf eating a little girl and say, 'can you make this into a song.' And they'd say, 'Yeah, great!' It's been fantastic working with them.
"One side of my brain is totally business minded and the other part is the rebellious part of me. Everybody wants the safe hit. That's not what I'm about. Young girls, we get a bad rap for not knowing what we're doing. It's not that way with me."
When I ask Skye if she has any advice for young people, she becomes even more passionate. "I think young people are smarter than everyone makes them out to be. I always tell them to keep their head high and always have confidence. I'm my own best friend. High school revolves around what everybody thinks. There's so much more out there! You guys just wait!"
Skye recalls the day she knew her dreams had come true. She and her friend, Ashley Hewko from Bolton, had just attended her first record's release party and Skye had just appeared on the Jay Leno show. "Driving through Los Angeles later we passed a record store and there was this huge poster of my face. I thought, 'This is it! It's finally happening!'"
From the "Pop Stars March Break Camp" at Rumball Music Studios to her second major label record in Hollywood, Bolton's Skye Sweetnam is one young lady who has made her dreams come true.
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Post by George Tropicana on Jun 23, 2006 12:45:13 GMT -5
Fantastic article! Thanks for posting it. Can't wait for her album but I have a feeling we might not even see it this year.
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 23, 2006 12:53:49 GMT -5
If she sold 13,000 in Canada, how much did she sell in America? 2,000?
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Post by Diablo Cody™ on Jun 23, 2006 21:36:32 GMT -5
If she sold 13,000 in Canada, how much did she sell in America? 2,000? LMMFAO probably. I bet after all the touring she did, her album probably didn't even sell 20,000 worldwide. And she sang in front of that many people a night. They must've hated her. Poor Skye.
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Post by reidster on Jun 23, 2006 22:48:06 GMT -5
^^ Actually, I know that she sold over 8,000 the first week of release in the states. It's probably at something like 30,00-40,000, in the states. And didn't she go platinum or gold in Japan? She did very well there, and even headlined a "tour" (or 4, or something like that, shows).
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Post by George Tropicana on Jun 24, 2006 3:37:43 GMT -5
If she sold 13,000 in Canada, how much did she sell in America? 2,000? LMMFAO probably. I bet after all the touring she did, her album probably didn't even sell 20,000 worldwide. And she sang in front of that many people a night. They must've hated her. Poor Skye. But most of those ppl went to see Britney, not Skye.
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