Desire Avenue

Two interesting pages from the US music trade mag, Billboard (May 1994), with references to how Stina's music became popular in Japan and various international sales figures.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TAgE ... utput=html


http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TAgE ... utput=html

Can anyone with the technical know how present these pages in a larger more readable format? Thanks.

Good find,Rob.Funnily enough I was searching Google books for Stina references only yesterday...
Interesting bit about the payoff of Stina accepting less moolah to gain some privacy.
I tried to capture and rejig those texts a bit.You can't save them as image files,alas,so I did a (blurry) screenshot capture and tried to put them through some OCR software,but alas it came out as gobbledegook, so I think the only way is for someone to type it all out...

Don't look at me,i'm still on ten words a minute.......so long as they're fairly short words that is.

I thought the sales figures for Memories Of A Color were interesting?

50,000 units worldwide between autumn 1991 & spring 1994, 23,000 (including imports) of which were in Japan alone.
Japan also sold 3,000 copies of the MOAC single. I wonder if it made the charts?

Not quite so impressive were the US sales figues though, where the parent album sold under 500 units between September 1993 & May 1994.

It would be interesting to know what the figures are now nearly 16 years on?

.....or 20 years on for that matter.