Comments on: Good Morning, Gokey Fans! 12/30 Discussion

By: FanOfGoodSingers

FanOfGoodSingers — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:15:33 +0000

Hi everyone.

Pjgvet

You bring up good points about single sales and album sales, they are both very important. And I think that a lot of Danny’s fans aren’t online, and might be older too.

By: pjgvet

pjgvet — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:34:35 +0000

I know, Shirl, I was just teasing you, since you were brave enough to admit not buying it

That is one of the things we’ve discussed, that Danny fans are either older or are not on the internet and that is why his sales could be better. And like Lizzy said, Danny fans can be complacent (one reason he was voted off top 3 week); Adam has many fans who buy the single many, many times just to support him.

Album sales are more important than single sales, and I hope Danny fans come through for him.

But single sales help drive album sales, so hopefully Danny will go up on the charts from single purchasers once he gets more radio play.

By: jannikas

jannikas — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:32:02 +0000

Shirl, I bought some great Bose headphones because my laptop has pitiful speakers, too. Downloaded music sounds great if you have good headphones…..(am I trying to sell some Gokey singles? Yes I am. Shameless, I know.) Jan

By: Shirl

Shirl — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:19:43 +0000

Pam, I didn’t download MBD from itunes because there is nothing to download it TO. Certainly not my laptop with it’s cheezy little speaker. And I don’t have an iphone or any kind of MP3 player. I’m just not into or used to digital downloads. I want hard copies of all my music such as CD format. Unfortunately there are no CD singles anymore, which is such a pity.

By: Ellen B.

Ellen B. — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:14:06 +0000

Jannikas, also thanks for the clarification! I probably need to pay more attention to my own use, just on general principle.

By: Ellen B.

Ellen B. — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:12:04 +0000

Okay, Pam, that’s kinda what I thought “burning up” meant. I think I have unlimited usage, although I also think that if I was on the Internet 24/7, my ISP would not be happy and would probably be contacting me.

By: jannikas

jannikas — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:09:37 +0000

Ellen, I don’t have unlimited internet use. Every video I download (including annoying, unwanted ads) uses a certain amount of MB. I only get 5 GB of internet use per month. With the radio tour and AI tour, there was so much video to watch I got very close to having to pay surcharges on my monthly bill. I have had to leave my computer off sometimes to “catch” back up to a normal usage for the time of the month. Its hard to do on a danny addiction—I have used the public library’s internet when I can’t fight it and want to stay on budget, LOL. jan

By: pjgvet

pjgvet — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:09:00 +0000

Congrats Jan, isn’t it great that we have all these helpers that help us techno challenged out? Erika is the queen! And find all the Danny info for us? We are so lucky.

Ellen, yes, its Mozilla Foxfire. Burning up internet I think is when you only have so many minutes of Internet time on your plan. Carole always mentions that too.

By: jannikas

jannikas — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:03:23 +0000

Ellen, Erika and Pam, I’m back and I just got back from loading Mozilla’s firefox! It was very quick and EVERTHING that I love about this site is back! (Well except John (PuertoRockin) and Danny lurking, perhaps….)

Somehow I think I’m showing my age by getting it confused with foxfire…..

jan

By: Ellen B.

Ellen B. — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:59:28 +0000

If you Google, I think it’s Mozilla Firefox, NOT Foxfire? A techie coworker always corrects me about that!

By: Ellen B.

Ellen B. — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:56:40 +0000

What does “burning up” Internet limit mean? Both Erika and Jannikas made some mention of this.

By: pjgvet

pjgvet — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:38:20 +0000

Hi Jan!
Lol, no my ears were too cold to burn! Yes, its true, we were much “spicier” as Latrece would call it back then. GG can attest to that; we had to explain some of our naughty expressions to him.
I think if you just google Mozilla Foxfire it will get you to their site and it should have a place to click on “Free download”. If I recall, it was fast and easy. I have IE and Mozilla Foxfire on my computer, but just use the Foxfire.

By: pjgvet

pjgvet — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:34:47 +0000

Shirl! Do you mean you didn’t use my easy to download itunes instructions to fork out $1.29 for My Best Days!!!

By: pjgvet

pjgvet — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:33:42 +0000

Hi GG; haven’t seen you in a while; hope you had a nice holiday!

I def. think Adam fans helped out Allison with her sales. This is interesting;

http://tweeter.faxo.com/Best_American_Idol_Ever

A fan at another site posted it -its another tweeter contest (groan, yes, I am so burnt out on those!. Esp. since I heard about all the cheating that goes on- a bunch of Adam fans said how they unplug their computer boxes so they can continually vote!) But anyway, my point is that Allison is way up there; at #4- now how can that be when she doesn’t have a ton of twitter followers and certainly not enough fans to keep her on the charts at all. I just think she gets a lot of help from some Adam fans. Which is nice; but just keeping digital sales in perspective.

By: jannikas

jannikas — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:27:01 +0000

Hello all–good to hear that Danny sold 8000 downloads–gosh with only 20 fans (per the haters on other sites) that means each of us bought 400 copies (I’m a slacker I only bought 4…..but I preordered the album, too.)

Great comments to Mighty, Helio. This site makes me smile. So, for the uneducated: me. How do I get foxfire???? I miss all the cool stuff Erika puts on this site.

Since it was kinda of a slow news day when I lurked at 4PM, i went out to the May archives–man, was it a busy time on Iheart! I don’t think I started lurking until June and didn’t post until late August (in preparation for the Madison AI live show). I’m going to burn up some of my 5g of internet by doing some cruising through the archives.

Erika, like you, I burn up my internet limit by the &&^%ads when ever I refresh my page–but I understand its the price of a cool site like this.

Welcome back, Pam. Were your ears burning last night? Maryann & I were obsessing over hot danny photos and I used a few of you as my barometer of “naughty” from “the days” of the AI tour. By comparison we were very, very tame.

Happy eve of New Years eve, all! Jan