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Breaking Badfinger: Who's Getting the Baby Blue Money?


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#1 Mark Carver

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Posted 07 October 2013 - 12:08 PM

It's interesting what a TV show will do for some past bands/songwriters... read the whole article about how what happened to them.

 

 

Ten million people watched Sunday’s final episode of Breaking Bad, with a touching farewell scene set to Badfinger’s 1971 ballad Baby Blue. By Monday morning, the song had been downloaded more than 5,000 times, according to Neilsen Soundscan, boosting its sales by nearly 3,000 percent. Nielsen (NLSN)closes its sales week on Sunday nights, giving Badfinger only a few hours to boost its sales after the finale, so the song will probably jump even higher next week, when number-crunchers take the full measure of what’s already come to be known as Breaking Badfinger. Baby Blue is now a top-selling song on iTunes (AAPL) and is poised to hit the Billboard charts next week.

It’s a bittersweet moment for Badfinger, a Welsh band that suffered from financial mismanagement and saw its two main songwriters kill themselves over issues linked to royalty payments. All of which leads to the question: Where is the money going today?

 

http://www.businessw...baby-blue-money

 


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#2 BobPhelan

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Posted 07 October 2013 - 03:53 PM

Used it for the outro on my latest podcast. Good article.

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Posted 07 October 2013 - 08:30 PM

"Crystal Blue Persuasion" is better.


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