Silversun Pickups have been around since 2005 and so I guess no one really considers them overnight successes. But are they really successes at all?
While it it is a bit redundant to pick on SP, they are not much better or worse than the majority, truly they define a band that is a question of taste, they just happened to catch my eye.
SP are reach the Billboard Album top ten albums next week (we will have it Friday as always), with a paltry 40,000 units shifted and, yes, the question remains, are the charts a joke? And are they easy to fix.
Let's say you have a band you really believe in, what's to stop you investing a million bucks and a team of assistants and buying up 40,000 or 100,000 units and letting the fans decide whether the band is good with all the additional publicity a hit album will get you. I don't think it is even illegal. I mean, maybe it is chart fixing I guess…
It takes me back to my idea of promoting an Elliott Smith song into a top ten hit for next Christmas -the numbers are so miniscule, it seems doable by anybody a little bigger than us…
And what it proves us had easily it is becoming to mold tastes…