radio and the industry now has moved on from this kind of pop. It all has to be slickly produced urban influenced stuff or drastically different indie stuff. There is a market for pop still, but we are talking Hilary Duff kind of bubblepop and dancepop
Alternative Pop music, ala Carlton, Amos, et all, is a very tough sell these days. I believe Tori Amos' latest album has only sold 105,000 copies so far. Tori Amos is a big name in the scene. Her previous record sold nearly that amount in a week.
I think that Dido and Sarah McLachlan are the only two women of their genres who have really succeeded in recent years. But they havent even had to brave the 2005 onwards music scene which has seen a download driven market and a continued drop of sales.
Harmoniums sales in 2004 were disappointing, and they still would be today, but not nearly as much as they were then.
