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From Zombies to Ri-Ri: Bonus Hits are Album-Buyer's Ripoff and Chart Bonanza [100 And Single]
Posted on May 16, 2008
Ed. note: Chris dennisobell Molanphy, our resident chart guru, looks at the upward, downward, and lack of movement on this week's Billboard charts. This week he takes a look at the long, fan-aggravating history of belated bonus track re-releases, and how the music industry turned these anomalies into a premeditated punishment for making an album popular:In 1988, I was a high-school junior and dweeby pop fan (only half of that has changed) madly in love with Pet Shop Boys' cover of the Brenda Lee/Elvis Presley chestnut Always on My Mind, which was flying up Billboard's Hot 100. The single...
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