The top 20 ticket sellers of 2008 are in and there are 11 bands/artists that can be considered rock. Even though I would consider Coldplay to be more Pop music than rock, we’ll give it to them here.

The Eagles took #4, selling 90.7 million dollars in tickets. The Eagles released their first studio album since 1979 with The Long Road Out Of Edin which sold over 7 million copies in the U.S. and was sold Exclusively through Walmart and Sam’s Club for the first year of it’s release.

Bands like AC/DC, The Eagles and Journey have all taken the retail route to record sales and I can’t blame them. It puts it out there in the fans face and makes it easy to find old and new releases. It’s just good marketing.
So with that, there is rumors of a negotiation to release Guns N Roses next release, Chinese Democracy vie Wlamart and Best Buy type retailers. Is it a good idea…of course it is. However I see one problem. Walmart doesn’t sell explicit cd’s with knowledge that they have explicit content, so will they only sell an …read more