Hi,
Just a thought here - I feel there should be sufficient time gap between 2 ARR
releases... Though we feel elated on getting two albums separated by a few
days, we should also look at the other side of the coin... one ARR album
cannibalises the sales of the other one....
Two albums in one month (let alone in 1 day) will not be affordable to all. Not
many would want to spend on two albums in one month.... Moreover, there are
lots of students who are ARR fans, and they can't afford 2 albums. And of
course, they can't wait... They download MP3s, and once they get MP3s, they
never buy the album..
I know at least 4 friends of mine who are students, who used to buy all of ARR
CDs. They couldnt afford both Ada and JTYJN, so they bought just JTYJN....
Reason: parents object to 2 albums in a month! These are no isolated cases, and
i guess this must be happening everywhere...
On a similar note, two movies of the same lead-actor never release on the same
day. If two films of an actor are ready for release at about the same time, the
producers of the two films negotiate and one of them postpones the release by a
few weeks.... I've seen that happen many times in tamil film industry.
Similarly, can't ARR can also intervene in audio release dates? I'm sure he
will hav that much influence...
Just my two cents..
Aravind
