We fit into the punk/skate genre, our debut albums ready to be pressed, going with 1K for starters. Recorded in the UK, mixed in the US by a guy with 8 million worldwide album sales to his name as a producer/mixer, plus singles inc one that appeared in that TV prog.

go with download only via an aggregator and flog the physicals on the gigs...sounds like you'll shift 1K in five minutes with your profile. In fact, why not go for an exclusive i.e. you can only buy the CDs on the gigs?

Are you having fun yet?

I Agree with Big End here. Flog the physicals on your website and at gigs. It makes sense and will breath new life back into physicals.

If you go with www.dittomusic.com they can do both physicals and digital for you. Alternatively with a little bit more work you can use www.artists-first.net for your physicals to get chart eligible sales.

Fantastic times.

The only trouble is with the cd`s at gigs, speaking from our point of view, in which we cleared a whole 100 run on one night and needed more, these are paid sales, but not logged.
Correct me I`m wrong somebody, but 100 sales in a megastore in an hour, I think, makes a dent for a chart place.

The cleverest move on physicals, (IF we need them which I don`t believe we do), is to, in a live situation still use your following as your street team.

There have already been some problems on street teams buying downloads though. Its very early days for this combination of formats.

In my daily e-mail from Napster today, the top recomended download was Cat Stevens` "Wild World".

Yes these are fantastic and exciting times KZ, but I tell you what, we have to be prepared to compete our new music,with classic songs that have been around for decades.

I hear you Mart, but are the charts relevant any more? Does anyone, Jo Public wise, care?