Are We Famous Yet?

All this talk about Sixto Rodriguez and how someone could become famous in another country, sell music to a whole other culture of adoring fans and he, the artist, has no clue got me thinking; What if my band is famous somewhere else? What if our CD is a huge seller and we have legions of fans somewhere? How would I know? Well, one way is to do a Google search, which I did. The following are a SMALL sampling of the foreign web sites that are offering our CD, The Tooners’ Rocktasia, for sale.

http://www.priceminister.es/offer/buy/34334632/Rocktasia-CD-Album.html (? Spanish)
http://www.wowhd.co.uk/CD/tooners-rocktasia/dp/3423723 (the UK)
http://www.wowhd.co.uk/CD/tooners-rocktasia/dp/3423723 (New Zealand)
http://www.en.imusic.dk/page/cover/cd/0634479414237/tooners-2006-rocktasia-cd (Danish?)
http://shopping.achecerto.com.br/rocktasia-tooners-cd-usa-of-66927181.html (Spanish?)
http://www.ie.wowhd.com/CD/tooners-rocktasia/dp/3423723 (Ireland)
http://www.ie.wowhd.com/CD/tooners-rocktasia/dp/3423723 (France)
http://jpc-buch.de/Tooners/Rocktasia/d/339/1073345/show.html (German)
http://www.amazon.fr/Rocktasia-Tooners/dp/B000O784PM (France)
http://japanontop.com/index.php?key=C+MONK+2+9&page=4 (Japan)
http://sangeetstation.com/video/VideosList.cfm?t=Rocktasia (India)
http://www.film.leczeniezatok.waw.pl/rock+n+roll+rehab+reality+show/ (Poland?)
http://buzz.goo.ne.jp/review/pcid/110326481/ (China?)
http://www.priceminister.com/offer/buy/66590458/Rocktasia-CD-Album.html (Europe?)

 There are many sites that have a URL in a foreign language that my computer can’t translate but they seem mid-eastern or South East Asian and some of the above sites sell to multiple countries, mostly European, so I only included one site as an example.

I have no idea if any of these sites have sold any of our CDs but I suspect that if they have I will never hear about it. I’ll say one thing, getting distribution of your CD through CD Baby really gets it out there.

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