DIDO?!? (was: Re: Bomb the Dissent; Re: hip hop top 10 / in my case)

From: Elson Trinidad (elson@westworld.com)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2001 - 03:47:14 CEST

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    At 05:56 PM 7/11/01 -0700, Marco wrote:
    >
    >Take dido's "No Angel" as an example, an album which I
    >quite liked when it came out (what, like two and half years
    >ago now?). This was a great album, but when released, it
    >was pretty much commercially ignored. To acheive
    >recognition, Dido's music had to appear as the theme to a
    >TV show, then have a song appear on a popular movie
    >soundtrack. To finally blip on the commercial radio radar,
    >she had a song sampled by Eminem, which was then played ad
    >nauseum. Total market saturation, now she's a somewhat big
    >star, sitting at the top of the charts.

    Spoeaking of Dido, is it true that she (who is a UK artist) is a rare case
    of being a relative unknown in her native Britain while a big star in the
    US and the rest of the world? Last I heard "No Angel" never even had a
    domestic release in the UK.
    >

    Hey, Dido's band has a turntablist...

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