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Dualtone's success is based on keeping things simple "We're not MCA. We're not Sony. We don't have all the tools they have to play those games. All we have are great artists and great records."
Two of Dualtone Music Group's most successful CDs received substantial media attention last year. "At the end of the year USA Today listed their top 10 country records of the year and their worst country records of the year," says Dan Herrington just before Scott Robinson chimes in to exclaim, "And we made both categories! We were really proud."
The newspaper was referring to David Ball's critically acclaimed album Amigo, which spawned the hit Country single "Riding With Private Malone." The "worst" designation went to Hayseed Dixie's A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC, which features bluegrass versions of the hard rock band's best-known material.
Herrington and Robinson are co-founders of Dualtone, ~not to mention being 40% of the independent company's five-person frill-time staff. As for sales figures for the two albums, 400,000 copies of Ball's album have been shipped, and the title has sold almost 300,000 copies. "It should be a Gold record by year's end," Herrington notes.
Hayseed Dixie's album, a combination of stellar musicianship and a warped sense of humor, was chosen as the label's very firstrelease to prove that Dualtone was looking at things a little differently. The project has now sold more than 100,000 units. Hayseed Dixie even had the honor of providing the music at a party AC/DC hosted when they finished their last string of U.S. dates.
When asked about Dualtone's primary objective, Herrington laughs and says, "To narrow the gap between us and RCA."
Robinson adds, "Our goal is to take RCA from having a 32% ownership of the charts to maybe a 31.5% ownership of the charts."
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