Black Lab outranked Rush In Canada- How Rude
Excerpts from: http://bumrushthecharts.blogspot.com/
Our one day push led to 72 hours of excitement as the charts slowly aggregated.
I believe these were our highest chart positions:
US: 11
Canada: 10
Netherlands: 2
Germany: 12
Sweden: 7
Portugal: 31
UK: 71
Australia: 35
Austria: 35
Denmark: 40
Finland: 42
Ireland: 54
Italy: 30
New Zealand: 56
Norway: 23
Switzerland: 42
Overall Top 100 Songs Chart
Netherlands: 15
Norway: 55
Canada: 53
US: 99
Germany:98
Sweden: 98
If you were to look at all of the other bands on the charts at the same time, Black Lab was the ONLY UNSIGNED BAND.
Just getting onto the charts is pretty huge. Note that there are record companies out there that can’t do what we did on the 24th.
Was there movement on the charts that wasn’t apparent because they only updated 3x in 24 hours? Possibly. Was there an Apple conspiracy to shut down the charts on Bum Rush day? I really doubt it.
Did traditional media take notice? Washington Post, BBC, San Jose Mercury, Billboard, Spin, CBC, Businessweek and others.
Was it a success? You tell me. The whole experiment was set up to show that podcasting and new media is a social movement that has a pretty far reach across the globe. Bum Rush got a lot of people inside and outside of new media talking, shed more light on podcasting and helped get some exposure for an unsigned band and helped them tell their story about how they were mistreated by a major record label.
Honestly, 100 percent the credit belongs to you, the podcasters, podcast listeners, bloggers and blog readers who took part in Bum Rush the Charts.
Imagine what we could have done if we had made it a whole Bum Rush week instead of a day?