Live Comfortable With Slow Sales Of 'The Distance To Here'

11/19/1999 6:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen

(11/19/99, 6 p.m. ET) - With Live's previous two smashes, one would think that the slow sales start of its new release, The Distance To Here, might be discouraging to the band. The album was released a month ago, and it hasn't yet reached the gold mark for sales in excess of 500,000.

The sales figures, however, don't bother frontman Edward Kowalczyk, who tells LAUNCH that making a good album is more important than sales. "We were in, I think, top form as writers and just really focussed," he says. "You know, commercial success for us or whatever is really a distant second to us just being satisfied as artists. We knew that after Secret Samadhi we really wanted to make a different type of record and a very strong record, and I think we did it."

Also, Live is prepared to let its albums go the distance. Throwing Copper is the band's biggest-selling album, surpassing the 7 million mark in sales. It was initially released on April 26 in 1994, but it didn't get certified platinum, for sales of 1 million copies, until March 1995. Secret Samadhi sold more than 2 million copies.

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-- Text and photo by Darren Davis, New York

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