TOP 20 - DRAKKAR PRODUCTIONS - JULY 2011

Best selling titles

1 EPHELES - Je Suis autrefois - DIGICD/LP
2 MORTIFERA - Vastiia Tenebrd Mortifera - DIGICD/LP
3 MORTIFERA - LOGO - PATCH
4 MORTIFERA - Maledictiih - DIGICD/LP
5 PATRIA - Liturgia Haeresis - DIGICD/LP
6 MORTIFERA - Maledictiih - TOUR TSHIRT/GIRLY
7 BLOOD RED FOG - DEMO
8 CELESTIA - Archaenae Perfectii - DIGICD/LP
9 CIEL NOCTURNE - Season of Solitude - DEMO
10 FEIGUR - II, Désolation - DIGIFILE CD
11 ABIGAIL - Welcome All Hellfuckers - CD/LP
12 ARYOS - Prophecie Acide - 7''EP
13 GRAND BELIAL'S KEY - The Bearded Hustler - TSHIRT
14 WATAIN - Casus Luciferi - CD
15 WATAIN - Rabid Death's Curse - CD
16 ABIGAIL - Forever Street Metal Bitch - CD/LP
17 ARCANUS TENEBRAE - Abyssum Invocare - 7''EP
18 ARGHOSLENT - Incorrigible Bigotry - DIGICD
19 ARGHOSLENT - War is to man - TSHIRT
20 ARMAGEDDA - Only True Believers - CD/LP

The third best-selling item is a patch?

For whatever reason, I find that depressing.

Yes, often, merch is selling much more than some good albums. Yes, it's a sad fact.
Still, it's good for us that people still cannot download merch.

We had some recent releases that haven't sold more than 50 copies in their physical format.

Noktu wrote:

Still, it's good for us that people still cannot download merch.

That is true. I suppose whatever it takes to keep Drakkar alive.

Out of curiousity, do the releases bundled with merchandise or box sets often sell better?

I do guess so, but we are not much into doing some commercially attractive packages in order to sell our releases. We prefer to release quality bands like we always did without doing outrageous promotion like many labels are doing. We believe that with time good bands end up to find their audience.

Noktu wrote:

I do guess so, but we are not much into doing some commercially attractive packages in order to sell our releases. We prefer to release quality bands like we always did without doing outrageous promotion like many labels are doing. We believe that with time good bands end up to find their audience.

And that, Sir, is why you'll only find me lingering around Drakkar. It's one of the very few labels/communities left with that mentality.