As part of the music industry price-fixing class action settlement, the music industry agreed to donate CDs to schools and libraries, at an estimated cost of $76 million. What are some of the CDs that the libraries are receiving?
One 10-library system received 1325 CDs. 482 of those CDs are:
57 copies “three mo’ tenors” (2001)
48 copies Mark Willis “loving every minute” 2001 (country)
47 copies “corridos de primera plana” by “Los Tucanes di Tijuana” (2000)
39 copies of “Christmas with Yolanda Adams”
37 copies of Michael Crawford’s “A Christmas Album” (Phantom of the Opera Broadway guy)
34 copies of the Bee Gees’ “This Is Where I Came In ” (2001)
34 copies “The Collector’s Series, Vol. 1” by Celine Dion
27 copies of a recording of Puccini’s Madam Butterfly
24 George Winston’s December (1982) (solo piano, jazz or new age)
23 copies of Aerosmith’s “Just Push play” (2001)
23 copies “A smooth Jazz Christmas” by Dave Koz and friends
21 copies of Son by four’s “Purest of Pain” (Latino pop band)
20 copies “symbols of Light” by Greg Osby (jazz)
20 copies “My kind of Christmas” by christina Aguilera
18 copies of Thalia’s “grandes exitos” (Latina artist, means “greatest hits”)
10 copies “A New day has Come” by Celine Dion
Nothing but the best.
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