Raising Sand raising the bottom line...

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http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2009/02/11/grammys_ease_way_for_mass_label/

> But when Virant and label founders Marian Leighton-Levy, Ken Irwin, 
> and Bill Nowlin returned from Los Angeles, where they celebrated into 
> Monday morning, they faced the same challenges as do every record 
> company executive.
>
> Even Plant seemed to understand, praising Rounder from the Staples 
> Center stage as "an independent label working against all sorts of 
> stuff, which is terrible, but thank you."
>
> Last year, Rounder cut its staff from more than 100 employees to 
> roughly 75, and at the time Nowlin (a Tufts grad like Irwin) admitted 
> uncertainty about the label's long-term future. "Keeping the record 
> company alive is the main goal," he said.
>
> The remarkable success of "Raising Sand" should go a long way in doing 
> that. Immediately after the awards, it flew to the top of the Amazon 
> music rankings as well as several digital download sites. So far it's 
> sold over a million copies in the United States and another million 
> worldwide.
>
> "There's no question that it will be just a tremendous boon," 
> Leighton-Levy said from Los Angeles on Monday. "It means a great deal 
> at this point in time to have a nice bounce like that come right back 
> to the bottom line."