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Johnny Borrell has spoken out about the dismal sales for his debut solo album, claiming he feels like he "connected with songwriting again."
Borrell 1, released in July this year, sold only 594 copies in its first week and attracted derision from critics for the rather bizarre choice of song names, such as 'Pan-European Supermodel Song (Oh! Gina)'.
However, the former Razorlight frontman has told Drowned In Sound he doesn't care how many people bought his record, he's just happy people heard it. "It is being heard and appreciated by as many people as possible! It is! If that’s 500 people, that’s 500 people," he said. "If those are the 500 people that are open enough at this point in time to hear this record, fucking fantastic man."
Watch the video for Johnny Borrell's 'Cyrano Masochiste' below:
Borrell added he'd rather play to a small amount of people that care about his music then a large group that don't, saying: "On a personal level, I feel like I connected with songwriting again. I would rather play to 80 people who are switched on enough, and unprejudiced enough, to get what’s going on with this band right now, than to play to 80,000 people who are there because that’s the CD that's out this year or whatever."
Borrell found fame with his band Razorlight in 2004 with their hit debut Rip It Up, which included massive tracks 'Golden Touch' and 'Stumble and Fall'. The band embarked on a hiatus two albums later after members left. Following the poor sales of Borrell's solo effort, his label Stiff Records released a statement reading: "First week sales of 594 make 'Borrell 1' the 15,678th best-selling album of the year to date. So far we've achieved 0.00015 per cent sales of Adele's '21'."
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