Gene Simmons: No more KISS albums until there is ‘a financial model that works’

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According to Gene Simmons, there isn’t going to be another KISS album unless there are some major changes in the way music is consumed..

While the band’s popularity, at least at the consumer level, has ebbed and flowed over the years, their last couple of albums have been major disappointments from a sales perspective. KISS have released twenty studio albums only four of which have not gone, at a minimum, gold (500,000 units sold). 1981’s Music From “The Elder” has sold about 375,000 copies while the more recent Carnival of Souls (1997) is at 181,000, Sonic Boom (2008) at 325,000 and Monster (2012) with 200,000.

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