Woodward posted some fantastic links to pages detailing Motown/Gordy/Tamla 45s and albums. One thing I found interesting was to see that so many albums either didn't chart or charted fairly low. I've read how back then, it was really a singles market as opposed to albums. Still I can't help but wonder if Motown lost a lot of money on the albums that didn't chart or charted on the lower rungs.

Would love to hear from others with insigts into how this worked with album sales- were the artists and Motown duly concerned or was the album more or less just seen as a loss leader of some sort?