Experimenting with "featured album" on the home page

We're trying out a new idea, of a "featured album" on the Magnatune home page at http://magnatune.com/

If you go there now, you'll see, on the lower right hand side of the page, a small album cover and description of
Featured Album: Welcome Om by Christopher of the Wolves

The plan is to rotate the featured album regularly. But first, we want to see if the featured album on the home page (making it easy to find something to listen to) increases overall sales, or just directs people to buy more of the featured album.

-john

Comments

[Gordon Smith]

I'm unlikely to visit the Magnatune home page on a regular enough basis to see every "featured album". I *am* likely to read every word if "featured album" information comes to me by way of an RSS feed. Food for thought?

[Nathan Jones]

I second the call for a Featured Album RSS (or Atom) feed. Sites I have to remember to visit don't get much traffic from me.

[Nathan Jones]

One more comment: maybe the Staff Pick could be higlighted more by enclosing it in a box with a different background colour (slightly lighter blue?).