You know I was hoping you would post, because you're a maven on the charts and also even handed and broad in your tastes.
You're more of a dance music consumer then I, it seems, so you may have a better feel for public taste if you rate this somewhat higher then I did.
One of the most interesting question you raise: so FYE, the lead off single drops today, but is not on sale yet, and it's not possible for the official radio adds to start hitting much before the middle of Nov, just around when his album drops. So as Christmas buying season hits at Thanksgiving, the general radio audience will not have heard much beyond some early spins--like you say, not much time to build radio momentum.
The last few years, the labels seem to have leaned on having music out ahead of the album to keep the Idol artist in the public ear and if possible, expand their base before the records drop. I wonder why they didn't do that for any of the signed kids this year? Given the impossibly tight timeframe, maybe they just didn't have a song that felt 100% done and thought better to get it right then shoot for the earlier dates.
Some nervous fans on the boards have already wondered aloud if the AL team didn't choose to spend too much time on the numerous photo shoots and media, which might not pay off exactly right if it raised his celebrity quotient without effecting the record-buying market.
But then again, they must take comfort in the Daughtry album, since his album and single both came out in mid-November, the single seems to have grown steadily from the first, and the album did very well in holiday sales anyway (despite the lack of radio lead time) and then of course kept going and going. I'm sure his team feels like there's a good stretch between now and January 1.
I must say, I think the dropping of both Time for Miracles and For Your Entertainment at the same time was not such a great idea, especially when (outside the label's control) there's been month and months of leaks and demos of older Lambert material, as well as the non-starter "No Boundaries." Feels like for the casual reader who's vaguely aware of AL, there's been four or five rounds of "Here's a song from Adam Lambert, oh no wait, not really."
But I'm with you on the distorted picture that following Idol media gives you. It's an echo chamber that makes it seem as if "everyone" is discussing a handful of artists, rather then those artists being one piece of a busy media culture with hundreds and hundreds of characters in it.
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QueenJ
You know I was hoping you would post, because you're a maven on the charts and also even handed and broad in your tastes.
You're more of a dance music consumer then I, it seems, so you may have a better feel for public taste if you rate this somewhat higher then I did.
One of the most interesting question you raise: so FYE, the lead off single drops today, but is not on sale yet, and it's not possible for the official radio adds to start hitting much before the middle of Nov, just around when his album drops. So as Christmas buying season hits at Thanksgiving, the general radio audience will not have heard much beyond some early spins--like you say, not much time to build radio momentum.
The last few years, the labels seem to have leaned on having music out ahead of the album to keep the Idol artist in the public ear and if possible, expand their base before the records drop. I wonder why they didn't do that for any of the signed kids this year? Given the impossibly tight timeframe, maybe they just didn't have a song that felt 100% done and thought better to get it right then shoot for the earlier dates.
Some nervous fans on the boards have already wondered aloud if the AL team didn't choose to spend too much time on the numerous photo shoots and media, which might not pay off exactly right if it raised his celebrity quotient without effecting the record-buying market.
But then again, they must take comfort in the Daughtry album, since his album and single both came out in mid-November, the single seems to have grown steadily from the first, and the album did very well in holiday sales anyway (despite the lack of radio lead time) and then of course kept going and going. I'm sure his team feels like there's a good stretch between now and January 1.
I must say, I think the dropping of both Time for Miracles and For Your Entertainment at the same time was not such a great idea, especially when (outside the label's control) there's been month and months of leaks and demos of older Lambert material, as well as the non-starter "No Boundaries." Feels like for the casual reader who's vaguely aware of AL, there's been four or five rounds of "Here's a song from Adam Lambert, oh no wait, not really."
But I'm with you on the distorted picture that following Idol media gives you. It's an echo chamber that makes it seem as if "everyone" is discussing a handful of artists, rather then those artists being one piece of a busy media culture with hundreds and hundreds of characters in it.
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