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Post by Soaked on Aug 21, 2012 21:09:00 GMT -5
OT but just WOW!! Billboard @billboard Official: @taylorswift13's "Never" song sells 623,000; sets female digital record bit.ly/O3JMRE There was a deal with Clear Channel and the label. They played it every hour on the hour for the whole week! (As if she needed that promo!) :  How can they land that kind of deal? I asked a question before about when the label can and can't pay the radio. Do you know anything about this? |
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Post by Soaked on Aug 21, 2012 21:12:09 GMT -5
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Post by Q3 on Aug 21, 2012 21:17:25 GMT -5
There was a deal with Clear Channel and the label. They played it every hour on the hour for the whole week! (As if she needed that promo!) : How can they land that kind of deal? I asked a question before about when the label can and can't pay the radio. Do you know anything about this? They can make a deal like this when they have a "guaranteed" hit. TS, Katy Perry and maybe Gaga. This TS song will be her 7th #1 hit, plus she has 4 #2, and 2 #3 singles. And Red will be her 3rd #1 album in a row. When you rack up numbers like this, it is a safe bet for CC - and radio loves a "sure thing". |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2012 21:18:48 GMT -5
There was a deal with Clear Channel and the label. They played it every hour on the hour for the whole week! Gaga's BTW had a ton of radio support and hype, maybe more -- and TS blew that record (448K, 509K week 2) away. 623K units in a short week, in August, is amazing. If she has a strong week 2, she will hit 1 million (US) in a week. I think Madonna had a deal like this too. I don't know exactly how it works, but I know part of it is that the stations have to make it clear that it is "advertising." I really don't know the particulars, but I'm sure Q3 does and she can correct me if I am wrong. Which could be! I happen to like Taylor Swift. She works her butt off and writes songs for teenage girls and they respond. This song is really different & weird, but if I were a teenage girl, I think I'd love it! She is 22 but comes across as much younger, to me. Not sure how her songs will transition to her being older. I would say this is the last time she might be able to use songs like this one. Oh, and interestingly, there is absolutely nothing Country about this song! Of course, I could be wrong too. Because Carly Rae Jepson is 26 and acts 16 and gets away with it! |
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Post by satisfied on Aug 21, 2012 21:25:10 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2012 21:32:19 GMT -5
Just an interesting comment my husband shared -- if I wasn't keeping him up on Adam news, he wouldn't have seen anything or read anything about him in "regular" news sources. We both discussed that Elton's benefit which drew a very large crowd, was also the weekend of the big soccer match, and featured Queen was not like made known to "regular folk". Now, my husband would not have been looking for it BUT he does work in a national newsroom which obviously sees alot of stuff sift through. We (meaning us) are indeed in an Adam bubble.
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Post by Q3 on Aug 21, 2012 21:34:31 GMT -5
Gaga's BTW had a ton of radio support and hype, maybe more -- and TS blew that record (448K, 509K week 2) away. 623K units in a short week, in August, is amazing. If she has a strong week 2, she will hit 1 million (US) in a week. I think Madonna had a deal like this too. I don't know exactly how it works, but I know part of it is that the stations have to make it clear that it is "advertising." I really don't know the particulars, but I'm sure Q3 does and she can correct me if I am wrong. Which could be! I happen to like Taylor Swift. She works her butt off and writes songs for teenage girls and they respond. This song is really different & weird, but if I were a teenage girl, I think I'd love it! She is 22 but comes across as much younger, to me. Not sure how her songs will transition to her being older. I would say this is the last time she might be able to use songs like this one. Oh, and interestingly, there is absolutely nothing Country about this song! Of course, I could be wrong too. Because Carly Rae Jepson is 26 and acts 16 and gets away with it! Madonna (her label) paid for a lot, not all of her airplay -- and that made it an ad. It has to be IDed as an advertisement and does not count for BBoard charts. TS' airplay was not an ad. "It arrives after being released to digital retailers and radio only late Monday (Aug. 13), with its first two days of airplay accounting for a No. 25 start on Radio Songs (40 million audience impressions, according to Nielsen BDS). As previously reported, that's the best bow for a new song by a country act in the Radio Songs chart's 21-year history." Read more at www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/record-labels/taylor-swift-s-new-single-debuts-on-hot-1007839962.story#mDXCSb812dHUywKD.99It is also charting in the Top 10 in the UK, NZ, and many other countries. It was #1 on iTunes in 31 countries. This is not about some US radio airplay scheme. Setting that aside -- the credits on the song: Writer(s) Taylor Swift, Max Martin, ShellbackProducer Max Martin, Shellback, Dann Huff |
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Post by Soaked on Aug 21, 2012 21:35:36 GMT -5
How can they land that kind of deal? I asked a question before about when the label can and can't pay the radio. Do you know anything about this? They can make a deal like this when they have a "guaranteed" hit. TS, Katy Perry and maybe Gaga. This TS song will be her 7th #1 hit, plus she has 4 #2, and 2 #3 singles. And Red will be her 3rd #1 album in a row. When you rack up numbers like this, it is a safe bet for CC - and radio loves a "sure thing". Thanks I don't know about the US, but here in Toronto, Gaga's Born This Way was played every hour too. I wondered how she could be that special? I wasn't sure how long that special treatment lasted though. However, I heard from one of her fans, who is also a glambert, that they had to make a lot of calls to radio stations to request Marry The Night. I was surprised, I thought they didn't have to. I heard MTN a lot on the radio. |
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Post by adamme on Aug 21, 2012 21:37:07 GMT -5
Gaga's BTW had a ton of radio support and hype, maybe more -- and TS blew that record (448K, 509K week 2) away. 623K units in a short week, in August, is amazing. If she has a strong week 2, she will hit 1 million (US) in a week. I think Madonna had a deal like this too. I don't know exactly how it works, but I know part of it is that the stations have to make it clear that it is "advertising." I really don't know the particulars, but I'm sure Q3 does and she can correct me if I am wrong. Which could be! I happen to like Taylor Swift. She works her butt off and writes songs for teenage girls and they respond. This song is really different & weird, but if I were a teenage girl, I think I'd love it! She is 22 but comes across as much younger, to me. Not sure how her songs will transition to her being older. I would say this is the last time she might be able to use songs like this one. Oh, and interestingly, there is absolutely nothing Country about this song! Of course, I could be wrong too. Because Carly Rae Jepson is 26 and acts 16 and gets away with it! eww... something is really wrong with her |
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Post by Q3 on Aug 21, 2012 21:38:05 GMT -5
I really want to know Adam's new single and be about to request it.
>> I may be dreaming but why the announcement delay? Paired with today's news and Shos' tweet -- I must ask -- Is it related to Idol?
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