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Post by (Artie Ziff) on Sept 19, 2011 12:22:34 GMT -5
Goes to all radio the week of September 25 from Billboard.biz. While I could never make it all the way through the debut single, this premierred over the weekend and I found it much more servicable to radio.
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Post by DJ General on Sept 19, 2011 17:25:34 GMT -5
I like this a lot. =)
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Oct 3, 2011 12:37:32 GMT -5
Top 50 on Alternative:
84 49 BLINK 182 After Midnight 101 43 58 1.114
Wonder if this'll get an adds date soon.
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Post by (Artie Ziff) on Oct 3, 2011 12:56:09 GMT -5
I would imagine the first post of the topic and the +77 increase in spins during said week have already answered your question.
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Post by allow that on Oct 4, 2011 7:37:20 GMT -5
Obvious choice. I hope it increases interest in this era. The whole thing seems so unhyped.
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Post by pen on Oct 4, 2011 12:40:50 GMT -5
Obvious choice. I hope it increases interest in this era. The whole thing seems so unhyped. And yet the album is predicted to sell over a 100,000 copies first week. |
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Post by allow that on Oct 4, 2011 14:54:43 GMT -5
100k is good, but I can't help but wonder if there was more promo how much higher it could have scanned. They were a huge band at one time. For hardcore fans (like me) this album has been a pipedream for so long, and now here it is. But it seems like a huge anticlimax after waiting so long. The band doesn't seem 100% in it and the label doesn't seem to want to promote it as if they were a major artist. There seems to be little effort to make new fans. I fear that the 100k+ are all hardcore fans like me and then this album will fall away too quickly.
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Post by Ron57 on Oct 4, 2011 17:01:18 GMT -5
Numbers are in.
They sold about 155k their first week. Pretty freakin solid if you ask me.
Edit: Also, they came in at #2 I believe. Right behind J. Cole. 210k for him I think.
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Post by American Idiot on Oct 4, 2011 18:56:06 GMT -5
Numbers are in. They sold about 155k their first week. Pretty freakin solid if you ask me. Especially for a band that hasn't been in the spotlight for seven to eight years. |
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Post by pen on Oct 5, 2011 1:45:05 GMT -5
100k is good, but I can't help but wonder if there was more promo how much higher it could have scanned. They were a huge band at one time. For hardcore fans (like me) this album has been a pipedream for so long, and now here it is. But it seems like a huge anticlimax after waiting so long. The band doesn't seem 100% in it and the label doesn't seem to want to promote it as if they were a major artist. There seems to be little effort to make new fans. I fear that the 100k+ are all hardcore fans like me and then this album will fall away too quickly. I'd say if a band still has that many hardcore fans after eight years, then they're doing pretty well for themselves. Honestly, I'm sure every fan of a band thinks a label could do better in promoting them. Isn't that the easiest target to always blame when a band doesn't succeed like we think they should? Of course! If the label had only thrown more money at things! It's not that simple, I'm sure. |
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Post by Gravity. on Oct 5, 2011 10:27:37 GMT -5
This was my favorite from Neighborhoods. I'm sure that it'll at least make the top five.
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Post by DJ General on Oct 6, 2011 12:05:21 GMT -5
Over 150k units in the first week is truly mind blowing! :O
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Post by allow that on Oct 6, 2011 14:09:09 GMT -5
I question the band more than the label in this case. I mean- after eight years of no blink 182 why release an Angels and Airwaves single right now of all times?
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Post by pen on Oct 6, 2011 14:12:52 GMT -5
I question the band more than the label in this case. I mean- after eight years of no blink 182 why release an Angels and Airwaves single right now of all times? Because Tom has been working on Love for the better part of the last two years, album and film both, and he thought Blink was going to get their album out earlier than they did, and why should he delay his work with AVA just because they fucked up their timetable? It's not like both projects can't coexist. I think AVA will get more attention from the movie than from the album anyway, and it's a little hard for AVA to overshadow Blink. Besides, it's not like Mark and Travis don't have their own projects that they do as well. |
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Post by Ron57 on Oct 7, 2011 1:49:35 GMT -5
Picked up the actual CD today. :)
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Oct 7, 2011 16:31:11 GMT -5
Goes for adds October 17.
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Oct 8, 2011 12:01:38 GMT -5
Top 40 on Alternative:
59 40 BLINK 182 After Midnight 169 76 93 1.466
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Post by Ron57 on Oct 8, 2011 20:11:01 GMT -5
www.mediafire.com/?j58dh0g7ukjko51If anyone cares I covered the 2nd track off the album - Natives...changed it a bit. Not perfect, some timing and stuff is off cuz It was a rough quick demo. But lemme know what you think. Anyway, funny story. I stupidly bought this album at Walmart...forgetting that they don't allow explicit lyrics. Freaking censored albums suck.
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Post by lockebox on Oct 21, 2011 18:29:23 GMT -5
Top 30 - Alternative
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Post by Devin on Oct 22, 2011 13:30:57 GMT -5
I really want "Kaleidoscope" as the third and possibly/probable final single from the album.
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Post by DJ General on Oct 22, 2011 16:18:20 GMT -5
I think they will probably have four singles. "Up All Night" did really good, and I'm sure this will be another big hit.
Their last album had 4 singles. This album has a lot of single potential
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Oct 22, 2011 22:08:01 GMT -5
I think "Heart's All Gone" would be good.
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Post by American Idiot on Oct 23, 2011 0:56:23 GMT -5
I think "Heart's All Gone" would be good. Not just good. Great! |
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Post by pen on Oct 23, 2011 1:40:20 GMT -5
I think "Heart's All Gone" is too unremarkable to be a single. It's a standard fast punk song, and while it's a good song, it has nothing really going for it that screams "single". For single #3 I would want "Ghost On The Dance Floor", although "Natives" or "Wishing Well" seems far more likely. If there was any chance for a Deluxe track being chosen, I'd pick "Snake Charmer" in a heartbeat.
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Post by Devin on Oct 23, 2011 9:44:52 GMT -5
^ What are your thoughts on "Kaleidoscope" as a single then?
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 23, 2011 9:47:55 GMT -5
This isn't a remake of an Eric Clapton song, I guess.
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Post by pen on Oct 23, 2011 11:06:54 GMT -5
^ What are your thoughts on "Kaleidoscope" as a single then? (shrugs) I think the other songs are better choices, personally. |
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Oct 27, 2011 14:28:57 GMT -5
[This album has been hyped so much over the past two years] and now here it is. But it seems like a huge anticlimax after waiting so long. The band doesn't seem 100% in it and the label doesn't seem to want to promote it as if they were a major artist. I fear that the 100k+ are all hardcore fans like me and then this album will fall away too quickly. I agree very much with where you're coming from, more so than anyone else posting in this topic it seems. I put my own spin on your quote because you already said perfectly a lot of what I was thinking. "Up All Night" just wasn't quite the home run of quality that it needed to be. For all the hype of new Blink music, it should've been a multi-week #1. If this had been, say, 2007, 2008, it very well may have been. I was frustrated, but not the least bit surprised when it only topped out at #3. And you know once it goes recurrent, you'll never hear it again. Hell, even the most enduring radio single from their last album seems to be "I Miss You" and even that's not regularly forced down my throat the way "Dammit," "What's My Age Again," "All the Small Things," and to a lesser extent, "Josie," "Stay Together for the Kids," and "First Date" are. This comeback album seems destined to be a (relative) commercial flop. The Blink guys seem to be into their band (with Mark easily being the most enthusiastic of the three), but because of all the other projects they're involved in, and because they've all become superstar celebrities in their own right, they have way too many handlers in their business now and it's like a huge, detached machine. For their Alternative Press cover story (the major magazine that's clearly been more supportive of their career than any other), the writer was only granted a half-hour joint interview with Mark and Tom, which was then cut short by a publicist. Travis was apparently too busy/inaccessible to bother sitting down for the reporter at all. So if this album, which is surprisingly solid, ends up stiffing and not breaking even for the label because the band members are too busy to give their full attention to promoting it, they'll have no one to blame but themselves. I think "Heart's All Gone" is too unremarkable to be a single. It's a standard fast punk song, and while it's a good song, it has nothing really going for it that screams "single". For single #3 I would want "Ghost On The Dance Floor", although "Natives" or "Wishing Well" seems far more likely. If there was any chance for a Deluxe track being chosen, I'd pick "Snake Charmer" in a heartbeat. "Heart's All Gone" is easily my favorite because it's faster and more direct than any of the other songs. However, I can also see it doing a lackluster job as a single because it's so straightforward. Don't really know what my thoughts about other singles are because, while I played the album in my car constantly for three weeks, I can't see the forest for the trees yet, if you will. |
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Post by lockebox on Nov 4, 2011 7:45:28 GMT -5
Top 20 - Alternative
23 20 BLINK-182 - After Midnight 588 463 125 2.246
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Dec 28, 2011 10:36:42 GMT -5
Top 10 on Alternative:
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