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Post by Markus Meyer on Feb 2, 2015 22:48:21 GMT -5
Lady A totally missed the boat with not releasing "Golden" or even "And The Radio Played". I understand they were following their fans wishes to release more tempo songs after the dismal "Wanted You More". But don't keep releasing the same tempo songs that sound exactly the same (Compass, Bartender, Freestyle). I definately agree with poster above, they are trying way to hard to be something they are not. They should stick to their guns. I actually think they would sound great with a more rootsier, acoustic approach. Maybe even try out Jay Joyce as producer on next album?? I can see them losing alot of momentum after this, and 747 is not an album of good songs IMHO. I think they are capable of much better As for 747, I think it's one of their BEST albums. Yup, me too, I'd probably put it in my top 5 Lady A albums.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Feb 2, 2015 23:23:21 GMT -5
As for 747, I think it's one of their BEST albums. Yup, me too, I'd probably put it in my top 5 Lady A albums. I see what you did there.
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Feb 3, 2015 3:26:01 GMT -5
I see this pulling off Brad Paisley's "Camouflage"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2015 0:34:11 GMT -5
They'll push this as far as radio will allow them to, to at least Top 10. I dont' see Capitol quitting on this one any time soon. It's not this simple though. "Freestyle" only gained 0.133 million on Billboard this past week, and it's almost a full 6 million behind the #15 song. Kenny Chesney will go recurrent on Monday, but I don't see anybody else who's ready to fall off. And at this point, "Freestyle" is still about 10-11 million away from the top 10. It's a 16-week old song and it's not going up nearly fast enough--I expect it to run out of steam by the end of the month or sometime in March at the latest. Capitol pushed "Goodbye Town" as hard as they could and it didn't go top 10, and "Freestyle" is connecting even less with audiences than GT did. I don't see this one going top 10...in fact I'm not even sure if I see it getting higher than #16. And this barely even made #16 last night--it finished just 0.001 million ahead of Jake Owen. Literally one more spin for Jake's song on any station would've pushed him ahead of "Freestyle". There's a good chance that this one might fall backward next week, possibly getting passed by Jake, Dierks, and ZBB. There are just too many high-momentum releases lined up behind Lady A, and not enough openings up ahead for this one to get into that top 15/top 10 tier at the moment, and again, its chart run is starting to get pretty long in the tooth for a Lady A single.
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Post by Envoirment on Feb 4, 2015 18:47:09 GMT -5
Sad to see this not looking likely to go top 10, I quite like it.
"Long Stretch of Love" was recently playlisted by BBC Radio 2 in the UK (The largest radio station), so perhaps that's a sign it'll be the next single serviced to country radio.
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Post by drummerman2009 on Feb 14, 2015 11:09:36 GMT -5
The song sounds more like something that Florida Georgia Line would have recorded rather than Lady A. If they're trying to win more fans by writing and recording a semi bro-country song then it's not working. I expected more from Lady A but here lately they're not trying too much.
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Post by layne on Feb 14, 2015 11:45:28 GMT -5
I'm glad this looks to be close to done. This is one of several Shane McAnally co-writes that I've been disappointed with that has been released as a single.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2015 12:01:44 GMT -5
The song sounds more like something that Florida Georgia Line would have recorded rather than Lady A. If they're trying to win more fans by writing and recording a semi bro-country song then it's not working. I expected more from Lady A but here lately they're not trying too much. This doesn't sound anything like a Florida Georgia Line song in my opinion, or bro-country for that matter. It sounds to me like a song about nothing...there's really no central theme or hook here, and I think that's the main reason why this hasn't connected at radio or with fans. It's just not a good song, and there's nothing memorable about it.
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Post by sabre14 on Feb 14, 2015 14:21:05 GMT -5
I'm glad this looks to be close to done. This is one of several Shane McAnally co-writes that I've been disappointed with that has been released as a single. Yeah, this is finished. I suppose Capitol could try and revive this next week (even tomorrow, to lessen the blow of losses) but it's certainly not getting any higher than where its at currently. "Freestyle" has lost 917k in audience this week with a horrible -300k in lost audience today. The most unreal number is the sales. It's almost laughable how ugly this song's sales are. It's currently #714 on the all-genre chart. For a song that's in the top 20 on both MB and Billboard, from a big named artist, that's pretty darn hard to accomplish. The next lowest sales number from a song inside the top 20 is Chase Bryant's "Take It On Back" at #189 on the all-genre chart - that's a stupid bad discrepancy. Like it's been mentioned before, this was a horrible choice for a follow up to "Bartender". I really think they wanted to stay clear from a slow song or ballad of any kind since the last couple times they've attempted that, it's resulted in under performance. But even with that logic, "Freestyle" is just not that good of a song and is one that listeners just don't care for when it comes on the radio. It's basically background music when I hear this come on my car stereo - I just start daydreaming about something else, rather than the song, and I believe I'm not the only one judging by this song's sales and chart performance.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2015 14:42:05 GMT -5
I really don't understand what is going on with Lady A. I understand why "Freestyle" is struggling (although, as sabre14 says above, their struggles with this one are insanely bad), but I don't understand the overall direction that this group is going in. I feel like they're trying way too hard and it's completely backfiring. They had a great mix of uptempos and ballads on Golden, and I feel like almost any of the unreleased tracks on there could have been a big hit. Obviously "Compass" and "Bartender" turned out to be big hits (it was a no-brainer that something as immediate as "Bartender" would be a hit), but the fact that they'd release a song like "Freestyle" to radio while passing up on songs like "Better Off (Now That You're Gone)", "It Ain't Pretty", "Long Teenage Goodbye", and "All For Love" from the Golden album is absolutely perplexing to me. The 747 album doesn't even look like it will go Gold. It's less than halfway there right now (<250k sold). It's just absolutely amazing how their sales have fallen off. Lady Antebellum - 2x Platinum Need You Now - 4x Platinum Own The Night - 1.9 million sold Golden - 750k sold 747 - 230k sold Obviously marketplace sales overall have trended downward from what they were several years ago, but Lady A's commercial decline has been extremely steep. Most other artists have also trended downward in sales from 2010, but not by nearly as much as Lady A has in such a short amount of time.
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Post by layne on Feb 14, 2015 17:52:56 GMT -5
I feel like Lady A panicked over "Wanted You More" underperforming at radio. Since that happened they have tried too hard to create a different sound/style and imo it just doesn't fit. Every Artist has songs that don't do as well on radio at times. Trying to abandon what made them huge was a huge mistake. I know a lot of people on here were bored with them and their ballad sounds, but to me, the mid-tempo adult contemporary sound is what they are best at. Their current album has a ton of songs that would have been huge hits over this one. Lie With Me, Long Stretch of Love, She Is, etc were all songs that at least wouldn't sound like they are trying too hard to be something they aren't.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Feb 15, 2015 4:30:20 GMT -5
I'm not too familiar with 747 (listened to it once, didn't really impress me), but I know that there had to be stronger single options than "Freestyle" that were also uptempo (I see "Long Stretch of Love" and the title track mentioned a lot, for instance). The problem is not that they should've gone with a ballad, it's that they shouldn't have released a song that sucks. I didn't care for "Bartender," but I saw it's appeal, whereas with this one, I just don't see it -- and apparently hardly anyone else sees it either given that no one is buying it. Lady A really left some great single options on the table when they panicked and moved on from Golden early, but the choice to release "Freestyle" is even worse. I agree with jhomes87 in saying that "Better Off (Now That You're Gone)" or "All for Love," i.e. were definitely more single-worthy than this. And I still say that leaving "And the Radio Played" an album track was the biggest WTF, especially after going through the trouble of doing the re-release at all.
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Post by sabre14 on Feb 15, 2015 14:39:33 GMT -5
The 747 album doesn't even look like it will go Gold. It's less than halfway there right now (<250k sold). It's just absolutely amazing how their sales have fallen off. Lady Antebellum - 2x Platinum Need You Now - 4x Platinum Own The Night - 1.9 million sold Golden - 750k sold747 - 230k sold Obviously marketplace sales overall have trended downward from what they were several years ago, but Lady A's commercial decline has been extremely steep. Most other artists have also trended downward in sales from 2010, but not by nearly as much as Lady A has in such a short amount of time. the post before yours "Freestyle" has lost 917k in audience this week with a horrible -300k in lost audience today. The most unreal number is the sales. It's almost laughable how ugly this song's sales are. It's currently #714 on the all-genre chart. For a song that's in the top 20 on both MB and Billboard, from a big named artist, that's pretty darn hard to accomplish. Right now Freestyle is in fact at #799 on the all genre chart. Bartender is at #280. WOW I didn't realize it was doing this bad. If you look at this thread in whole, you can see that "Freestyle" has been selling horribly for the duration of its time at radio. Songs that are two or more years old are outselling this song right now ("Highway 20 Ride", "Springsteen", "Dirt Road Anthem", "Love Story", "Boys Round Here", "Chicken Fried", "Country Girl (Shake It For Me)", "Wagon Wheel"). "Freestyle" is currently at #96 on the iTunes Country Chart and #773 on the all-genre chart. I agree with layne that this band got a little too worried over the under performance of "Wanted You More" and even "Goodbye Town". They clearly have been trying to loosen up their sound and it's starting to backfire on them. Even though I don't really enjoy some of their ballads or slower songs, I really think "Need You Now", "Hello World", "Dancin' Away With My Heart" and "Wanted You More" are songs they do well and have a nitch for. I really think they should stop bouncing from one musical direction to another with every single they release because I think radio and fans aren't feeling so great about it. I just wish they went with almost anything else at the follow up to "Bartender"; but the damage has already been done with the pitiful performance of "Freestyle".
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Post by BlueShades874 on Feb 18, 2015 8:06:37 GMT -5
It looks like this song is finally done. I'm honestly a little surprised it got to the top 20 given its low sales and the fact that even a lot of their biggest fans don't seem to be connecting with this song at all. Lady A's single choices have been so frustrating over the last several years. So many good choices off of Golden left as album tracks, like Better Off Now and And The Radio Played from the deluxe edition. I liked Freestyle ok when it first came out, but I got burned out on it very quickly. Then I listened to the entire new cd and I would honestly say that Freestyle is the weakest song on there. I really hope that they realize it was a bad choice and that there are potential big hits on this album. I'm really hoping to see Lie With Me and 747 be released, as I think those are the two biggest hits on the album. Then they REALLY need to take a break and take their time on their next album and not keep rushing new music out.
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Post by zaclord 🌈 on Feb 18, 2015 10:16:36 GMT -5
"Freestyle" is by far the worst song on their album. I have no idea whose idea it was to release this, but obviously it was not a smart decision. "Lie With Me" is a classic Lady A sound that has smash written all over it, but "Freestyle" may have squandered any chance at success for a third single. Its sad because 747 is my favorite Lady A album since their debut, so they finally started heading back into a good direction musically, in my opinion, after each album getting progressively worse, but now a lot of these fantastic songs won't have a chance at being released because LadyA/the label/the mgmt chose this song to screw up the era. "She Is", "Long Stretch of Love", "Sounded Good at the Time", "Falling For You", or "747" would all be great singles, as would the previously mentioned "Lie With Me". Let's hope one of these songs can gain them some momentum back.
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Post by dm2081 on Feb 18, 2015 11:06:40 GMT -5
^I'm not sold that all of their momentum has been completely derailed yet. A lot of bigger artists have been able to recover from songs stalling out on the charts (Jake Owen followed up Days of Gold's #15 peak with a huge #1 smash, Jason Aldean followed up 1994 with the huge hit Night Train, etc.). The album is still selling well too, so that helps. Like it's been said multiple times on here, Lady A needs to release a song that will satisfy their fan base and also remains true to their traditional sound. "Lie With Me", "747" (my favorite from the album), and "Long Stretch of Love" all seem to fit the bill. Their still a big name, and while "Freestyle" didn't do well on the charts, it at least wasn't something offensive or left them looking really silly (see Jerrod Niemman's Donkey). I think Lady A will be fine, but they can't squander this next single.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Feb 18, 2015 12:46:24 GMT -5
The album is still selling well too, so that helps. I agree that "Freestyle" likely wasn't a big enough era-derailer that a more popular track (or two) from the album couldn't still be a hit and regain some of their momentum back. But jhomes87 fleshed out up-thread that this album actually isn't selling that well.
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Post by sabre14 on Feb 18, 2015 12:48:37 GMT -5
It looks like this song is finally done. I'm honestly a little surprised it got to the top 20 given its low sales and the fact that even a lot of their biggest fans don't seem to be connecting with this song at all. I wasn't surprised at all this got top 20. They are Lady Antebellum after all, and unless its a super polarizing song like "Donkey", anything they chose would have gotten this far since they are one of the biggest names in the genre and they are coming off a huge #1 single and new album release. But this is the point most knew it would falter unless its sales picked up and that never came to be. I agree with the consensus though - I'm glad this is finished as I find it utterly uninteresting.
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Post by trustypepper on Feb 18, 2015 20:00:19 GMT -5
The airplay on my station for this song is unbelievable but is this ever going to hit the Hot 100 even?
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Post by .indulgecountry on Feb 18, 2015 20:11:38 GMT -5
The airplay on my station for this song is unbelievable but is this ever going to hit the Hot 100 even? Well it's peaked and dropping in airplay now, so it looks like #101 will be its peak (#1 on the Bubbling Under).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2015 9:05:34 GMT -5
Well this one was treading in the negatives for a while, but I didn't think it was anything they couldn't try to recover from (kind of like What We Ain't Got did this week).
This one just flat out collapsed without a fight.
I guess they looked at the numbers, and the relative popularity (or lack thereof) digitally and decided to cut their losses and move on. Probably smart to do it sooner rather than later so they could get another single out of the album before it is too old.
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Post by someguy on Feb 22, 2015 15:29:59 GMT -5
It makes sense to let go of this now, because it probably would have taken 2-3 more weeks to improve on its #16 peak and even then, what would be the point? I'd imagine we'll see an ad either this week or next announcing a new single. I would guess "747" or "Long Stretch Of Love", but I guess "Lie With Me" wouldn't shock me either.
I doubt they'd move on to a new album so quickly after last time, but my ideal situation would be releasing something off of Golden next (which I know will never happen). "Better Off Now That You're Gone", "All For Love" and "And The Radio Played" are much better single options than anything else left on 747.
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Post by layne on Mar 1, 2015 12:31:18 GMT -5
Surprised no new single has been announced yet. However they did tweet this but I don't know if this means LSOL is the next single.
Lady Antebellum @ladyantebellum · Feb 26 played this one for our radio friends at CRS last night. Ya'll want to hear this on radio soon? #LongStretchOfLove
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Post by sabre14 on Mar 1, 2015 12:45:38 GMT -5
Surprised no new single has been announced yet. However they did tweet this but I don't know if this means LSOL is the next single. Lady Antebellum @ladyantebellum · Feb 26 played this one for our radio friends at CRS last night. Ya'll want to hear this on radio soon? #LongStretchOfLove Lady A stated at CRS that they originally wanted "Long Stretch Of Love" to be the lead single but Capitol Nashville insisted in "Bartender". Then they opted for "Freestyle" as the follow up (my goodness did that ever backfire). So I would be pretty surprised if that's not the next single. I also believe (barring it becoming a huge smash in sales and airplay) that it will be the final single. They're already getting some tracks done for the next record (hopefully, not another deluxe reissued thing) which was posted in the upcoming albums thread.
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Post by layne on Mar 1, 2015 12:57:10 GMT -5
Surprised no new single has been announced yet. However they did tweet this but I don't know if this means LSOL is the next single. Lady Antebellum @ladyantebellum · Feb 26 played this one for our radio friends at CRS last night. Ya'll want to hear this on radio soon? #LongStretchOfLove Lady A stated at CRS that they originally wanted "Long Stretch Of Love" to be the lead single but Capitol Nashville insisted in "Bartender". Then they opted for "Freestyle" as the follow up (my goodness did that ever backfire). So I would be pretty surprised if that's not the next single. I also believe (barring it becoming a huge smash in sales and airplay) that it will be the final single. They're already getting some tracks done for the next record (hopefully, not another deluxe reissued thing) which was posted in the upcoming albums thread. No idea how LSOL will perform. They have lost a ton of momentum from freestyle but the same thing happened after Goodbye Town and Compass did well with sales and radio. One of the songwriters of Lie With Me has indicated he was told by Lady A that Lie With Me will be a single so I guess we will just have to see if it happens or not after LSOL.
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Post by sabre14 on Mar 1, 2015 13:04:06 GMT -5
Lady A stated at CRS that they originally wanted "Long Stretch Of Love" to be the lead single but Capitol Nashville insisted in "Bartender". Then they opted for "Freestyle" as the follow up (my goodness did that ever backfire). So I would be pretty surprised if that's not the next single. I also believe (barring it becoming a huge smash in sales and airplay) that it will be the final single. They're already getting some tracks done for the next record (hopefully, not another deluxe reissued thing) which was posted in the upcoming albums thread. No idea how LSOL will perform. They have lost a ton of momentum from freestyle but the same thing happened after Goodbye Town and Compass did well with sales and radio. One of the songwriters of Lie With Me has indicated he was told by Lady A that Lie With Me will be a single so I guess we will just have to see if it happens or not after LSOL. Yeah, many want "Lie With Me" to be a single and I do like that song better than "Long Stretch Of Love" (both are much better than "Freestyle"), but when they said that at a CRS panel, that led me to believe they were preparing to send "Long Stretch Of Love" to radio. Anything can happen though do we'll have to wait for official word. If it is the next single then I still believe it needs to perform well for "Lie With Me" to get released. Things can change so quickly when it comes to single plans in this business so who knows.
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Post by layne on Mar 1, 2015 13:06:53 GMT -5
LSOL is a short upbeat song so I think Radio will like it. Not sure how it will sell. I think with spring/summer coming on it was smart to send LSOL before Lie With Me if in fact they have decided that.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Mar 1, 2015 13:08:51 GMT -5
"Long Stretch of Love" should at least match about how well "Freestyle" did, though I think it'll sell better and that'll help it move up higher on the charts. I'm not familiar with the content of 747, but LSOL isn't too bad and it'll easily be my favorite single from this era if it gets released.
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Post by countrymusic20 on Mar 1, 2015 14:00:02 GMT -5
LSOL should have been the 2nd single. Looking like it might be the 3rd single and hopefully it'll get them back on track again. Then Damn U 17 should be the 4th single IMO. They cut great songs and then F up the single selection and then never end up putting them out. It Ain't Pretty would have been a big single of the last record if they'd released it ... it gets a great fan reaction every time they play it live.
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Post by onebuffalo on Mar 1, 2015 14:41:45 GMT -5
Sixteen singles into their career and Lady Antebellum still has a top 20 streak that is alive and well. After 747 runs its course, it would be time for a greatest hits CD.
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