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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2015 22:05:44 GMT -5
Surprised there wasn't a thread for this already. Promotion has only been picked up recently by Thirty Tigers, but "That Look" previously snuck into the Billboard top 60 (at #59) on March 30 (04/11 chart). There's an ad for Aaron in tonight's Country Aircheck Weekly. I don't believe "That Look" was ever given an official adds date but it is being promoted to radio by Thirty Tigers. It's worth nothing that, on the 04/11 chart, the 58-60 songs were RaeLynn's "For A Boy", Aaron's "That Look", and Logan Mize's "Can't Get Away From A Good Time". RaeLynn had 728k, Aaron had 714k, and Logan had 582k. Aaron has a higher audience total now (873k on tonight's Billboard chart) but that's currently not enough to crack the top 60. Logan has almost doubled his audience since late March and he's still on the outside looking in as well. "That Look" is incredibly radio-friendly to me and if Aaron were a bigger name on a bigger label, I'm sure it'd be a big hit. His voice reminds me a bit of Blake Shelton's, especially during the chorus. Aaron made headlines a few weeks back when his album The Underdog (from which "That Look" is the lead single) debuted at #1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart. It was noteworthy as Aaron became the first solo male artist of the Nielsen Music era (1991-present) to debut at #1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart with a self-released and independently distributed/promoted studio album. The Underdog sold 26,000 copies in its 1st week of release for the week of February 16-22. www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6487331/aaron-watson-top-country-albumsThe Underdog is Aaron's 12th studio album. He's been a big name in Texas for the past 15 years and has built up a fan-base by playing a lot of shows every year and also by doing quite well on a lot of Texas country stations. |
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Post by Kentucky25 on May 18, 2015 22:18:34 GMT -5
I think this song is probably my favorite off the album and I agree that it is super radio friendly and could be a major hit if he had a bigger label's support.
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Post by dm2081 on May 18, 2015 22:18:55 GMT -5
Yeah there have been a lot of indie or smaller label songs lately that sound like big hits if they just had better promotion, and this is one of them. This song sounds vintage and a lot like 90's or early 2000's country, but yet doesn't sound too dated and out of place on today's radio. His voice is great on this, and the chorus is great to singalong to. Nice to see it's at least getting some moderate attention.
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Post by sabre14 on May 18, 2015 23:20:01 GMT -5
Thirty Tigers is brand new to the mainstream radio promo game so I don't see this doing much but I agree that he's a great artist and deserves some wider airplay.
His current Texas single is "Freight Train."
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Post by trebor on May 19, 2015 9:00:25 GMT -5
Surprised there wasn't a thread for this already. Promotion has only been picked up recently by Thirty Tigers, but "That Look" previously snuck into the Billboard top 60 (at #59) on March 30 (04/11 chart). There's an ad for Aaron in tonight's Country Aircheck Weekly. I don't believe "That Look" was ever given an official adds date but it is being promoted to radio by Thirty Tigers. It went for adds on 10/27/14 |
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Post by rsmatto on May 19, 2015 10:50:21 GMT -5
Surprised there wasn't a thread for this already. Promotion has only been picked up recently by Thirty Tigers, but "That Look" previously snuck into the Billboard top 60 (at #59) on March 30 (04/11 chart). There's an ad for Aaron in tonight's Country Aircheck Weekly. I don't believe "That Look" was ever given an official adds date but it is being promoted to radio by Thirty Tigers. It went for adds on 10/27/14 Actually, it didn't (for major markets). Back then there was no Thirty Tigers promo team and they didn't even hire someone for that. So, they weren't really promoting it to major market radio stations. AT ALL. Secondary stations smartly picked up on it and it did mildly well there. I Did talk with Aaron a long while back about how incredibly radio friendly this single was and how maybe he'll finally get that nationwide radio hit that seemed so obvious to me years ago. |
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Post by trebor on May 19, 2015 11:50:44 GMT -5
It went for adds on 10/27/14 Actually, it didn't (for major markets). Back then there was no Thirty Tigers promo team and they didn't even hire someone for that. So, they weren't really promoting it to major market radio stations. AT ALL. Secondary stations smartly picked up on it and it did mildly well there. I Did talk with Aaron a long while back about how incredibly radio friendly this single was and how maybe he'll finally get that nationwide radio hit that seemed so obvious to me years ago. Here's the add date announcement from AirCheck Country: Attachment Deleted |
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Post by rsmatto on May 19, 2015 11:52:30 GMT -5
Actually, it didn't (for major markets). Back then there was no Thirty Tigers promo team and they didn't even hire someone for that. So, they weren't really promoting it to major market radio stations. AT ALL. Secondary stations smartly picked up on it and it did mildly well there. I Did talk with Aaron a long while back about how incredibly radio friendly this single was and how maybe he'll finally get that nationwide radio hit that seemed so obvious to me years ago. Here's the add date announcement from AirCheck Country: View AttachmentYes, to secondary radio markets and Texas. |
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Post by trebor on May 19, 2015 12:01:18 GMT -5
Here's the add date announcement from AirCheck Country: Yes, to secondary radio markets and Texas. OK. Thanks for setting this straight. :) I believed that AirCheck Country was major markets, only!  I'm getting the adds for the secondary market(s) from other sources... And in the end, for myself it doesn't make a difference, an add date is an add date, whether the record is being worked at radio or not. Anyways, this is such a great song! |
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Post by rsmatto on May 19, 2015 12:04:46 GMT -5
Yes, to secondary radio markets and Texas. OK. Thanks for setting this straight. :) I believed that AirCheck Country was major markets, only! I'm getting the adds for the secondary market(s) from other sources... And in the end, for myself it doesn't make a difference, an add date is an add date, whether the record is being worked at radio or not. Anyways, this is such a great song! No problem. Wasn't trying to be 'rude' to you and it may come across as that above (the internet/written word can be difficult to see tone) so if you felt that way, I'm sorry about that. |
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Post by trebor on May 19, 2015 12:17:01 GMT -5
OK. Thanks for setting this straight. :) I believed that AirCheck Country was major markets, only! I'm getting the adds for the secondary market(s) from other sources... And in the end, for myself it doesn't make a difference, an add date is an add date, whether the record is being worked at radio or not. Anyways, this is such a great song! No problem. Wasn't trying to be 'rude' to you and it may come across as that above (the internet/written word can be difficult to see tone) so if you felt that way, I'm sorry about that. : No worries. We're cool! You have way more insight and background; I am just the odd consumer at the very end line of the country machinery! ;) And sometimes this buiness is a riddle wrapped up in an enigma! ;) Cheers, mate! R. |
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jul 5, 2015 23:44:20 GMT -5
I've heard this several times on the radio now and I completely love it. This is like a total throwback to the like Clay Walker in the '90s or something. Really, really catchy and the production, vocals, etc. are all so delightfully country. I see this hasn't done a whole lot (not surprised) on the mainstream country charts, so I'm glad that at least one of the radio stations here seems to like it because I'm loving hearing this one on radio. I need to check out his album.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2015 23:52:38 GMT -5
I loved this album when I first listened to it, and well, um, I still love it. The thing is, I like traditional country as much as the pop music that is the new country, so it's always like "Well, Aaron might not doing much, but at least Kelsea is" lol I saw I don't know where, that Wildfire was a single as well. Is this true?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2015 4:13:59 GMT -5
Billboard forgot to send this recurrent last night.
No bullet on July 6, no bullet on July 13, no bullet on July 20.
I love the song and I think it's really radio-friendly, but with Thirty Tigers' radio team still in its infancy, I didn't figure this would do much. It's great that a couple of the big market Texas stations really came to Aaron's support, though.
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Post by gonecountry on Jul 21, 2015 5:37:39 GMT -5
This song is incredible. Album is great. It's sad that such a high quality song can't make it on the airwaves. That said, it is encouraging to see the album do well on the national charts.
If this were sung by Blake, another easy #1.
I personally think Aaron sang the hell out of this song.
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Post by dm2081 on Jul 21, 2015 21:20:05 GMT -5
If this were sung by Blake, another easy #1. Yup, easily. In fact I'd say it would be one of his biggest hits too. This song is a hit waiting to happen IMO. |
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jul 21, 2015 22:32:58 GMT -5
If this were sung by Blake, another easy #1. Yup, easily. In fact I'd say it would be one of his biggest hits too. This song is a hit waiting to happen IMO. It definitely would've been a big hit in the 1990s for sure, regardless of who sang it, though yes, I do believe Blake Shelton certainly could have pulled off this song well enough (though prob not as well as Aaron did) and made it into a hit due to his star power. |
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Post by kirkw on Jul 23, 2015 10:55:45 GMT -5
This record currently getting tons of airplay where I live and rightly so. Very radio friendly. Love it. BTW, Mickey Guyton and Mo Pitney are big stars in these parts as well. I'll let you all guess the country radio environment I live in. Four stations playing country music in this big market. Very competitive where each station is trying to get an edge. In that circumstance, the listener wins and we're hearing records at the bottom of the charts or not charting at all getting medium to heavy airplay, like Aaron Watson's "That Look."
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2015 20:26:40 GMT -5
It's so weird, I was shopping in my local Wal-Mart and all of a sudden this song came on. I was literally shocked, the day before I heard Sara Evan's "Put My Heart Down". Also, that's more times I heard those songs than on my local radio station  |
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jul 28, 2015 21:29:53 GMT -5
It's so weird, I was shopping in my local Wal-Mart and all of a sudden this song came on. I was literally shocked, the day before I heard Sara Evan's "Put My Heart Down". Also, that's more times I heard those songs than on my local radio station  Sometimes stores and places will play the most random stuff on their playlist. I've heard Sara Evans' "Coalmine" several times at Buffalo Wild Wings and "Tonight" at LongHorn Steakhouse a few separate times as well, lol. But hey, I ain't complainin'.  |
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Post by sabre14 on Jul 28, 2015 21:40:13 GMT -5
It's so weird, I was shopping in my local Wal-Mart and all of a sudden this song came on. I was literally shocked, the day before I heard Sara Evan's "Put My Heart Down". Also, that's more times I heard those songs than on my local radio station "Tonight" at LongHorn Steakhouse a few separate times as well, lol. But hey, I ain't complainin'. Long Horn Steakhouse usually plays a wide variety of country songs past and present. I heard "Outside My Window" by Sarah Buxton and "Sara Smile" by Jimmy Wayne there recently, lol. |
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Post by kirkw on Jul 29, 2015 23:55:24 GMT -5
I'm hearing this so much locally, it seems as though it's in heavy rotation. I just think this is a great country record worthy of top-10 and even number 1 status. It's a definite hit if distributed and promoted in the proper way.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2015 0:44:19 GMT -5
I'm hearing this so much locally, it seems as though it's in heavy rotation. I just think this is a great country record worthy of top-10 and even number 1 status. It's a definite hit if distributed and promoted in the proper way. If you're in Texas, then yeah, chances are it might be in high rotation on your local station(s). This is in power rotation at KKBQ Houston (56 plays in the last 7 days), and it's getting some pretty good support in Corpus Christi and El Paso as well as Oklahoma City. KBEQ in Kansas City is also giving this some good spins (31 plays in the last 7 days there). Aaron is an independent artist partnered with Thirty Tigers Records. Thirty Tigers recently added a radio promotion team, and this is the first song that they've charted with. Given that they're so new (their radio promo team, that is), I think they're doing great. I really don't expect this to be a big hit (primarily due to the label situation), but it's nice to see that some stations have supported this. If I were running a radio station I'd be all over this one. I mean, what's not to love? It's a great song and it sounds like an obvious hit. I definitely believe that if Aaron were on a bigger label, or if a more well-known artist had released this song, it'd be an easy #1 hit. Someone like Blake Shelton or Chris Young or Easton Corbin would take this straight to the top of the charts. George or Alan could've taken this to #1 too, if it were 5 years ago of course. |
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jul 30, 2015 1:06:45 GMT -5
^ I knew I'd sure been hearing this a lot!  Thanks for the confirmation there, haha. Too bad more stations aren't jumping on this (and never will), but it's nice that at least a handful have. |
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Post by kirkw on Jul 30, 2015 21:35:39 GMT -5
I don't want to put down the label it's on. I know they're doing the best they can with what resources they have. It's just too bad this great record isn't getting the attention it so deserves. I have to say it's not only my favorite to hear right now but ranks #1 in all of 2015 so far in my mind.
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Aug 1, 2015 9:46:44 GMT -5
I like this! Not expecting this to do well, but I wish all the best to Thirty Tigers to promoting this, and I agree with the above statements that this would've been a hit if Blake Shelton sang it.
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