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Post by sabre14 on Sept 14, 2015 21:14:37 GMT -5
"I Like The Sound Of That" was the fourth most added song on MB this week with 33 adds on impact day.
"Riot" got 36 and "Payback" got 50, for anyone interested.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Sept 15, 2015 23:03:15 GMT -5
Adds right around the level of "Riot" is not too shabby, but I'm expecting this to not perform too well... certainly not as well as their last two singles, sadly. The charts are about to get really crowded and I can just see this possibly being a casualty of that.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2015 1:00:41 GMT -5
This one is actually off to a solid start, mostly because it got block-added at Cumulus already. It appears that all Cumulus stations are on pace to play this anywhere from 15-35 times this week (KHKI in Des Moines is already up to 26 spins just since the beginning of the week).
I'm thinking that we could see a top 50 debut (or at least close to it) on Monday's Billboard chart.
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Post by Kentucky25 on Sept 18, 2015 23:11:38 GMT -5
Could do a real good music video treatment for this song if they feel inclined to, not sure it would help their chart success, but still.
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Post by sabre14 on Sept 20, 2015 20:26:43 GMT -5
"I Like The Sound Of That" debuts at #46 on MB this week.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2015 20:41:19 GMT -5
"I Like The Sound Of That" debuts at #46 on MB this week. That's really impressive given their lack of momentum I know jhomes87 already said that the Cumulus block is helping this out but still very impressive. I heard this song on WITL a few times this week and it's so refreshing to hear as this song actually feels like a great blend of pop and country. I am more curious about what they have in store for their next album.
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Post by sabre14 on Sept 20, 2015 20:58:43 GMT -5
"I Like The Sound Of That" debuts at #46 on MB this week. That's really impressive given their lack of momentum I know jhomes87 already said that the Cumulus block is helping this out but still very impressive. The Cumulus block is not only helping...they're the sole reason this one climbed 24 spots to #46 on MB this week. Most of the Cumulus block already has "I Like The Sound Of That" in medium rotation.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2015 21:03:37 GMT -5
That's really impressive given their lack of momentum I know jhomes87 already said that the Cumulus block is helping this out but still very impressive. The Cumulus block is not only helping...they're the sole reason this one climbed 24 spots to #46 on MB this week. Most of the Cumulus block already has "I Like The Sound Of That" in medium rotation. Well hopefully this can get more adds so it can make the Top 20. One can hope.
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Sept 21, 2015 19:53:51 GMT -5
Debuts at no. 40 on Billboard :o
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Post by sabre14 on Sept 21, 2015 19:57:57 GMT -5
Debuts at no. 40 on Billboard :o "I Like The Sound Of That" has been added and converted in to medium rotation on the Cumulus stations, so a debut at #40 on Billboard was to be expected. This song has gotten 65 adds on MB the past two weeks. This one is already off to a better start than their last single, "Riot."
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Sept 21, 2015 20:00:31 GMT -5
Debuts at no. 40 on Billboard :o "I Like The Sound Of That" has been added on the Cumulus stations oh I was wondering how in the world it debuted so high considering Riot took seven weeks to get to #40
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2015 20:33:56 GMT -5
I'm thinking that Big Machine worked out some sort of pre-release deal here to secure the pre-programmed Cumulus spins/adds, following by a bunch of iHeartMedia adds in the 2nd week. I mean, RF is a big name, but they have little to no momentum and I highly doubt a 4th single would have gotten another 30+ adds the week after its adds date. So I really do think that the Big Machine promo team (and/or RF themselves) were cozying up to some radio programmers the past few weeks.
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Post by someguy on Sept 21, 2015 20:37:01 GMT -5
I'm thinking that Big Machine worked out some sort of pre-release deal here to secure the pre-programmed Cumulus spins/adds, following by a bunch of iHeartMedia adds in the 2nd week. I mean, RF is a big name, but they have little to no momentum and I highly doubt a 4th single would have gotten another 30+ adds the week after its adds date. So I really do think that the Big Machine promo team (and/or RF themselves) were cozying up to some radio programmers the past few weeks. I get the same sense. This really looks like some sort of deal/agreement, rather than a RF fourth single just randomly pulling in all of those adds and debuting in the top 40.
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Post by sabre14 on Sept 21, 2015 20:41:13 GMT -5
I'm thinking that Big Machine worked out some sort of pre-release deal here to secure the pre-programmed Cumulus spins/adds, following by a bunch of iHeartMedia adds in the 2nd week. I mean, RF is a big name, but they have little to no momentum and I highly doubt a 4th single would have gotten another 30+ adds the week after its adds date. So I really do think that the Big Machine promo team (and/or RF themselves) were cozying up to some radio programmers the past few weeks. That's likely why the add date was so long out from when "Riot" left the charts. I think Cumulus wanted to wait until now to accommodate (*snickers*) Big Machine. There's no doubt there was some sort of pre-release deal sorted out.
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Post by someguy on Sept 21, 2015 20:46:32 GMT -5
I wonder if this will have an 'eighth day update' kind of situation, though on a much smaller scale. Probably not, but I'll be interested to see how it progresses next week.
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Post by sabre14 on Sept 21, 2015 20:50:34 GMT -5
I wonder if this will have an 'eighth day update' kind of situation, though on a much smaller scale. Probably not, but I'll be interested to see how it progresses next week. Unlikely. This wasn't a one day thing. All the Cumulus stations added this song and immediately put it in medium rotation. There was no hourly debut. They'll be days where this one has a bad update but there will be no dreaded 8th day hangover.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Sept 22, 2015 9:43:11 GMT -5
I definitely believe something had to have been pre-arranged because there's no way a fourth single from this album would be off to such a start following the performance of the last two singles normally. I won't complain too much about it though, because I'd prefer to not see this single flop, which I thought was a possibility given their low momentum after "Riot."
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Post by sabre14 on Sept 22, 2015 10:01:07 GMT -5
This may become a regular thing with Cumulus, perhaps as a way to at least trade blows with iHeartMedia's hourly deals. "I Like The Sound Of That" was automatically put in medium rotation on most Cumulus owned stations, which immediately spells fishy. It's basically what we saw with "Going Out Like That" and "Ain't No Trucks In Texas", only Rascal Flatts is getting far more help from non-Cumulus stations since RF is still a big name on a major independent label.
This just makes country radio so pre-organized. Like, if this occurs on a regular basis, it just adds another aspect of country programming I hate.
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Post by rsmatto on Sept 22, 2015 10:35:40 GMT -5
Probably will happen.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2015 20:16:23 GMT -5
Looks like they are doing some radio promo for this, and (if I recall correctly), they did the same thing when "Riot" came out. I do remember reading something about RF wanting to work to re-establish themselves with radio not too long ago, so this doesn't surprise me. With the way "Payback" and "Riot" performed, I'm not sure schmoozing to radio would help much, anyway. It seems like they've really backed off on traditional promo appearances lately, and appearing at radio is guaranteed to give them more spins. It's a conniving (but interesting) approach from Big Machine & Rascal Flatts. I think this is easily their best song since "Rewind," and it feels much more authentically RF than the last two singles did. I'm curious to see how this will perform, but seeing that their momentum is down & this is the 4th single, a moderate peak would be a success at this point.
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Post by sabre14 on Sept 28, 2015 22:53:40 GMT -5
According to Billboard's published issue tonight, Big Machine was considering "I Like The Sound Of That" as the second single from Rewind, instead of "Payback."
Oh, how I wish they could have a mulligan...
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Post by sabre14 on Oct 8, 2015 13:22:35 GMT -5
Rascal Flatts will be performing "I Like The Sound Of That" on NBC's The Today show at 8:00 a.m. ET, on Friday (10/9).
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Oct 11, 2015 12:16:33 GMT -5
I like the relaxed sound this has. It has a bit of the feel of their earlier songs, and much less of the bloated excess of their Huff albums. Actually, every single off this album so far seems a lot less bloated.
The only hangup for me is the Justin Timberlake namedrop. The cell phone references are fine in my opinion, since cell phones are so omnipresent anymore, and referencing one in a song is no different than answering machines being in "Austin" or "At the Sound of the Tone" or "Soon". Heck, George Strait put a cell phone in "I Hate Everything" in 2004, Reba did it in the 90s with "Why Haven't I Heard from You", and Collin Raye around the same time with "That's My Story". But Timberlake hasn't had a bonafide hit in a few years now, so the reference to him seems like they just threw in a name-drop to make the song seem "modern", but instead makes it seem out of touch with what's hip with those damn young kids these days, yo. Surprisingly, it's not the first time that a Timberlake name-drop has rubbed me the wrong way; the line "I know Justin sings lead for 'N Sync, so my kids think I'm cool" struck me as similarly awkward in Mark Chesnutt's "I'm a Saint" also in 2004 (for the record, 'N Sync had already been disbanded for two years at that point). It's like name-dropping Jo Dee Messina or Shania Twain to show "hey, I still know what country is". I do like the rest of the song overall, and the way it keeps the "sound" theme going throughout, using various sounds to add life and color to its slightly-derived-from "House Party" theme. "Way too loud on the highway" is a good line in particular.
Overall, it's certainly better than I thought anything with both Meghan Trainor and Shay Mooney as co-writers would be. As I said, Dan + Shay outside "19 You + Me" have an odd calculated "pseudo conversational" tone to them that reminds me so much of WGWGs like Jason Mraz. And all I know about Meghan Trainor, I learned from Todd in the Shadows: "All About That Bass" is a horribly stupid song, and "Dear Future Husband" is basically a curdled mix of "Any Man of Mine" and "God Made Girls". So with that pedigree in mind, I'm surprised that this song has my stamp of approval on it.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Oct 12, 2015 0:35:10 GMT -5
The only hangup for me is the Justin Timberlake namedrop. The cell phone references are fine in my opinion, since cell phones are so omnipresent anymore, and referencing one in a song is no different than answering machines being in "Austin" or "At the Sound of the Tone" or "Soon". Heck, George Strait put a cell phone in "I Hate Everything" in 2004, Reba did it in the 90s with "Why Haven't I Heard from You", and Collin Raye around the same time with "That's My Story". But Timberlake hasn't had a bonafide hit in a few years now, so the reference to him seems like they just threw in a name-drop to make the song seem "modern", but instead makes it seem out of touch with what's hip with those damn young kids these days, yo. Surprisingly, it's not the first time that a Timberlake name-drop has rubbed me the wrong way; the line "I know Justin sings lead for 'N Sync, so my kids think I'm cool" struck me as similarly awkward in Mark Chesnutt's "I'm a Saint" also in 2004 (for the record, 'N Sync had already been disbanded for two years at that point). It's like name-dropping Jo Dee Messina or Shania Twain to show "hey, I still know what country is". I do like the rest of the song overall, and the way it keeps the "sound" theme going throughout, using various sounds to add life and color to its slightly-derived-from "House Party" theme. "Way too loud on the highway" is a good line in particular. Justin Timberlake had several very big hits in the past couple years though: "Suit & Tie" and "Mirrors" in 2013 and "Not a Bad Thing" in 2014 -- NABT was ruling the pop charts and hit #1 a couple weeks after Rewind was released. Literally if there was a pop artist's name to drop in a song at the time this was written (likely sometime in 2013), Justin Timberlake would've been the absolute obvious choice. Sorry, but there was nothing at all bizarre about referencing him at all in this song as he was the top male artist in music when it was written/recorded. Maybe the single itself is technically coming out like a year too late, but to imply Justin Timberlake is no longer a huge name because he hasn't had a hit since last year is really misguided. The comparisons to Shania Twain and Jo Dee Messina don't make a bit of sense as their last major hits were a decade ago and Timberlake had one literally just last year. I'm not sure why the reference bothered you so much here, but it seems like you didn't do much research into "what's hip with those damn young kids these days, yo."
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Oct 12, 2015 10:41:08 GMT -5
That's the issue I had with it, that the release of the single makes the reference seem dated. It wasn't dated then, but here in late 2015, Timberlake hasn't had a big hit in over a year, so the reference seems awkward and dated. It probably wasn't the intent at the time, it just comes across that way now.
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Post by rsmatto on Oct 12, 2015 11:39:15 GMT -5
That's the issue I had with it, that the release of the single makes the reference seem dated. It wasn't dated then, but here in late 2015, Timberlake hasn't had a big hit in over a year, so the reference seems awkward and dated. It probably wasn't the intent at the time, it just comes across that way now. Should they have edited it to say "Sheeran Bumping" or "Derulo Bumping?" just to placate you? Why would Timberlake's lack of chart movement matter? People can and still do listen to a lot of Justin Timberlake music. Not to mention that his stuff gets a fair bit of recurrent play on pop/AC stations.
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 12, 2015 12:04:00 GMT -5
The ironic thing is, Rascal Flatts name-dropped George Strait in "Rewind", and he hadn't had a big hit since about the year before either. Not only are they out of touch with the pop world, they don't even know what's going on in their own genre! I have no idea how any of the listeners ever related to such an obscure reference. No wonder that song didn't hit #1! ( )
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Oct 12, 2015 15:10:05 GMT -5
Fair enough, it was a silly complaint. I still find it a bit jarring in the song.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2015 10:54:22 GMT -5
I usually dislike when artists name-drop fellow artists (or outdated technological devices), but the Timberlake reference is fine here.
I also think it's fair to keep in mind that the period between when a song was written and when it was recorded and placed on an album can be a long wait; I think it was mentioned that the recording for this album started at least a year before the album came out.
I liked when the "Rewind" reference was changed to George Strait, but I don't mind if the lyric remains in its original form if it works in the song.
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Post by bboat11 on Oct 13, 2015 13:06:13 GMT -5
I usually dislike when artists name-drop fellow artists (or outdated technological devices), but the Timberlake reference is fine here. I also think it's fair to keep in mind that the period between when a song was written and when it was recorded and placed on an album can be a long wait; I think it was mentioned that the recording for this album started at least a year before the album came out. I liked when the "Rewind" reference was changed to George Strait, but I don't mind if the lyric remains in its original form if it works in the song. Was the reference changed to George Strait? I thought it was George Strait the whole time! But I could have missed something :)
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