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Post by sabre14 on Nov 18, 2015 23:35:00 GMT -5
If this doesn't go top 20 I will never listen to country radio again and I'm being completely serious. Giving country radio an ultimatum like this, is a recipe for disaster. I could see this going either way. I wouldn't be shocked to see this have a very slow climb to the top 20 but I wouldn't be surprised at all to see this one fly over radio's head either. The start was rather encouraging but since then (the past three weeks), Kip's song has been lost in the shuffle and been relegated to light rotation on nearly every station spinning it. I really feel bad about his situation. I wish we could go back in time and undo "Young Love" and "Dirt Road" ever becoming singles since the momentum high he was on after Up All Night was super promising. "Running For You" is much better than "I'm To Blame" (I love the chorus on RFY), so I would be disappointed if this song wasn't a hit.
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Post by phil1996 on Nov 18, 2015 23:40:10 GMT -5
This guy is ridiculously talented. Saw him in concert the other day...left speechless. Completely blown away by him. He's so passionate. His attitude is just...this dude gets it. Took him soooo long to get Wild Ones out because he kept getting told to record bro country type stuff. He didn't want to sell out like that. He was dedicated to make his own album full of songs that he busted his ass to put out. He did just that and it's the best album I've heard this year, and for that matter in the past 3 years. Went through a lot of hard times and stress between albums. There is no current artist who I respect more than Kip.
Words can't describe how much I want this to hit big, because if it does he's gonna break out even more than he did with Truck/Beer Money/Hey Pretty Girl. This still has potential to be his signature song if radio ever gives it a damn shot.
I know it's only four weeks in, but after driving 5 hours and hearing sh!t like Backroad Song/Gonna/Kiss You In The Morning/Gonna Know We Were Here/Home Alone Tonight nonstop over and over again, I had to voice my displeasure.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2015 23:53:26 GMT -5
This guy is ridiculously talented. Saw him in concert the other day...left speechless. Completely blown away by him. He's so passionate. His attitude is just...this dude gets it. Took him soooo long to get Wild Ones out because he kept getting told to record bro country type stuff. He didn't want to sell out like that. He was dedicated to make his own album full of songs that he busted his ass to put out. He did just that and it's the best album I've heard this year, and for that matter in the past 3 years. Went through a lot of hard times and stress between albums. There is no current artist who I respect more than Kip. Words can't describe how much I want this to hit big, because if it does he's gonna break out even more than he did with Truck/Beer Money/Hey Pretty Girl. This still has potential to be his signature song if radio ever gives it a damn shot. I know it's only four weeks in, but after driving 5 hours and hearing sh!t like Backroad Song/Gonna/Kiss You In The Morning/Gonna Know We Were Here/Home Alone Tonight nonstop over and over again, I had to voice my displeasure. I like his debut album better, but otherwise I'm with you. Kip is incredible, he's the real deal, and he's absolutely one of the best artists in the genre, in my opinion. I just got done listening to "Girl Of The Summer" and "That Was Us" again and damn, they still give me chills. Wild Ones is a superb album. Not a hint of any formulaic "let's come up with a 3-minute mildly catchy inoffensive radio tune" songs on here. For me, it's all about the details, in both the lyrics and the production. When you really listen to this album, you can hear exactly how well-crafted it is. They really took their time and the result is A+ material...a true work of art.
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Post by myeverything on Nov 21, 2015 13:32:39 GMT -5
Awww, I can't tell y'all how happy this makes me to hear this. These are the things that I first saw in Kip 4 years ago and to this day he hasn't changed a bit. Country radio definitely jumped off the bandwagon with him and it's breaking my heart. I just don't understand. They REALLY need to give this one a chance before it's too late.
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Post by phil1996 on Nov 25, 2015 0:10:27 GMT -5
Awww, I can't tell y'all how happy this makes me to hear this. These are the things that I first saw in Kip 4 years ago and to this day he hasn't changed a bit. Country radio definitely jumped off the bandwagon with him and it's breaking my heart. I just don't understand. They REALLY need to give this one a chance before it's too late. It bounced back a bit this week, back up to 44. It'll be a slow climb, but I truly think if it can get top 20, it can get top 10 and possibly even more than that. All this needs IMO is a little exposure. Once people hear it, they're gonna keep wanting more. It's that good.
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Post by myeverything on Nov 25, 2015 22:38:19 GMT -5
Totally agree!! Just gotta figure out how to get it more exposure AKA get country radio to play it :|
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Post by sabre14 on Dec 10, 2015 16:47:45 GMT -5
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Post by myeverything on Dec 13, 2015 14:05:36 GMT -5
About time! haha!
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Post by :) KUFan on Dec 13, 2015 20:16:25 GMT -5
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Post by phil1996 on Dec 13, 2015 20:21:56 GMT -5
Exactly why he's 10 times the artist posers like FGL/Luke/Aldean will ever be. He's a real dude who writes songs about real subjects. Hope "Running For You" sticks around for a while...
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Post by matty005 on Dec 13, 2015 20:35:21 GMT -5
Exactly why he's 10 times the artist posers like FGL/Luke/Aldean will ever be. He's a real dude who writes songs about real subjects. Hope "Running For You" sticks around for a while... After David Nail, Kip Moore is my favorite vocalist currently. But I don't understand why you think the above are posers. It has been said time and time again that FGL likes to party. So they write songs about partying. Yeah that might not be your cup of tea, but I don't see at all how it's, "posing." If anything, it seems more genuine.
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Post by :) KUFan on Dec 14, 2015 1:14:20 GMT -5
Exactly why he's 10 times the artist posers like FGL/Luke/Aldean will ever be. He's a real dude who writes songs about real subjects. Hope "Running For You" sticks around for a while... After David Nail, Kip Moore is my favorite vocalist currently. But I don't understand why you think the above are posers. It has been said time and time again that FGL likes to party. So they write songs about partying. Yeah that might not be your cup of tea, but I don't see at all how it's, "posing." If anything, it seems more genuine. I honestly just posted the interview because I respect him as an artist but I just can't get into his music at all. His latest album is rock with really no elements of country in it and it just is too gritty in my opinion. His voice is suited for rock honestly and I'm glad he found success with his first album. Something I found interesting in the interview is when he mentioned wanting to make each record sound different so I'm anxious to hear his next album and the direction he goes. He does have a great live show because I saw him opening for Dierks this summer. I guess that's really an opening act show but he's a ball of energy on stage.
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Post by cardinalr on Dec 26, 2015 9:25:54 GMT -5
Heard this several times over the last 3-5 days in Minneapolis so hopefully it's picking up some steam...
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Post by phil1996 on Dec 26, 2015 10:57:57 GMT -5
^ Had a nice move to the top 40 this week. Hopefully you're right.
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Post by myeverything on Dec 31, 2015 12:35:59 GMT -5
Top 40 ... (finally?!) and hopefully onward from here. Once the charts get back to normal, we're really gonna want this song moving.....
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Post by phil1996 on Dec 31, 2015 18:49:11 GMT -5
Top 40 ... (finally?!) and hopefully onward from here. Once the charts get back to normal, we're really gonna want this song moving..... It's moved up 3 both this past week and the week before. Not a chart expert, but seems to be doing much better now.
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Post by sabre14 on Dec 31, 2015 19:48:43 GMT -5
This one's been gaining some steady audience the past few days and I do think that "Running For You" is hitting a little bit of a stride here. Kip's song could still die in the top 40 though; there's a long way to go to get a hit out of this one.
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Post by myeverything on Jan 6, 2016 10:55:00 GMT -5
Ugh, well crossing my fingers for the best here. We should know more soon. If this stalls out all the way in the top 40, I'm abandoning country radio all together, lol.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2016 2:54:58 GMT -5
This one still has a chance to take off. It's not exactly blazing a trail, but #37 on Billboard after 11 weeks isn't too bad at all. What Kip needs is to get into the top 40 on Mediabase (I believe he was #41 on Sunday) and get countdown spins. This song isn't selling very well but I think that a lot of people simply aren't aware that it's a single, because it's still not getting a ton of airplay. I believe that countdown spins and a music video could help get this song on more people's radars, and if it can get into the top 30, then perhaps it could take off, or at least start climbing more steadily. Speaking of a music video...
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Post by g8erboi on Jan 7, 2016 8:36:38 GMT -5
This is a fine song, but his voice sounds more grating than it usually does, and I would assume it would be a little difficult for the average listener to understand the lyrics. I feel like this song would be huge if it were sung by McGraw, Keith Urban, or even Randy Houser.
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Post by sabre14 on Jan 10, 2016 17:12:46 GMT -5
With "Gonna" and "Already Callin' You Mine" going recurrent, "Running For You" finally cracks the Mediabase top 40 and will benefit from countdown spins starting next weekend.
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Post by myeverything on Jan 12, 2016 10:29:08 GMT -5
This is a fine song, but his voice sounds more grating than it usually does, and I would assume it would be a little difficult for the average listener to understand the lyrics. I feel like this song would be huge if it were sung by McGraw, Keith Urban, or even Randy Houser. That's one of Kip's best, most unique qualities if you ask me (and a lot of other people I'm sure)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2016 2:45:53 GMT -5
This one's still not selling, and I'm starting to get a bit concerned. I like the song a lot, but I was never as convinced as some of you are that this would be a surefire smash hit. Wild Ones is one of my favorite albums in quite some time, but with that said, "Girl Of The Summer" strikes me as the only obvious radio hit. I think if that one would have been a hit, then anything that followed it would have been a hit, too. Kip just needs one big hit to get people interested in him again. I don't know when Kip recorded "Girl Of The Summer", but if I find out it was recorded and ready to go in May 2015 or earlier, I'm gonna be really irked at UMG for not releasing it first, instead of "I'm To Blame". "Girl Of The Summer" would have been the perfect lead single.
But anyway, since they haven't gone with "Girl Of The Summer" yet, I'll just have to hope that "Running For You" becomes the hit Kip needs. It's not doing too bad at radio, but it's one of only 6 songs in the Billboard top 50 that isn't even in the top 1500 on the iTunes all-genre chart. It's not in the top 200 country songs on iTunes, either. The only other song with a similar amount of airplay that isn't on the iTunes charts yet is Canaan Smith's "Hole In A Bottle". Drake White, Lindsay Ell, Lauren Alaina, and Craig Morgan are the others that aren't on the iTunes charts yet, but it's more acceptable for them, given that their songs have such minimal airplay. Meanwhile Dylan Scott is almost top 50 on the iTunes country chart ("Crazy For Me" has the advantage of being substantially aided by SiriusXM airplay), and Charles Kelley's "The Driver" is almost top 50, too (no doubt boosted by his album being up for pre-order on iTunes). Eric Paslay's "High Class" is in the top 100, and Easton Corbin, Justin Moore, William Michael Morgan, Little Big Town, Chris Janson, Scotty McCreery, Hank Williams Jr, and Big & Rich are all well inside the top 200.
Maren Morris was at #22 on the iTunes country chart this evening (no surprise, due to OTV) and of course Chris Young & Cassadee Pope are already selling quite well with "Think Of You" (top 80 already).
I just feel like most people don't know "Running For You" is even a single. Hopefully the upcoming video can drum up a bit more interest.
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Post by myeverything on Jan 19, 2016 17:40:22 GMT -5
Oh this makes me soooooo mad. Pretty sure it was one of the newer additions to the album jhomes, but still. I won't get into details, but I am SO fed up with the way his team does things.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2016 2:08:49 GMT -5
Oh this makes me soooooo mad. Pretty sure it was one of the newer additions to the album jhomes, but still. I won't get into details, but I am SO fed up with the way his team does things. I don't think his team is to blame at all. I mean, what are they supposed to do? There's only so much a label can do to promote a single to radio. I say this all the time, but there are probably at least 100 artists signed to mainstream labels, and so if most of them have music out at the same time, a lot of those singles are never gonna go anywhere on the charts. Radio can only play a certain amount of songs at a time, so for every song that becomes a big hit, there's probably 1-2 songs that barely make the top 40, or don't get there at all. It happens. And Kip has zero momentum right now. If you want to blame somebody, I'd suggest country music consumers. Why do I say that? Because "Running For You" is one of the worst-selling singles out there right now...people aren't buying it, and that's not exactly an incentive for radio to play it. Meanwhile, "lesser" stars like Eric Paslay, Dylan Scott, Chris Lane, William Michael Morgan, and others are out-selling Kip. It's not all about sales, of course, but if you've got a song that fans are paying for and then another song that nobody's buying, radio is more likely to play the songs that are selling. And then of course those songs will sell even more due to increased airplay. The people that bought "Somethin' 'Bout A Truck", "Beer Money", and "Hey Pretty Girl"...most of them aren't showing up now for Kip. The releases of "Young Love", "Dirt Road", and "I'm To Blame" killed all of Kip's momentum, too, but in retrospect it's easy to say that those were poor single choices (I thought they were poor single choices from the moment I heard each of them, but that's besides the point). At the time, the label (and probably Kip too) thought they were good single choices, otherwise they never would have released them in the first place. So it's hard to assign any blame there. Radio isn't playing the song because there's little to no interest in it -- the fans aren't going out and downloading it. Wild Ones had strong first week sales (the result of Kip's core fan-base buying it immediately upon release) but since then it's fallen completely off the radar. MCA has to give radio a reason to play this one more than they've been playing it so far. And I'm sure the label is trying to present the situation as best as they can -- to "sell" this song to radio programmers -- but they really don't have a lot to work with here. They can take Kip out to talk with PD's, they can give away free concert tickets and stuff like that...but all of that stuff (especially the travelling from station to station) can be really expensive, and if the label doesn't think they're gonna get their money back, then they're not very likely to commit to any sort of radio tour (even if it's just a handful of stations) in the first place. It's not completely hopeless, but right now Kip and "Running For You" just don't really have any momentum, and so it's only natural that radio is gonna be really slow to jump on board with this one.
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Post by phil1996 on Feb 4, 2016 12:10:16 GMT -5
As much as I LOVE this song, I think they may have made a mistake not going with "Girl Of The Summer". That's such an obvious smash. And if this one stalls in the 30's I'm not sure there's gonna be another single from the album.
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Post by sabre14 on Feb 4, 2016 13:18:53 GMT -5
As much as I LOVE this song, I think they may have made a mistake not going with "Girl Of The Summer". That's such an obvious smash. And if this one stalls in the 30's I'm not sure there's gonna be another single from the album. "Running For You" is showing signs of life as its gained 115 spins and 500k in audience this week and has gained 200 spins and 1.1 million in audience over the past 10 days. The problem is the sales -- it's selling horribly thus far. I think this can become a top 20 single in the end but the sales are just not there for this one, which of course is aided by the low, slow airplay. The video should be dropping very soon, so hopefully that will help a little. Getting in the top 40 on Mediabase was a big help since Kip got some of those countdown spins.
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Post by dm2081 on Feb 4, 2016 13:48:13 GMT -5
As much as I LOVE this song, I think they may have made a mistake not going with "Girl Of The Summer". That's such an obvious smash. And if this one stalls in the 30's I'm not sure there's gonna be another single from the album. "Running For You" is showing signs of life as its gained 115 spins and 500k in audience this week and has gained 200 spins and 1.1 million in audience over the past 10 days. The problem is the sales -- it's selling horribly thus far. I think this can become a top 20 single in the end but the sales are just not there for this one, which of course is aided by the low, slow airplay. The video should be dropping very soon, so hopefully that will help a little. Getting in the top 40 on Mediabase was a big help since Kip got some of those countdown spins. I don't know how much blame can be placed on the low airplay for this - literally every song around it is selling considerably better with similar amounts of airplay. This just doesn't seem to be eliciting any type of passion or response, and thus radio is reacting the same.
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Post by sabre14 on Feb 4, 2016 13:57:44 GMT -5
"Running For You" is showing signs of life as its gained 115 spins and 500k in audience this week and has gained 200 spins and 1.1 million in audience over the past 10 days. The problem is the sales -- it's selling horribly thus far. I think this can become a top 20 single in the end but the sales are just not there for this one, which of course is aided by the low, slow airplay. The video should be dropping very soon, so hopefully that will help a little. Getting in the top 40 on Mediabase was a big help since Kip got some of those countdown spins. I don't know how much blame can be placed on the low airplay for this - literally every song around it is selling considerably better with similar amounts of airplay. This just doesn't seem to be eliciting any type of passion or response, and thus radio is reacting the same. I think the low airplay aids in low sales, not it's the be all end of all of low sales, which I never said. There's plenty of folks who have no idea that Kip Moore has a new single at radio called "Running For You." It's not getting enough passion from listeners to buy it, which I agree with.
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Post by dm2081 on Feb 4, 2016 14:11:05 GMT -5
I don't know how much blame can be placed on the low airplay for this - literally every song around it is selling considerably better with similar amounts of airplay. This just doesn't seem to be eliciting any type of passion or response, and thus radio is reacting the same. I think the low airplay aids in low sales, not it's the be all end of all of low sales, which I never said. There's plenty of folks who have no idea that Kip Moore has a new single at radio called "Running For You." It's not getting enough passion from listeners to buy it, which I agree with. I understand what you're saying, but plenty of people haven't heard Justin Moore's new one yet, Easton's song has only been out a little longer, Big & Rich's new one just came out and it has less airplay, and Dylan Scott is a new artist most people aren't even familiar with yet and they're all selling considerable better with either similar or less airplay. They could all play the "low airplay" card as well, but they're still selling better than Kip. Anyways, Kip is definitely a perfect example of how important it is to pick the right songs for radio when you are just beginning your career. I respect his independence and decision to do things his own way, but they've whiffed multiple times choosing a single, and it has ended up stunting his career.
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