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Post by crazychick on Jun 7, 2010 13:05:04 GMT -5
The Truth has cracked the Top 30 yay!
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Post by crazychick on Jun 7, 2010 13:04:06 GMT -5
Nice that the AO RCA mod is being so chatty, but did anyone else find it strange/funny that this person doesn't listen to pop music unless forced to? Isn't listening to all types of music pretty much a job requirement for anyone working at a record label? Especially if you work in A&R, promotion or publicity? And considering they are trying to push Adam to pop radio, shouldn't this person be listening to that format so he knows what is out there and what is about to be released?
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Post by crazychick on Jun 7, 2010 12:56:02 GMT -5
That's an ok update for Pop and a nice one for Hot AC. Now that it's in the Top 30, hopefully it can move up a little faster.
Has 2 adds so far today (1 Hot AC, 1 Pop)
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Post by crazychick on Jun 6, 2010 12:56:18 GMT -5
ok, that's a decent update. It has also cracked the Top 30 on the Hot AC chart today...
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Post by crazychick on Jun 5, 2010 12:22:41 GMT -5
POP Today 85 89 KRIS ALLEN The Truth 81 58 23 0.91
compared to yesterday's update 87 90 KRIS ALLEN The Truth 69 54 15 0.85
It got a pretty good update on Hot AC today #31 (up 2 spots) 477 spins (+24) 76 bullet (+17)
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Post by crazychick on Jun 4, 2010 15:40:53 GMT -5
Brian Mansfield of USA Today reported the sales totals for Kris in his random weekend memo today -- combined the 2 versions of this song sold 7K this past week -- which was a big jump from the previous week (2K). The total sales for the 2 versions of The Truth are now approx 35K
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Post by crazychick on Jun 4, 2010 10:52:37 GMT -5
87 90 KRIS ALLEN The Truth 69 54 15 0.85
Picked up spins put dropped on the chart
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Post by crazychick on Jun 4, 2010 10:51:05 GMT -5
This song is moving up the AC charts, anyway, it's inside the Top 40 on that format. And it has made an appearance on the Pop chart -- it's at #210, with 5 Pop spins. This may be the first time it's shown up on the Pop chart, yes?
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Post by crazychick on Jun 4, 2010 10:48:04 GMT -5
When If this flops, RCA should stop releasing his uptempo stuff. Stick to ballads where he'll do fine. The only thing RCA should do at this point is get him big daddies adds using a small thing called payola. RCA had no problems getting big daddies like WXRK ,KHKS and Z100 adding YLIMD in the same day when BBB started stalling, but now they can't get any big adders for neither this nor the new 2AM Club song they are pushing.. makes me wonder what their radio team is smoking. Maybe so, but Ke$ha also had a mega-smash in Tik-Tok working in her favor -- that song has sold over 3 million copies -- or more than twice a many as WWFM. And she had already proven herself as a concert headliner. So big radio stations would have more motivation to want to push her new single. WWFM is a hit, but not a huge smash hit -- it didn't make Top 10 on the mediabase chart. And 2AM Club is a new act that not a lot of people have heard of. So neither of these acts would have the same sort of leverage that Ke$ha does when trying to get stations to push new singles. Hopefully the start of the tour and the release of the MV will help IIHY get more spins.
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Post by crazychick on Jun 4, 2010 0:07:30 GMT -5
His tour is off to a good start. He got a really good review in the Grand Rapids newspaper for the concert he played there Wednesday night -- a 16-song set that included the live debut of I Need to Know and a cover of Radiohead's Paranoid Android.
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Post by crazychick on Jun 3, 2010 3:47:36 GMT -5
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Post by crazychick on Jun 2, 2010 11:40:08 GMT -5
105 86 KRIS ALLEN The Truth 65 37 28 0.763
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Post by crazychick on Jun 2, 2010 11:07:23 GMT -5
Sales totals are in. Beautiful Day sold approx 95K. That's below what Kris Allen sold the 1st week with No Boundaries last year (approx 134K), but it's not the lowest selling "coronation single" ever by AI champ for 1st week of release-- Jordin sold less than 75K the 1st week with her "coronation single"
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Post by crazychick on Jun 2, 2010 10:51:04 GMT -5
That reply from the radio station is curious. WWFM went recurrent on CHR. And its spins are dropping on Hot AC. The only format it's still climbing the charts on is AC. And the sales are dropping (down 12 percent this week)
Maybe the label is just waiting until the video is ready to be released or until Adam starts his tour to really start pushing IIHY?
It's fun that Canada is so supportive of Adam. IIHY will probably shoot up the charts there!
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Post by crazychick on Jun 2, 2010 10:45:24 GMT -5
Haven't seen the Pop mediabase update yet today. On Hot AC, the song has moved up another spot, to #33.
And this doesn't have anything to do with the charts, but Kris and his wife Katy came up with the idea of selling tour t-shirts that have a pink elephant logo on the front. You can buy one for $33! LOL
Also, at his concert in Madison WI last night, Kris performed a cover of Radiohead's Paranoid Android. I'm hoping video of that will pop up. The concert itself evidently went well - the tweets about it were very enthusiastic
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Post by crazychick on Jun 1, 2010 17:21:57 GMT -5
Adds are in!
got Hot AC adds in L.A., S.F., Dallas, Salt Lake City, Boston and Pittsburgh -- all big markets
got Top 40 adds in Boston, Atlanta (from the station that's been spinning the crap out of Heartless), Salt Lake City, Shreveport and Burlignton, VT
all 12 of these are monitored stations -- 5 of the 12 were automatic adds
pretty good!
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Post by crazychick on Jun 1, 2010 17:20:57 GMT -5
Ends the day with 6 HAC and 6 CHR adds ( including some big markets in both HAC and CHR.) Is today the official adds day on CHR? yup got Hot AC adds in L.A., S.F., Dallas, Salt Lake City, Boston and Pittsburgh -- all big markets got Top 40 adds in Boston, Atlanta (from the station that's been spinning the crap out of Heartless), Salt Lake City, Shreveport and Burlignton, VT all 12 of these are monitored stations -- 5 of the 12 were automatic adds pretty good!
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Post by crazychick on Jun 1, 2010 16:45:19 GMT -5
4 Top 40 adds today (plus 3 Canadian adds) -- waiting to see if there will be any last minute adds before 3 pm Pacific deadline
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Post by crazychick on Jun 1, 2010 16:39:23 GMT -5
Still 2 hours to go before the adds have to be in. But 7 adds so far for The Truth (4 Top 40, 3 Hot AC) -- not bad Which top 40 stations? Or should I just wait until they are all in. ;) Fingers crossed for Kris! Including the Boston station that was added prior to the Memorial Day weekend, 5 Top 40 adds for Kris so far today, with the possibility of a few more to come before the 3 pm Pacific deadline the 5 are: KLAL Little Rock KRUF Shreveport KUDD Salt Lake City WXKS Boston WXXX Burlington, VT also has 3 Hot AC adds so far KDMX Dallas WBMX Boston WLTJ Pittsburgh again, could get more before the deadline. there's the thought that KBIG in L.A. should add it, as it has been spinning it a fair amount
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Post by crazychick on Jun 1, 2010 15:16:28 GMT -5
Still 2 hours to go before the adds have to be in. But 7 adds so far for The Truth (4 Top 40, 3 Hot AC) -- not bad
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Post by crazychick on Jun 1, 2010 9:57:38 GMT -5
I'm looking at the add tracker board and it looks like only a very small percentage of stations have reported so far this morning. Aside from Carrie, none of the ex-Idols are exactly piling up the adds so far today. Kris has 2, Adam zero, Lee zero, Crystal zero. OUCH. But I've noticed that a lot of adds seem to come in right at the 3 p.m. deadline. A song can go from hardly any adds to a bunch in a space of a few minutes right around the reporting deadline. So I'm going to try not to worry too much about this until 3 p.m. :)
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Post by crazychick on Jun 1, 2010 9:51:04 GMT -5
Although he picked up a couple of Canadian adds and one US add late last week, no new adds so far this morning for IIHY. And it dropped back one spot on the pop chart. So it looks like this may be slow going for Adam. Hopefully things will pick up when the video is released. The video definitely helped with WWFM's sales and chart rank so hopefully the same thing will happen with this song.
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Post by crazychick on Jun 1, 2010 0:35:03 GMT -5
Because of the Memorial Day holiday it appears that the adds weren't reported? Or something...because when I looked at the adds chart, no song I checked -- and I was checking songs from people like Katy Perry, B.o.B., Sara Bareilles -- were getting any adds at all. So I'm thinking all the Hot AC adds will be reported Tuesday, along with the Pop adds.
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Post by crazychick on Jun 1, 2010 0:28:18 GMT -5
Get him on some talk shows, radio shows, SNL, TV adds, promo tour, and if it's an extreme case, use payola. Kris Allen flopped because he never had any kind of promo after a few shows. Kris hasn't flopped. His lead single went platinum and hit the Top 10 on 3 separate Billboard charts. His 2nd single is moving up the Pop and Hot AC charts. And he just started his summer tour, which mixes headlining dates with opening for The Fray, Barenaked Ladies, Keith Urban and Maroon5. His album sales aren't great, but he's not a flop. As for Lee, it's way too soon to know how he'll do once he puts out a lead single off his album -- and an actual album. Even if Beautiful Day struggles in terms of radio play and sales, that doesn't necessarily mean he'll be in trouble come 4-5 months from now. Let me add, Kris has had a LOT of promo -- the guy has been working his butt off pretty much non-stop since November playing concerts and doing radio interviews, many of them tied in with radio station promotion. All of these gigs have earned him a boatload of goodwill -- radio station PDs and DJs love him, which in turn make it more likely they'll give his music some spins. He hasn't done a lot of national tv stuff, but he's done a boatload of promotion. Lee will likely follow a similar path. He probably won't get a ton of national tv promo after this first wave of post AI success, and then when he first releases his single/album. But he'll likely end up doing a lot of promotion that has radio tie-ins -- in-studio gigs, Jingle Balls, etc.
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Post by crazychick on Jun 1, 2010 0:22:31 GMT -5
Promote him how? Live performances aren't gonna help this guy. Get him on some talk shows, radio shows, SNL, TV adds, promo tour, and if it's an extreme case, use payola. Kris Allen flopped because he never had any kind of promo after a few shows. Kris hasn't flopped. His lead single went platinum and hit the Top 10 on 3 separate Billboard charts. His 2nd single is moving up the Pop and Hot AC charts. And he just started his summer tour, which mixes headlining dates with opening for The Fray, Barenaked Ladies, Keith Urban and Maroon5. His album sales aren't great, but he's not a flop. As for Lee, it's way too soon to know how he'll do once he puts out a lead single off his album -- and an actual album. Even if Beautiful Day struggles in terms of radio play and sales, that doesn't necessarily mean he'll be in trouble come 4-5 months from now.
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Post by crazychick on May 31, 2010 10:46:31 GMT -5
Although I appreciate that Kris needed the time off to go see his family and just rest a little bit, it probably would have been better for this song if they had filmed the music video when he had a fair amount of time off early in May. Because now he has basically no time available to film one, unless they really squeeze it in during his two days off the middle of June. Meanwhile, the song is up to #34 on the Hot AC chart this morning. Do we know that he is definitely doing a video for this song? Nobody knows. Kris was asked about it but all he said is that they were trying to find some time to film it. It could depend on whether it moves up the chart enough for 19/Jive to think it's worth the expense. MV's cost a lot of money to make.
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Post by crazychick on May 31, 2010 10:42:51 GMT -5
is this top 100 yet on mediabase? no -- it's not getting any spins. neither is Crystal's single. Neither one of them is charting at all
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Post by crazychick on May 31, 2010 10:35:35 GMT -5
So mediabase showed no spins for this song at all through Saturday? Jordin Sparks has the Idol coronation song (which this would be) with the lowest BB ranking at #15. I wonder if this is going to debut lower than that since it never got higher than #3 on iTunes and it's getting no spins?
Not a good start for Lee. Although I'm not really surprised since I figured stations would simply play U2's original version of Beautiful Day over this.
On MJ's they are saying that his old label plans to release more stuff that Lee recorded for them. In fact they have an acoustic cover of a Marilyn Manson song that Lee did available as a free download on their website
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Post by crazychick on May 31, 2010 10:28:44 GMT -5
Although I appreciate that Kris needed the time off to go see his family and just rest a little bit, it probably would have been better for this song if they had filmed the music video when he had a fair amount of time off early in May. Because now he has basically no time available to film one, unless they really squeeze it in during his two days off the middle of June.
Meanwhile, the song is up to #34 on the Hot AC chart this morning.
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