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Post by Elusive Chanteuse on May 24, 2013 14:20:42 GMT -5
Does anyone know anything on Faith Hill? I was disappointed when American Heart flopped but it was mediocre so I wasn't surprised.
I need her to come back with a stronger material like Illusion. Why are they not releasing this?!
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Post by Elusive Chanteuse on May 24, 2013 14:25:32 GMT -5
KCYY in San Antonio added Taylor Swift's "Red" to their playlist last week and gave it 20 spins. We'll have to see if Big Machine is gearing up to release it as a single, now that "Highway Don't Care" is almost peaking, or if it turns out that KCYY just acted on their own. I hope so! Releasing "Red" to both Country and Pop formats would make the most sense of anything from this era so far. "22" and "HDC" are both peaking. "Red" to carry her through Summer in Country and Top 40 is the only good decision Big Machine could make at this point. I really hope that is the case here. Red would be a wise choice. However, Everything Has Changed is the single worldwide and has got me worried if the label will mess up and release it here in the US in the place of Red. If so, Country format better have a different single like Stay Stay Stay or Treacherous because I'll not accept EHC being played on Country (it'd also flop). |
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Post by churchchoir on May 25, 2013 14:30:35 GMT -5
Does anyone know anything on Faith Hill? I was disappointed when American Heart flopped but it was mediocre so I wasn't surprised.I need her to come back with a stronger material like Illusion. Why are they not releasing this?! I'm confused. Did you think "American Heart" was mediocre or did you like it? If you thought it was mediocre, why were you disappointed that it "flopped" (even though it tied with "Come Home" for Faith's highest peaking single since 2006)? Just trying to understand what you were trying to say. :) |
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Post by Elusive Chanteuse on May 25, 2013 16:05:05 GMT -5
Does anyone know anything on Faith Hill? I was disappointed when American Heart flopped but it was mediocre so I wasn't surprised.I need her to come back with a stronger material like Illusion. Why are they not releasing this?! I'm confused. Did you think "American Heart" was mediocre or did you like it? If you thought it was mediocre, why were you disappointed that it "flopped" (even though it tied with "Come Home" for Faith's highest peaking single since 2006)? Just trying to understand what you were trying to say. :) I'm a stan for Faith Hill. Of course I was going to be disappointed with anything of hers not doing that well, even if the song itself didn't really catch on with me by that much.  And, I would love to go back to the days when her singles did so much better. I mean, even if her singles during the Cry and Fireflies era weren't that MASSIVE (asides from Mississippi Girl), they still did well and nothing Faith currently releases can match up to their peak. I wonder why Tim McGraw is actively releasing material while Faith is just not trying that much. Like, wth? |
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Post by StrongerThanTheTruth on May 25, 2013 19:45:02 GMT -5
Faith Hill actually released a song called "You Have To Believe" on May 14th, 2013 on an album called Everybody Has A Story which was released by Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt and it is also written by a child at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. itunes.apple.com/us/album/everybody-has-a-story/id646990024 |
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Post by carriekins on May 25, 2013 19:53:08 GMT -5
I wonder why Tim McGraw is actively releasing material while Faith is just not trying that much. Like, wth? Because Tim is still in demand, and Faith is just... not. I don't know that she really will be, and I think the performance of her recent single attempts sort of indicates that. I would use LeAnn Rimes as another example. I realize they both still have an avid fanbase, but the general listening public doesn't seem interested. |
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Post by Elusive Chanteuse on May 25, 2013 22:09:39 GMT -5
I wonder why Tim McGraw is actively releasing material while Faith is just not trying that much. Like, wth? Because Tim is still in demand, and Faith is just... not. I don't know that she really will be, and I think the performance of her recent single attempts sort of indicates that. I would use LeAnn Rimes as another example. I realize they both still have an avid fanbase, but the general listening public doesn't seem interested. True. I just wish the general public was still into her. Or that she eventually can make a comeback!  |
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Post by churchchoir on May 25, 2013 22:35:30 GMT -5
Warner does not seem interested in promoting Faith's singles at all. I haven't been following the charts for too long, but both of her recent singles, which barely peaked inside the top 30, seemed like they could have lasted at least a struggle into the top 20 if the label had held on for longer. Perhaps Faith is just at the point in her career where her singles take a while to climb the charts, as Rascal Flatts' and Toby Keith's songs have done lately. I bet a label like Big Machine would have been able to push "Come Home" into the top ten or top fifteen and "American Heart" at least towards #20.
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Post by carriekins on May 25, 2013 22:56:48 GMT -5
^^ It's possible, I guess, that a different label could "push" a song more, but ultimately if a song just isn't connecting they're going to let it go. The label/radio relationship is delicate and the last thing the labels would want to do is annoy the stations to play a song that just isn't cutting it when so much rides on radio airplay. (Obviously there's somewhat of a difference between the going-for-#1 pushes we see and pushing an underwhelming and/or underperforming song for the sake of pushing.) Basically, a label is powerful, yes, but they can only do so much when it comes to songs that don't connect.
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Post by Marv on May 26, 2013 0:01:21 GMT -5
Ms. Hill's faltering country career are her own fault for castigating Music Row and country radio with remarks such as 'country radio won't play my music anymore' and 'I'm going to make the kind of music i want to make'.
Nashville isn't going to take lecturing and or criticism from anyone.
Tim's making some of the best music of his career and country radio is eating it up, as evidenced by the fact that 'One Of These Nights' is the #1 single of the year at Country Aircheck/Mediabase so far, and also spent three weeks atop the Billboard chart.
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Post by .indulgecountry on May 26, 2013 4:43:10 GMT -5
I just get the feeling that Faith Hill doesn't have her priorities set on staging a full comeback, because I believe she could've already released a new album by now and they wouldn't have put so much downtime between her latest single releases, either. Plus, there was all that talk of her re-working the album like 3 or more times, which makes me think maybe she's just not really in a hurry to get it all out there the way Tim has been, which I would chalk a lot of it up to the restraints of his previous label situation.
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Post by someguy on May 26, 2013 8:02:21 GMT -5
I remember reading a few years ago that Tim and Faith only want one of them out touring/promoting/etc. at a time, so that there's always someone home with the kids. It really seems to me that they decided that Tim would be the one to focus moreso on the career, while Faith would primarily be the one at home with the kids. I think that she would have had a much different last 10 years of her career if she had actively pursued her music. I agree that interest has waned in her by the general public, but I do think that comes from her taking herself out of the spotlight for so long. A lot of people who listen to country radio now probably were not listening to the format when she was a major star at radio, and so she is largely unfamiliar to a sizeable portion of the country audience (at least, that's how I see it). I do think that she can have a few more hits, but the material needs to be strong enough, and her heart needs to be 100% in it.
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Post by countrymusic20 on May 26, 2013 9:26:34 GMT -5
Faith's last top 10 Country song was more than 7 years ago - Sunshine and Summertime - but I could maybe still see her having a few more hits. The "maybe" hinges on song selection. When an artist reaches a point in their career where they are big enough and powerful enough to start picking their own songs - that's where most artists start the slow descent down to the end of their radio career. They want to become something that they're not and abandon the material that got them to where they are - and no one will tell them no. There are a few exceptions - Kenny and Tim being 2 - they have both kept a team of people around them for accountability when it comes to songs. Obviously Faith hasn't.
Faith started going off the deep end all the way back in 2002 on the Cry record - really pop material for back then - no top 10 songs. Then there was some major conflict with the label on Fireflies - she cut more than 50 songs and the label wouldn't accept most of them - then she finally gave in and went back in and cut Mississippi Girl, Like We Never Loved At All, and Sunshine and Summertime and the label put the record out - a #1 and 3 more top 10's.
So then back in the "power seat", Faith went off to Atlanta in 2008 to cut a "rock" record with then "hot" rock producer Brendan O'Brien. All of that eventually got trash canned.
Since Fireflies - she's had 4 singles on country radio - "Lost" and "Red Umbrella" - 2 artsy stinkers off her greatest hits package in 2007 that both didn't crack the top 30. Then the very average "Come Home" in 2011 and the even worse "American Heart" in 2012 - neither cracked the top 25.
If Faith wanted to really make a comeback, she would get a new current producer and let that producer and the record label find her songs that will work on 2013 country radio - TRUST them and cut what they tell her to cut - go out and really make an effort promoting the new music - and she could have another string of hits. But as long as she keeps driving her own ship doing the same old same old - she's done at country radio.
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2013 10:40:47 GMT -5
Jo Dee Messina: We r going to sing the song that will be first single off the album for Kathy Lee and Hoda Monday. Wahoo! Such fun
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Post by onebuffalo on May 31, 2013 13:07:53 GMT -5
Jo Dee Messina: We r going to sing the song that will be first single off the album for Kathy Lee and Hoda Monday. Wahoo! Such fun Now, if I see the CD, I will be a believer (cue the Monkees). By the way, Jo Dee Messina, do not have what Kathy Lee and Hoda are having. |
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Post by .indulgecountry on May 31, 2013 15:39:09 GMT -5
Jo Dee Messina: We r going to sing the song that will be first single off the album for Kathy Lee and Hoda Monday. Wahoo! Such fun Now, if I see the CD, I will be a believer (cue the Monkees). By the way, Jo Dee Messina, do not have what Kathy Lee and Hoda are having. 1) She's not with Curb anymore, so gone are the days of her being unable to release new music. 2) Jo Dee Messina struggled with alcoholism in the past, so I doubt that she will. |
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Post by onebuffalo on May 31, 2013 15:43:05 GMT -5
Now, if I see the CD, I will be a believer (cue the Monkees). By the way, Jo Dee Messina, do not have what Kathy Lee and Hoda are having. 1) She's not with Curb anymore, so gone are the days of her being unable to release new music. 2) Jo Dee Messina struggled with alcoholism in the past, so I doubt that she will. 1. I know Jo Dee Messina is no longer with Curb. That said, unless the single does well (which I highly doubt because there really isn't a demand for her right now), I really do not see a new CD actually being released. 2. Thank God her alcoholism is in the past. Good for her. |
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Post by .indulgecountry on May 31, 2013 15:59:07 GMT -5
1) She's not with Curb anymore, so gone are the days of her being unable to release new music. 2) Jo Dee Messina struggled with alcoholism in the past, so I doubt that she will. 1. I know Jo Dee Messina is no longer with Curb. That said, unless the single does well (which I highly doubt because there really isn't a demand for her right now), I really do not see a new CD actually being released. 2. Thank God her alcoholism is in the past. Good for her. She's releasing the music herself now, so I think she'll release it regardless of how the single does (similar to Gretchen Wilson's situation). Without a label backing her, I have no idea how she's going to get a single to go anywhere, but I don't think that it matters in relation to her releasing the record like it would if she was still on Curb. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2013 5:55:56 GMT -5
There are a few new tunes up under the Cool New Music section on AllAccess. Not sure if they will be singles or not, but often times if a song goes up under CNM, it means that the label is planning on releasing it as a single. I'm just gonna list them here for now though--if we get confirmation that any of these tracks is gonna be a single, then we can put up a thread for it. 1) Aaron Lewis - "Granddaddy's Gun" (from the album The Road) [LISTEN] (Blaster Records) 2) Josh Abbott Band - "She Will Be Free" (from the album Small Town Family Dream) [LISTEN] (PDT Records/Atlantic Records/Warner Music Nashville) 3) The Lost Trailers - "Don't Give Up On Me" [LISTEN] (Stokes Tunes) There's also a bunch of Weston Burt tunes up (in addition to "Lucky Sometimes"), but HitShop Records likely made those songs available via Play MPE to get feedback from stations (I think they'll stick with "Lucky Sometimes" for quite a while, though). Anyway, I really like all these tunes. Aaron Lewis continues to release authentic, traditional country music. The JAB tune is very solid so it'll be interesting to see if WMN will indeed try to re-release that album and use SWBF as the single to launch them nationally. The Trailers tune is pretty great too. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2013 12:16:58 GMT -5
I think that, with the right song, Faith could make a massive comeback. However, I don't even think she's that interested in creating that right song, because she's had nearly a decade to get it out. With the 2000s bringing the likes of Carrie, Taylor, and Miranda, and to even lesser extents, Sugarland and Lady Antebellum, I feel like Country listeners have more than accepted a new brand of female voices to become their fix on radio. It's just a shame that we can't seem to get any more or any returns from the older ones to the genre, Faith included.
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Post by flyingsilvereagle on Jun 4, 2013 0:16:42 GMT -5
It looks like Joe Diffie has a new single going out today. Can't believe it, but he is pandering to the country-rap side of the genre now after having 1994 being about him. I would create a thread, but have never done one before. Its called Girl Ridin' Shotgun featuring D-Thrash of Jawga Boyz and is under Bigger Picture. They had an ad in Country Aircheck tonight. Sample here. |
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jun 4, 2013 0:56:48 GMT -5
It looks like Joe Diffie has a new single going out today. Can't believe it, but he is pandering to the country-rap side of the genre now after having 1994 being about him. I would create a thread, but have never done one before. Its called Girl Ridin' Shotgun featuring D-Thrash of Jawga Boyz and is under Bigger Picture. They had an ad in Country Aircheck tonight. Sample here.That song sounds absolutely terrible. The good thing about this one though is that I doubt country radio will do much with it, if anything. |
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Post by Kanenrá:ke on Jun 4, 2013 18:13:43 GMT -5
There's an ad in today's ( Country Aircheck on the right side of the page from ShowDog-Universal. I'm guessing it's not for Joel or Trace Adkins or else it'd say their name, which means it's probably for a new single from somebody on the label. I'm guessing Josh Thompson or Toby cause Josh is apparently close to being done with his new album. Toby meanwhile is rumored to be releasing "Cold Beer Country" so I could see it being for that. I'd be really happy for one of the female's on the label to be getting a proper single but I think they're still trying to build up an audience for Rose Falcon and Krystal Keith, no clue what's going on with Jessie James but I'm guessing they're going to drop her :( |
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Post by rsmatto on Jun 5, 2013 12:19:11 GMT -5
There's an ad in today's ( Country Aircheck on the right side of the page from ShowDog-Universal. I'm guessing it's not for Joel or Trace Adkins or else it'd say their name, which means it's probably for a new single from somebody on the label. I'm guessing Josh Thompson or Toby cause Josh is apparently close to being done with his new album. Toby meanwhile is rumored to be releasing "Cold Beer Country" so I could see it being for that. I'd be really happy for one of the female's on the label to be getting a proper single but I think they're still trying to build up an audience for Rose Falcon and Krystal Keith, no clue what's going on with Jessie James but I'm guessing they're going to drop her :( Jessie James is done w/the label. As for JoDee Messina, providing her Kickstarter is funded, she'll release an album later this year. |
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Post by onebuffalo on Jun 6, 2013 10:25:26 GMT -5
I received an e-mail from Allacess that Toby Keith's new single is called Drinks After Work.
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Post by zaclord 🌈 on Jun 6, 2013 16:53:56 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2013 12:20:29 GMT -5
Darius Rucker had this posted on his FB page today. It doesn't completely confirm "Lost In You" as his next single, but it seems very likely to be. "I got lost in the rhythm of the waves of the ocean. Lost in the sunset too." - "Lost in You" on 'True Believers.'
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Post by flyingsilvereagle on Jun 8, 2013 19:02:38 GMT -5
I'm 99% sure Jake Owen's lead single off his new album will be titled Days of Gold. Written by Neil Mason/Jaren Johnston of The Cadillac Three and was on their debut album. Jake has performed it while he has been opening for Aldean and he performed it in Nashville this week. Performing it in Nashville this week. Not the best audio. I talked to The Cadillac Three today at Fan Fest and they said he had just recorded it and it would be his lead single. The Cadillac Three's Version. |
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Post by echocountry on Jun 10, 2013 15:33:59 GMT -5
Jo Dee is going to release a new full length CD, this fall...She's working hard at it, and getting her fans involved, I just wish they'd release the lead single, already...
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