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Post by phil1996 on Mar 24, 2014 10:43:57 GMT -5
 Spotify is streaming the album. play.spotify.com/album/0uQnXXbHhO6BQ1vFcwMwT81. ‘Space’ 2. ‘Buzz Back Girl’ 3. ‘Drink to That All Night’ 4. ‘I Can’t Give in Anymore’ 5. ‘We Know How to Rock’ 6. ‘Come On, Come On’ 7. ‘Lucky #7′ 8. ‘Donkey’ 9. ‘Day Drinkin’ 10. ‘The Real Thing’ 11. ‘Beach Baby’ 12. ‘Refill’ 13. ‘She’s Fine’ (Feat. Colt Ford) |
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Post by layne on Mar 24, 2014 12:23:45 GMT -5
Let me be the first and probably only one to say I really like this Album after just one listen.
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Post by Markus Meyer on Mar 24, 2014 12:36:04 GMT -5
Can't listen right now, but my expectations are VERY low.
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Post by phil1996 on Mar 24, 2014 12:52:24 GMT -5
It's not as good as his first two awesome albums were, but still solid. Not as bad as I thought it would be. "Space", "Buzz Back Baby", "Day Drinkin" and "Beach Baby" are all quite good, and my favorite on the album is Lucky #7... The opening guitar riffs to that song are STELLAR. Also... The 34-year-old singer predicts that his record label will want to keep riding this audacious wave by releasing the slapstick "Donkey" as the project’s next single, and that’s something he admits scares him Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jerrod-niemann-on-his-innovative-and-potentially-polarizing-new-lp-20140324#ixzz2wu7Zhgfp |
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Post by countryfan4life on Mar 24, 2014 14:04:09 GMT -5
It's not as good as his first two awesome albums were, but still solid. Not as bad as I thought it would be. "Space", "Buzz Back Baby", "Day Drinkin" and "Beach Baby" are all quite good, and my favorite on the album is Lucky #7... The opening guitar riffs to that song are STELLAR. Also... The 34-year-old singer predicts that his record label will want to keep riding this audacious wave by releasing the slapstick "Donkey" as the project’s next single, and that’s something he admits scares him Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jerrod-niemann-on-his-innovative-and-potentially-polarizing-new-lp-20140324#ixzz2wu7Zhgfp
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Post by Kentucky25 on Mar 24, 2014 20:22:28 GMT -5
"Space", "Day Drinkin'", "Lucky #7", and "Refill" are the stand-outs to me.
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Post by ryanroberts on Mar 25, 2014 22:00:39 GMT -5
You know what.. I'll say that I was worried about this record especially after the first single ( although its grown on me), but this isn't a bad album. I'll repeat some things I've said in previous Jerrod Niemann threads. He is weird in a good way. To me also as crazy as it sounds, but Jerrod does traditional country in overdrive if that makes sense. Kinda like older Big & Rich and even Brad Paisley. As far as this album goes, Love Space, Lucky #7, Refill, and Donkey. Do like the sounds of We Know How To Rock and She's Fine. Overall a fun listen!
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Post by Uncle Lumpy on Mar 26, 2014 15:08:18 GMT -5
I liked his debut album well enough but thought the follow up was pretty bad honestly. But nothing could have prepared me for stumbling over "Donkey" this morning. I suddenly felt the urge to go out in the yard and scrape something really nasty off the bottom of my shoe. I just thought the first single was bad. But this "song" is just insulting. Nothing redeeming, nothing artistic. Just ridiculous rhymes that an 8 year old could write. I'm over supporting artist's that release drival like this. Mr. Niemann, you are dead to me.
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Post by sabre14 on Mar 26, 2014 15:54:10 GMT -5
Finally got a chance to listen to this today all the way through. I must say it, like others it wasn't as scary to hear as I thought it would be. That being said there were tracks I didn't care for like "We Know How To Rock", Buzz Back Girl" and "She's Fine" (Sorry. Anything with Colt Ford is just not going to be up my alley for obvious reasons). Then there's the awful with "Drink To That All Night". And finally there's the "How can any song this atrocious make any album" with "Donkey". That song is flat out unlistenable. As much as I hate "Drink To That", at least the chorus is somewhat tolerable. "Donkey" I can honestly say start to finish is abominable. Nothing redeemable about it whatsoever. I still say it's a song that's strange for the sake of being strange. The song is already getting spun at The Highway and Phil a few posts up made reference to it possibly being a single. I like Jerrod and he has always come off sincere, funny, and down to earth but if "Donkey's" a single, it better fail miserably.
Now there were a few tracks I thought were quite good and single worthy. Th one's I enjoyed the most were "Space", "I Can't Give In Anymore" and "Refill". Others that were pretty good were "Day Drinkin', "Beach Baby", "Come On, Come On", and "Lucky #7. The latter sounds a bit overproduced but is still a possible single. The main candidates for singles are "Space", "Come On, Come On", "I Can't Give In Anymore", "Refill" and even "Beach Baby" which I feel could be successful at radio. It's clear with all of Jerrod's albums he has a vision to be different and set himself apart from other mainstream acts today. I just wish that he would not go for the recent trend of today country's with IMO, crap such as "Drink To That All Night" and "Donkey". Overall, It's nowhere near my favorite album so far, but better than I imagined it would be.
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Post by onebuffalo on Apr 3, 2014 9:55:19 GMT -5
Debuts at #3 country, #18 top 200 after 14,000 copies were sold. Congratulations, Jerrod Niemann!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2014 16:29:48 GMT -5
Sales are pretty low for this one. Most other new artists (and this is Jerrod's 3rd major label release already) are able to do a good bit better than 14k with a big hit.
It seems to me that the likes of Brett Eldredge, Kip Moore, Cole Swindell, Thomas Rhett, Jon Pardi, Tyler Farr, Kacey Musgraves, Cassadee Pope, Danielle Bradbery, Dustin Lynch, and Randy Houser all did 20k or quite a bit better with their recent albums.
HITS has Josh Thompson doing about 11k this week and his lead single barely scraped the top 30. Dan + Shay could do 30k.
Jerrod's discography has been strange. From the success of "Lover, Lover" and "What Do You Want", Judge Jerrod & The Hung Jury went on to sell about 400k...but then Free The Music was probably the biggest flop of a major label album in the last 5-10 years. I don't even know if it's sold more than 20k total. High Noon will do better than that but it's still a far cry from his first Arista release, even though "Drink To That All Night" has finally brought him back to the upper reaches of the airplay chart.
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Post by churchchoir on Apr 3, 2014 23:14:52 GMT -5
^What's also interesting is that the single "Drink to That All Night" was selling really well for its entire chart run, then all of a sudden just last week sales started to decline and the song has spent most of this week lingering barely inside the top 100 on iTunes (80s and 90s), which is below average for a #3 song.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2014 2:07:31 GMT -5
^What's also interesting is that the single "Drink to That All Night" was selling really well for its entire chart run, then all of a sudden just last week sales started to decline and the song has spent most of this week lingering barely inside the top 100 on iTunes (80s and 90s), which is below average for a #3 song. Are you sure you're looking at the right song? I wasn't paying attention earlier in the week but I check iTunes positions once a week and I've got DTTAN higher now than it was a week ago. It's #8 on the country iTunes chart, which is very good. It's ahead of Blake (#10) and Randy Houser (#23). Eric is at #7 and Keith Urban is #5. Maybe Jerrod's song had a blip when the album came out but otherwise it's been a pretty strong seller and has now gone Gold. |
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Post by .indulgecountry on Apr 4, 2014 2:23:17 GMT -5
"Drink to That All Night" is the definition for me of a song that would connect with the digital-downloading crowd eating up all the bro-country fad, but not be a song that would translate to album sales, so I'm not really that surprised by the low sales for the album in spite of finding an audience to buy up the lead single.
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Post by churchchoir on Apr 4, 2014 10:59:54 GMT -5
^What's also interesting is that the single "Drink to That All Night" was selling really well for its entire chart run, then all of a sudden just last week sales started to decline and the song has spent most of this week lingering barely inside the top 100 on iTunes (80s and 90s), which is below average for a #3 song. Are you sure you're looking at the right song? I wasn't paying attention earlier in the week but I check iTunes positions once a week and I've got DTTAN higher now than it was a week ago. It's #8 on the country iTunes chart, which is very good. It's ahead of Blake (#10) and Randy Houser (#23). Eric is at #7 and Keith Urban is #5. Maybe Jerrod's song had a blip when the album came out but otherwise it's been a pretty strong seller and has now gone Gold. It is doing fine now. There seemed to be a blip earlier in the week, according to the iTunes column of the Kworb chart, which is all I ever look at usually, but now it's back into the 40s. As you said, this fluctuation earlier in the week was probably due to the album's release. :) |
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Post by someguy on Apr 12, 2014 0:27:32 GMT -5
Free The Music was probably the biggest flop of a major label album in the last 5-10 years. I don't even know if it's sold more than 20k total. Wow I didn't realize that it sold that poorly. That is a huge flop...the label must have lost a lot of money on that one. High Noon will easily pass it, probably in its second week of release. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2014 0:56:47 GMT -5
Free The Music was probably the biggest flop of a major label album in the last 5-10 years. I don't even know if it's sold more than 20k total. Wow I didn't realize that it sold that poorly. That is a huge flop...the label must have lost a lot of money on that one. High Noon will easily pass it, probably in its second week of release. I think his last album sold 8k in its first month of release, and that's the total that Wikipedia lists for it, although that total hasn't been updated since October 2012 when the album was released. Still, Free The Music never got any higher than #62 on the Billboard 200, so I can't imagine that it sold much more than 20-30k total, especially since it never really produced any big hits. |
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Post by Markus Meyer on Apr 12, 2014 18:24:29 GMT -5
I picked this up the other day and I must say, it's not half bad. Obviously there were duds, specifically "Drink To That All Night", "Donkey", and "She's Fine" but the rest is actually pretty good.
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