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Post by skaschep on Oct 10, 2019 13:23:44 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Oct 10, 2019 13:25:09 GMT -5
twitter.com/GlblCtzn/status/1182340489925799942Global Citizen @glblctzn The 2019 event was @msnbc's best-rated festival broadcast yet. glblctzn.me/2IEl4cptwitter.com/sdmoss/status/1182333424125829122Simon Moss @sdmoss Queen + Adam Lambert, Pharrell, Alicia Keys Help Drive Up Global Citizen Festival Ratings glblctzn.co/e/sTtUVwzXF0 #globalcitizen The 2019 event was MSNBC's best-rated festival broadcast yet. Nearly 21 million Global Citizens tuned in to watch the Global Citizen Festival on Sept. 28, 2019, joining the 60,000 Global Citizens gathered in Central Park to celebrate the total impact of our campaign. With 6.3 million views across its broadcast and its livestream, MSNBC reported the festival ratings were their best yet for the event, which has taken place annually in Central Park among other locations for the last seven years. Total MSNBC viewers in 2019 increased by 29% compared to 2018 and it was the third straight year in which the festival increased ratings on MSNBC. More than 6 million viewed a portion of the Festival on MSNBC, and those who did watched for an average of 42 minutes, also a record. YouTube reported 12.5 million viewer impressions, while Twitter had 1.7 million views of its livestream. The 2019 festival led to nearly $1 billion in commitments being made to achieve the Global Goals and end extreme poverty.
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Post by skaschep on Oct 10, 2019 13:44:35 GMT -5
lurleen, thanks for your reply. When I said, "the US is asleep at the wheel" about Adam, I really was referring more to his sales, not to his media coverage. I agree with you that he gets pretty good media coverage here when he's got music coming out or if he's doing a special appearance. etc. But when it comes to sales, it seems to me that his foreign markets get right in there and start buying his music pretty darn quick and in good numbers. Not so much in the US. I know the US competition is much bigger. He has done really well considering the odds. I'd love to see him as high on the US charts as he is in other some countries. His fan base it really international. As cleopatra already mentioned. The #5 position in the UK is in the download chart. Velvet wasn't in the top 100 in the official album chart where streams were added. So that is about the same as in the US where Velvet made it to #7 on the digital albums chart and #148 in the total chart. In Australia the same where Velvet was #5 on the download chart and #72 in the main chart. As to how the US has been doing for Adam? I think they have been doing great! And I can back that up with numbers as well! From the figures from the Rolling Stone chart which is for the US you can get the total streams for Velvet which are 643k streams The total amount of streams on Spotify in that period were almost 1.4 million. Spotify is by far the biggest streaming source, but also the only source (apart from Soundcloud) where we see the numbers of streams. A website called Chartmasters is using a 132:212 ratio (this is backed up with data) to convert Spotify streams to total streams. This means that the total streams for Velvet in the world are estimated to just over 2.2 million. This means that the US did 30% of all the streams for Velvet! Similar numbers I've seen on the YT views for Superpower. In the first few days I noted down that the total views for Superpower were 632,000. The US did 197,000 of those! Which is just above 30% again. The US is his biggest country in views on YT since I've been tracking the numbers for YT again. With almost 20% of worldwide views that is a lot! The next country on the list (Brazil) does about 6.5% of the views. Yes Adam's appeal is worldwide. He's an international superstar, but the US always has been and always will be his biggest market. There is a reason why he has done all these high profile gigs in the US in the last year. His focus is mostly the US and even though that hurts me sometimes it's perfectly understandable. The UK is a good 2nd by the way.
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Post by skaschep on Oct 10, 2019 14:00:11 GMT -5
twitter.com/MichielvMusic/status/1182354703084130304A Bit of Pop Music @michielvmusic #VelvetSideA is exactly the music @adamlambert should be making! He sounds more passionate than ever! Full EP Review: abitofpopmusic.com/2019/10/10/ep-review-adam-lambert-velvet-side-a/ #AdamLambert #VELVET Adam Lambert finds a sound that works for him on VELVET Adam Lambert decided to make some big changes at the start of this year. The pop star was unhappy with the course of his solo career and decided to sign with independent label EMPIRE for a new start. He released a couple of tunes, announced his next solo album titled VELVET and then decided to release this record in two parts. VELVET: Side A has seen the light of day and it features what appears to be exactly the music Lambert himself wants to make. The previously released tracks ‘Feel Something’ with which he kicked off the era, proper first single ‘New Eyes’ and follow up ‘Comin In Hot’ are not part of this Side A, but will hopefully appear on Side B, to be released at a later stage. Instead, Side A opens with the absolutely fierce single ‘Superpower‘, produced by Tommy English. Over rocking guitars and a filthy bass line, Lambert sticks up for discriminated minorities and claims back his superpower. The only right way to open this EP really! Lambert continues to give us sass with the ridiculously catchy ‘Stranger You Are’, a swinging pop song with elements of rock and some irresistible HeWhoCannot amedet action. He proudly sings about how people try to judge him for being different (‘the stranger you are, they wanna keep you locked in the dark’), but how he does not let that stop him from living his successful life. ‘Overglow’, co-written by pop artist MNEK, is another upbeat tune with guitars and a subtle rock vibe, but this time based in a more eighties inspired synth pop sound. Lambert seems to describe the current world as a place where people are connected through their phones all the time, but don’t connect face to face as much anymore. ‘Loverboy’ is another one of Lambert’s sexy bops with a thick bassline running through. The tune has got hooks in all the right places with an infectious post chorus and needless to say Lambert’s delivery is on fire. For ‘Ready To Run’ he ironically slows the pace down slightly. It is a guitar heavy tune with another confident performance by Lambert. It is like he is even more aware of the great reach of his voice and he sounds more passionate than ever. That goes for the only ballad in the collection, ‘Closer To You’, as well. The piano intro shows some similarities to ‘Let It Be’ by The Beatles, but gets is very own identity soon after. Lambert lists all the things he would do to save a relationship after not being there often enough for his partner due to his busy schedule. This is the most vulnerable he sounds on all of the EP and it is one of the most beautiful ballads of his career! VELVET: Side A serves us exactly the Adam Lambert he wants to be, but also exactly what we want to hear. He sounds more passionate, confident and at ease than ever before and he has the tunes to back it up. Bring on Side B!
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Post by skaschep on Oct 10, 2019 14:02:30 GMT -5
twitter.com/uDiscoverMusic/status/1182324692335648769uDiscover Music @udiscovermusic .@queenwillrock + @adamlambert Documentary, ‘The Show Must Go On’, Set For UK Premiere 🎥 10pm Fri 11th Oct @skyarts udiscovermusic.kal.ink/123dc673-ee23-409e-b8b2-b6607350a9cc.html … twitter.com/foofightersnews/status/1182353625302978560Foo Fighters News @foofightersnews Queen + Adam Lambert Documentary, ‘The Show Must Go On’, Set For UK Premiere - uDiscover Music #FooFighters dlvr.it/RFwfbQThe documentary behind-the-scenes activities between Lambert and original Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor following Lambert’s ‘American Idol debut’ in 2009. The UK premiere of the Queen + Adam Lambert documentary, The Show Must Go On will broadcast on Friday 11 October on SKY Arts at 10pm. Previously screened in the US, The Show Must Go On follows the behind-the-scenes activities between Lambert and original Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor since Lambert’s American Idol debut in 2009. The pair first performed together singing ‘We Are the Champions’ on the reality TV show and then decided to work together on a larger scale through several tours, eventually creating the Queen + Adam Lambert brand. The Show Must Go On contains rare concert footage and interviews with Lambert, his parents Leila and Eber, Brian May and Roger Taylor, Simon Cowell, Bohemian Rhapsody star Rami Malek and Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins. The documentary is a two-hour special that will focus on the rise of a collaboration that would lead to “200 sold-out show in arenas and stadiums across the world.”
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Post by lurleene on Oct 10, 2019 14:02:42 GMT -5
I stream almost 24/7 from my paid Spotify subscription. I also stream from my Amazon subscription and playlist (I hope that counts too). I think I had Napster during TOH era too (or maybe it was something else) but I dropped it and switched to Amazon for reasons that I don't remember, lol.
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Post by skaschep on Oct 10, 2019 14:04:06 GMT -5
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Post by girldrummer on Oct 10, 2019 14:19:11 GMT -5
Sizzling, thank you so much for the lyrics to Stranger You Are. The song finally makes sense to me. Sometimes I wish Adam would sing lyrics just a bit more clearly. I really love the message of that song!
And thank you skaschep and Cleopatra. Your explanations just go to show how little I understand all these different charts, streaming, downloading, etc. I just don't keep them straight. It just always seemed to me that that the foreign markets were more supportive than the US, but I guess that is not really true. Good news, actually, that the US does support him well. I just want to hear that he is IS making money with Velvet, enough for a solo tour.
Great to see the ratings for the GC show! I have to believe that QAL had something to do with the higher ratings.
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Post by girldrummer on Oct 10, 2019 14:31:10 GMT -5
Nice interview with John Kearns. I know it was just aired, but I wonder when it was recorded? Adam sounds very healthy and perky and totally himself. Hope he's just about recovered by now. I think we're all going a bit crazy.
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Post by skaschep on Oct 10, 2019 14:37:52 GMT -5
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