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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2012 13:02:21 GMT -5
@maggy_97: Interview with Justin Hawkins (in German) mentions Adam &'Music Again'&says Adam is a phenomenal singer t.co/drDr0Ywt @maggy_97: He says MA was originally planned as a The Darkness song, but he wrote another song for Adam that was also recorded Translating the Adam-bit of the interview properly, since it's so sweet and also includes some new info: Q: Justin, in the meantime you've also written songs for Adam Lambert and Meatloaf. How did that come about?
Justin: In the last few years I was often in Los Angeles, writing for others. For the Adam-Lambert-thing I stayed in London. Actually, I had hoped "Music Again" could become a song for The Darkness. But then they made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Anyway, really every songwriter in L.A. wanted to get a song on Lambert's album. Simply because he's so talented, and one realized right away that the guy could really sing. Have you ever heard him singing "A Change Is Gonna Come?" I just thought: Wow, the guy is unbelievable! So I wrote another song for him, that he also recorded. And then there was also a third song, that Adam Lambert and Meatloaf were fighting over. I couldn't believe it myself. !!! musik.brash.de/2012/08/21/the-darkness-interview/ETA: I assume the second recorded song is Suburban Decay, but I wonder what the Meatloaf song was? ??? Thanks for doing this Midwifespal! I would have totally missed it hadn't you done it. Precious words and info. And thanks Gelly for posting, of course |
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Post by itskarma on Aug 24, 2012 13:02:31 GMT -5
After reading that YouTube influences radio play .. please see Adamtopia numbers thread, I will keep on keeping on with the listens. Is this Love 35,436 not counting the thousands that watched on the 40 thing that was taken down. Never Close Our Eyes 7,204,625 Better Than I Know Myself 9,322,629 Next mission: Get BTIKM to 10 million. That's a milestone. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2012 13:04:42 GMT -5
I posted this article from the NY Times in the Numbers thread yesterday, but I thought maybe I should post it here as well so others can see it. Mods, if this doesn't belong in News, please delete it. I think this is an interesting article from the NY Times about the importance of social media and YouTube in creating hits. It also talks about the continued importance of radio in generating sales. www.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/busine....dit_th_20120822Based on this article, it is clear that: - Music videos are critical -- more and more people listen to music on YouTube. - Online "buzz" via social media and YouTube views are important ways to convince radio to play an artist's songs. - Radio is still needed to boost songs to an awareness level high enough to generate big (1 million+) sales. Excerpt: "For decades, the song of the summer would emerge each year following a pattern as predictable as the beach tides. Pop radio would get it rolling before school let out, and soon the song — inevitably one with a big, playful beat and an irresistible hook — would blare from car stereos everywhere. But the success of this summer’s hit, Carly Rae Jepsen’s cheerfully flirty “Call Me Maybe,” shows how much the hitmaking machine, as well as the music industry itself, has been upended by social media.
Only a year ago, the charts were dominated by stars who had come out of the old machine of radio and major-label promotion: Katy Perry, Rihanna, Adele, Maroon 5. This year’s biggest hits — “Call Me Maybe,” Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” and Fun.’s “We Are Young” — started in left field and were helped along by YouTube and Twitter before coming to the mainstream media.
Nearly two-thirds of teenagers listen to music on YouTube, more than any other medium, Nielsen said last week. Ms. Jepsen said in a recent interview that “the viral videos are what’s been the driving force for this. It was insane to see that the music could spread that far because of the Internet. It’s a cool thing. It changes the game completely.”
YouTube, Twitter and Facebook are now record labels’ textbook tools for starting a marketing campaign, and if the numbers there are big enough, they can be used in pitches to radio and television programmers.
The song’s [Call me Maybe] trajectory also demonstrates the continuing power of radio, which record executives say is still essential to turn any song — no matter how much online buzz it has — into a genuine smash. In March and April, when “Call Me Maybe” was getting tens of millions of views on YouTube, it still had relatively low radio play — fewer than 5,000 spins a week on Top 40 stations in the United States, according to Nielsen. It hit No. 1 on iTunes on May 27, but took almost a month to reach No. 1 on Billboard’s singles chart, which counts sales as well as airplay and streaming services. By then it had about 20,000 spins a week on multiple radio formats.
'There’s not a million-seller out there that doesn’t have radio play,” said Jay Frank, chief executive of the label DigSin. “But its first million generally doesn’t come from radio.' " |
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Post by nica575 on Aug 24, 2012 13:09:28 GMT -5
ITA. Bottom line, he's done a lot of single releases and if he was talking ONLY about the single, that's an easy clarification to make. If anyone insinuated otherwise, he could easily say, "No, I mean the single launch." And leave it at that. By listening to the interview and hearing him say, "Believe me, I want to tell you and certain promises ..." says to me he is bound to things outside of his control. And note that these are all foregone conclusions. This is not a man who has "no idea" what he's doing two, three and four weeks from now – with the launch of his crucial third single tangled up in the mix. If he truly didn't know, he'd be ready to blow a gasket by now, but his joyous and serene and cool as a cucumber. I know Adam is extremely good at putting on a calm emotional front when underneath he's in turmoil, but I don't think he could do all these interviews that consistently without letting on that he's a little confused or overwhelmed by what he doesn't know. He knows. You know guys I would love to interpret this the way you did. Love to. BUT I listened very careful to the sequence. He talked about coming home for the stuff and the single - yes that was two separate things BUT Joy said clearly "they all want to know about this on twitter, ask him about the single". I think the promise to be secret is about disclosing the single. :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/ true re the "secret" but: ".. BACK HOME...I HAVE SOME STUFF THAT I GOT TO WORK ON AND I 've got TO LAUNCH THIS THIRD SINGLE..." |
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Post by 4Ms on Aug 24, 2012 13:09:50 GMT -5
tina I was looking for some stuff on Adamtopia 1 the other day, maybe a couple of weeks ago, anyway, I couldn't find it, and neither could the internet., has it been taken down? I went from the links here in one of the round up threads, or maybe it was 4M's archive thread. yes, it is gone now, the site was taken down with no notice I didn't realize it was actually gone. I have had times when I couldn't access the site one day and then I could the next, but I hadn't tried lately. |
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Post by Soaked on Aug 24, 2012 13:14:10 GMT -5
You know guys I would love to interpret this the way you did. Love to. BUT I listened very careful to the sequence. He talked about coming home for the stuff and the single - yes that was two separate things BUT Joy said clearly "they all want to know about this on twitter, ask him about the single". I think the promise to be secret is about disclosing the single. :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/ true re the "secret" but: ".. BACK HOME...I HAVE SOME STUFF THAT I GOT TO WORK ON AND I 've got TO LAUNCH THIS THIRD SINGLE..." Please also keep in mind that these are considered "snippets" from a JOY's full interview with Adam which, according to them, will be aired on Monday their time. We don't know what goes before and after what we hear now, and what is cut in between. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2012 13:20:30 GMT -5
tina I was looking for some stuff on Adamtopia 1 the other day, maybe a couple of weeks ago, anyway, I couldn't find it, and neither could the internet., has it been taken down? I went from the links here in one of the round up threads, or maybe it was 4M's archive thread. yes, it is gone now, the site was taken down with no notice No, no, no!!  That means the Grammy Nom thread is gone!! |
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Post by bullsfan on Aug 24, 2012 13:21:13 GMT -5
One positive is that they clearly need Adam back in the US to launch this single, which must mean that they have something significant planned. Because this is a THIRD single. And, unlike the lead-off song, a third single doesn't normally require the artist actually being physically present. So, something is up with this single release.
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Post by theosgma on Aug 24, 2012 13:22:13 GMT -5
Damn I'm like a yoyo...going back and forth But the interview on Sunrise, both the female and male showhosts asked him specifically about AI judge gig and he said" I don't know anything" Isn't that an outright confirmation that AI is a "No'?? No, I don't think that at all. I think is the classic "ducking" response. If it is a no, I can't not believe he would say he is still being considered. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2012 13:32:56 GMT -5
2012-08-23 Joy 94.9df The whole interview is interesting the part that we're talking about is after the 23 minute [soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/14gelly/2012-08-23-joy-94-9df[/soundcloud] IMO, he is definitely NOT talking about the single, with his surprise talk! This kind of confirms, in my mind anyway, that the Japanese fan got the "surprise stuff in Sept." quote right. Then Adam had that twitter party for the sole purpose of back pedaling (perhaps after a "What the hell did you say?" phone call from Shosh!) ;D And, OMFG!!! He is hiding stuff about a Queen tour, too! I just know it! |
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