6.14.11 Adam News & Info

Adam at Pirates vs Ninjas by perish's studio 69 at Vanguard LA 6.11.11 fla.vor.us/199943-Pirates-vs-Ninjas-tickets/Pirates-vs-Ninjas-Hollywood-VANGUARD-LA-June-11-2011.html

@argeneau: Oh hai Adam :-) bit.ly/m2y4ky
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More Info about Adam's New Album

Continuing on the pirate theme

@isla_sandz "My name is Adam Lamberto Montoya. My album is a killer. Prepare to die!" t.co/GiG1qP2
6.13.11 agovia Kanvaso


Rene Toledo -- a sound engineer from Maimi tweets and causes a trend

ReneToledoJr: Adam Lambert is really cool peoples. I enjoyed meeting him and working with him. His album sounds killer!

ReneToledoJr: I just want to confirm that I'm NOT one of the producers on the new Adam Lambert album.I saw my name trending so I wanted to correct things.

ReneToledoJr: I worked w/ him but not as a producer. Sorry for the misunderstanding. But I'll admit his ALBUM IS KILLER!


Nikka Costa talks a bit about working with Adam

Q: Inunderstand you're working with Adam Lambert. What can you tell me about that?
A: I was writing some songs with him for his record. It was great. He's really talented. He's a super nice guy. Fun to be around. We'd met a few times before. We have mutual friends. He was easy to hang with. You throw anything at him to sing and he can sing it. Really cool experience. He's a really nice guy. Really awesome. He's very real and down to earth.

Link to entire interview: www.soundspike.com/features/tour/2344-nikka_costa_concert_news_tour_dates/



RCA Ed posts about the album

CA Ed: Sunday, June 12, 2011 - 10:28

Re: What happened to @flaminga's 'IM DYING HERE' thread???

There is NO ETA or date - as I said below; 6 months was a random figure I chose to use. Adam is working on the record now. We fly him around the world and cover the costs of studio time, musicians and producers, while he works and collaborates with other artists. No one in Adam's 'organization', if you'd like to call it that, is sitting around twiddling their thumbs - we're as busy as ever. Everything in life simply has different phases, and in art, you can basically break them down into creation or promotion. Clearly, we're in the creation phase now, where 19 and RCA support and fulfills Adam's vision and talent in piecing his new album together, and provides inside looks into the process wherever possible. These looks will naturally snowball as the album comes together and the multiple elements that go into launching a successful album, instead of a dud, are built together around the MUSIC. Announcing a precise street date will happen in due time. But that's why throwing out firm dates now is a pointless exercise. Of all the things we do, the creative process is the last one you want to put a timeframe around. We won't rush or slow down Adam as he follows his muse - just back him up with the resources to do so, whether all his collaborations bear fruit or not. The rest of the release planning is built around the creative process. Take a load off kids...no matter what, you won't hear new music for months still, hence my point about not jumping off a cliff. Hang in there!


LinR09: Sunday, June 12, 2011 - 11:17

You can correct me if I'm wrong Ed, but I kind of think that the 6 month estimated date has a lot to do with Cook's album/ promotion having to run it's 6 month course. RCA doesn't want the Idol artist's albums competing against each other.

RCA Ed: Monday, June 13, 2011 - 00:17
Adam and Daughtry will likely have new albums released weeks apart (p.s. Daughtry's MGMT is no longer affiliated with 19, and the day-to-day teams were always separate anyway). Earlier this year, I oversaw digital planning for new CDs by Avril, The Strokes, Foo Fighters, plus the GNL DVD within 5 weeks of each other. We do map our schedules very carefully, but we can multi-task, too, since all the moving parts involved often require new timelines, juggling, and tough decisions. The 6-month guesstimate is just my personal stab at a potential release based on my years of experience - nothing more. If enough things go differently in this massively complex creative/recording process, I will be wrong.

Adam too was throwing out a date based on what made sense to him in the moment, but do you think he'll pass on trying one more take (or a dozen) on a particular song because he mentioned a Fall 2011 release in some long forgotten interview? In other words, don't bet the farm on anything right now or you'll likely get burned. Oh, but you can expect a single to be unveiled roughly 2 months ahead of release (whenever that is). That's standard practice for getting a single as high as possible into the charts ahead of street date, to heighten awareness.

And can we please be grownups and stop asking whether RCA supports Adam and vice versa? It's gotten SO old, guys, seriously. This is a business, and I'm sure Adam would resent it as much as I do, if you reduce the dead-serious approach with which we pursue his success to some kind of child's game for the gossip mill. That kind of baseless fighting talk works great in soap operas and schoolyards, but please believe me when I insist that we're all adults and professionals working together here. There's strength in numbers where the entertainment industry is concerned and that's one of the reasons why Adam took a chance on a mass-marketing platform like AI to catapult years of hard work and his god-given talent to the next level of exposure. I sometimes think you forget that it took the biggest TV show in America to pipe Adam into your living rooms, as it did mine. How many of you were at the clubs when he was paying his dues? Just because you immediately saw the light, doesn't mean you would have found him without that platform.

Listen, like it or not, some people will simply choose NOT to buy Adam's music...it's called free will, and no one here has magical powers to change that. Once you burst out of the euphoric bubble of obsession surrounding any given artist site, there's an entire universe of consumers who simply aren't as taken with the same thing as you are. I'm sure you all know people in your daily lives that you simply cannot convert to Adam's cause, and that's just the way the world turns. But with each new album comes new amazing music that may do just that. Keep in mind, 95% of the music-buying population DOES NOT hang on every note released by a single artist or two, but sample the songs they like best by any artist that crosses their path. Our goal is to keep capturing as many of those more casual fans as possible. Torturing yourselves over such realities is just a waste of glam-energy, dig?

But we behind the scenes, on the other hand, are paid to torture ourselves while pursuing this goal - LOL - so I promise we'll continue to do our best, always!

Link: www.adamofficial.com/us/node/2013186#comment-2015376




Upcoming Events

Check the Adamtopia calendar for more events and links to more info.

6.19.11 Toronto, ON Canada MuchMusic Video Awards
Adam's IIHY is nominated for Most Viewed Video, not expected to attend.

6.21.11 Sydney Australia 2011 APRA Music Awards
Adam Lambert¡¯s ¡®Whataya Want From Me¡¯ is nominated as 2011 Australasian Performing Right Association Limited (APRA) Music Awards ¡®International Work of The Year¡¯.

Adam is not expected to attend.

APRA Music Awards ¡®International Work of the Year¡¯ (list)

California Gurls ¨C Katy Perry (Calvin Broadus/Katheryn Hudson/Martin Sandberg/Lukasz Gottwald/Bonnie McKee/Benjamin Levin/Brian Wilson/Michael Love)
Fireflies ¨C Owl City (Adam Young)
Hey, Soul Sister ¨C Train (Patrick Monahan/Amund Bjorklund/Espen Lind)
O.M.G ¨C Usher (Will Adams)
Whataya Want From Me ¨C Adam Lambert (Alecia Moore/Martin Sandberg/Johan Schuster)



July or so: Behind the scenes video of Adam #2 recording sessions to be released.

7.29.11 Adam performs at the St. Agathe en Feux Festival in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, QC, festival concert.

ATop Quebec concert thread: www.adamtopia.com/index.cgi?board=adam2performances&action=display&thread=321


Late Summer 2011 New single released

October-November 2011 Adam's second album released

Every Saturday from New Zealand -- Adam Lambert Hour -- Live 7:00PM EDT US.
Link: www.adamlamberthour.co.nr/

Check out the ALH page for podcast of previous shows.
This is the only weekly Adam Lambert show in the world.




Voting Opportunities

I have changed my recommendation on VH1 Do Something Awards to DO NOT VOTE
5.27.11 by Q3

On 5.25.11 I recommended voting in this competition. Since then I have done some additional research and testing.

1. Voting for the celebrity online awards is just a way to build awareness for the real awards show.

2, Adam is not nominated for any award. The only way to vote for Adam is as a write-in. It takes much longer to cast a write-in vs. voting for a nominee. There is no limit on voting. So 10 minutes of Adam fan voting time can be wiped out in about 1 minute by someone voting for a nominee.

Poll rating (0=lowest rating, 10=highest rating)

Adam benefit: 3 ¨C a win could raise awareness of The Trevor Project.
Fairness: 3 - there is an attempt to limit voting for just one category but it is very easy to work around.
Potential to win: 9 ¨C The voting structure makes a write-in vote very timeconsuming.
Fan value: 2
RECOMMENDATION ¨C vote only if you are willing to work really hard.


About the awards: DoSomething.org and VH1 have partnered to present The Do Something Awards to honor young people's commitment to social change. VH1 is doing a series of online contests to promote this event ¨C they have nominees but also accept write-ins. One of the celebrity categories could help Adam but, more importantly make a difference.

The category: Charity Song

The write-in: @adamlambert for "Aftermath Remix" and mention the Trevor Project.

You need to sign in on Twitter or Facebook to vote.

Below the SUBMIT button, it says:

¡°Did we miss your favorite?
NOMINATE YOUR OWN!¡±

Clink on ¡°NOMINATE YOUR OWN!¡± and you will get a voting pop-up window.

Link to cast a write-in: www.vh1.com/shows/events/do_something_awards/2011/
Note: If you send a really clever tweet, VH1 may retweet it.

More information about The Do Something Awards

Broadcast: Thursday, August 18, 2011 @ 9/8c Location: Los Angeles, California

Link: www.vh1.com/shows/events/do_something_awards/2011/about.jhtml





The Much Music Awards - Most Watched Video of the Year[/color]

Award is issued on June 19, 2011.

Adam is up for a Much Music Award in the muchmusic.com most watched video of the year category. Just click on the category and click on Adam's pic. Adam won last your for WWFM and we can win him an award for IIHY this year.

Poll rating (0=lowest rating, 10=highest rating)

Adam benefit: 5 ¨C could result in a TV mention and video clip being played during show.
Fairness: 6 ¨C spamable but bot/automated voting prevention.
Potential to win: 2 ¨C There are 25 videos up for this awards -- it will take a lot fan effort.
Fan value: 5 ¨C yes, this one results in a mention of Adam on an important Canadian award show.
RECOMMENDATION ¨C This is worth some effort. Play when you get a chance.

Link to vote: mmva.muchmusic.com/nominees/



Fuse Battle of the Fans:
Adam vs. Bruno Mars[/color]

At 12:00AM EDT 6.14.11 Adam was barely ahead.

Which heartbreaker has the best fans?

Adam Lambert 50.04%

Bruno Mars 49.96%

Of course, the only correct answer is Adam Lambert has the best fans.

Poll rating (0=lowest rating, 10=highest rating)

Adam benefit: 2 -- no real benefit.
Fairness: 2 spamable and bots can vote.
Fan value: 3 -- at least it is something to do while Adam hides --- errrr I mean works.[/color]

RECOMMENDATION ¨C Play for fun, this means little of nothing.

Link to vote: fuse.tv/music/polls/battle-of-the-fans-heartbreakers/poll-646.html?poll635=again&scrollTo=poll635




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