10.10.11 Adam News & Info

I dunno why but Im even more excited about the 2nd album and single now, even after hearing that it will be delayed. ;D
What I wish with regards to the singles, in addition to them being brilliant, is that they will translate easily to live performances.

Now please dont throw things at me, but to me personally, the tv performances of FYE, WWFM and IIHY were..well, a little awkward and the vocals didnt come across as being as mindblowingly amazing as we know them to be from GNT and AI performances. Perhaps it is because on the sets of the tv shows, the sounds dont resonate as much and the sound feeds straight to the mic, as Adam had once mentioned.., or perhaps its because Adam still gets nervous performing for tv, as he said in his interview with Heidi.. but it seems to me that the biggest thing is that the songs were just really hard to sing live., as is evident by the many cringe worthy attempts made by other people to sing them... Songs like fever, sure fire winners and strut I think, would have translated better to live performances and would have better showcased the vocals, although I am aware, that they may not have been radio hits..

So what I;m saying, is that I hope Adams next single will be both a big hit on the radio and be able to showcase Adams amazing vocals and stage presence to their fullest.

I'm thinking he learned a whole lot about choosing singles by singing FYE live those few times we got it.

And yeah, my enthusiasm about the next era got ramped up significantly these past few days.
I can feel the buzz starting- it may be a murmur right now but it will increase with each day and a month from now we'll be rolling in press and announcements regarding appearances!

This is greatly simplified but.....

For the three US traditional retailers who matter in music sales -- Walmart, Target and Best Buy -- the store employees have little or nothing to do with the music department stock. And most are part-time employees who do not have much awareness of the music department. (This is a very small department in all three chains and store employees pay attention to the department with lots of sales $$$)

In all three cases, and it does not matter if the music department is owned or done by a third party (like Walmart), all three use sophisticated forecast and replenishment systems to set stocking levels and have centralized merchandising departments who decide on initial ordering and stocking levels.

That said, store employees notice the unusually high selling CDs -- maybe that will be Adam in the future -- recent notable high-selling artists SuBo and Adele and Little Wayne. BUT store employees really notice the artists who do not sell and who generate big returns -- Britney's last album and Gaga's last album had way too much stock in retail. The MJ This Is It displays were stuffed with inventory that moved much more slowly than anticipated. And anyone who has worked for a retailers knows that dreaded words -- Return to Vendor (RTV). Tons or work, just expense with no sales for anyone.

Music fans have more awareness than the employees of these chains. It was different when there were music specialty stores.

Hope that makes sense.

Really? Hmmm, very surprised at those comments. I thought his TV performances were wonderful (except for the vocal in FYE at the AMAs. And even that is not as bad as I first remembered.) I was in the live audience for several of his live performances and, for me, they were wonderful. His live performances are of course different than the album versions but they are supposed to be. They're live. And 186,000 people mut have loved the green tornado performance from Idol because that is what WWFM sold in the 2 weeks immediately following it.
I love FYE and almost every song on it. It is still in heavy rotation in my car CD player. I do expect album #2 to be phenomenal, but I love album #1!

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