5.22.12 THE DARK SIDE - Post here if.....

I don't think Adam would have any problem opening for a bigger act if the fit made sense; or co-headlining with someone. He has already played in radio concerts where he wasn't the headlining act.

Wow, I finally creeped back into this thread. I was upset the other night when I posted that I went into a heart flutter. Scared the crap out of me, even though I am now on meds that is supposed to prevent this. I had to sit back and evaluate if all of this is worth being so depressed about. I guess what hit me, was that if he has 2 failed singles, there won't be a third on radio, unless RCA regroups, which I doubt. Adam is replaceable at RCA. They are looking for money makers and One Direction is big payday for Sony UK.

I worried about hearing new music from Adam and having a forum to read and post on daily. I was worried about losing all of this. I am trying to be objective, but I am a natural born worry-wort. So as one poster posted Que sera sera. There must be some universal order that is awaiting to happen, because Adam always seems to land on Top.

Thanx Nica. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow. So I will discuss the flutter. I don't want to be in the UK and have something happen. I just stirred myself up, stressed myself out, and caused it on my own accord. I have been trying to be very zen. But when I don't have a son and hubby that always cooperate, I go find something to do that takes my mind of it, and my heart rate calms down.

I did read theo's post and I find it exceedingly fascinating. Lets hope she is right and as these 2 planets speed up, the universe as I stated in my post will open up for him. God knows he deserves it.

While I wish other singsers and boy bands the best and success, I want equal success for Adam. That is all.

Sorry, but this is just too extreme a position, as I see it. My original post on the subject of promotion (or a lack of it) was a whinge because I see the lack of promotion in Australia as a key factor at play here.

My response to you is good natured, and I am ;D and simply interested in the discussion.

Unfortunately for smaller countries, the cultural imperialism from the US, in particular, is very pervasive, much to my irritation also. Is is all-pervasive, and we slavishly follow every lead to the point that if Adam's songs had been a hit in the US, Australia would inevitably follow? Maybe, but maybe not.

Any analysis of Australia's pop charts would tell you very quickly that we take some, but not all artists and their songs. It is not an automatic given or direct reflection. We can and do still have our own perspective on things, our own culture and our own artists to factor in to the equation, our own radio PD idiosyncrasies, politics and market/demographic factors.

If we look at WWFM, it entered the Billboard chart in January 2010 around the 60 mark, and it only reached it's top 10 peak position around May. Hardly a meteoric, massive hit, that would "compel" a radio station to start spinning it here. Singles reach No.1 in the US and the UK routinely that we don't hear on our radios.

I'd need to double check our mediabase, but I'm pretty sure that our radio stations did not start playing the song until Adam visited the country in March. I can't remember how closely tied this date was to the FYE album launch, but I think it was pretty close. My point is obviously that radio spins co-incided in this instance with the promotion, not a compelling position in the US charts.

That particular promotional tour was very well executed from a marketing perspective. Over a few days, Adam blitzed the east coast radio stations that lead the music markets, both the mass markets and the influential LGBT programs. He was on TV singing his single on multiple occasions and had guest interviews on high rating "talk" format programs. We celebrated his performance and his spectacular codpiece at Mardi Gras.

As a result of this, WWFM entered the Aria chart on 21 March, a couple of weeks after this visit.

If promotion was a key factor last time, it is in play this time, in my view. And to date, in Australia, it has been very poor - a poorly researched key radio interview where they said BTIKM was the single and a few minutes on Sunrise, where they were more interested in the "Obama" angle.

What no one knows about of course, is what, if anything, happened behind closed doors between Sony and the PDs that also influenced airplay, and what is happening this time.

None of this is intended to negate the truth of the "follow the leader" approach you've written about and I can't speak for any other "smaller" countries you mentioned. But I wouldn't be surprised if there were subtleties there also, once the surface was scratched.

In fact, the UK experience will be an exercise in seeing the "power of promotion" at play. The difference there is how to get BBC radio 1 to play his music - UK glamberts spoke about this, and other factors at length during the FYE era.

On the broader issue of homophobia, that was also being discussed when I originally posted, I think there can be confusion between direct homophobia on the part of individuals such as PDs, and institutionalised homophobia (example of which are littered everywhere including in recent posts here). In the US, the evidence is overwhelming that the latter is a factor - to what degree, to me, is the only issue when it is taken into consideration with other factors that people are also posting about. Sadly, Australia is no shining light either on the social justice front.

Swarm, if you are lurking, I remember you well from those places you spoke about. Welcome.