How you can tell your CD is going to be bad

[Janice Johnson]

If you're the singer, as in album sales.(These are real singers whose albums have not done as well as hoped, but I'm not sayin' any names.).P.S. these are each differnet singers.


1.Your album was released on September 11, 2001.
2.Your album only has had ONE video and hit single from it.
3.Your album is marred by a publicity stunt which you performed only hours before your lead song is played.
4.You make an album shortly after/while having a cocaine addiction.

[Mr. Stefani]

2.Your album only has had ONE video and hit single from it.

Not true. Some record labels are just gay.

[Superstar]

Who released an album on September 11?

[Mossopp]

Originally posted by Nirvana
Not true. Some record labels are just gay.

Could we please refrain from using the word "gay" as an insult?

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by Janice Johnson
1.Your album was released on September 11, 2001.

just because Glitter bombed that day doesn't mean the P.O.D., Nickelback and Jay-Z albums also released on 9-11 bombed too, those 3 albums all did very well. Bob Dylan even released an album on 9-11, and it got him a Grammy nomination.

I wish people would stop the "Glitter flopped because it came out on 9-11" copout, because those 4 albums also came out the same day and all happened to be more successful.

[vashti1999]

I remember the MTV Video Music Awards that year a few weeks beore 9-11 when Macy Gray presented an award she wore an outfit promoting her album with the release date on it: 9-18-01. I remember thinking afterwards how that may have gone down as an infamous negative moment if her album had been scheduled for one week earlier and in light of what happened on 9-11, she would be remembered for wearing an outfit with that date as promotion for an album. Either way, that cd didn't do well.

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by vashti1999
I remember the MTV Video Music Awards that year a few weeks beore 9-11 when Macy Gray presented an award she wore an outfit promoting her album with the release date on it: 9-18-01. I remember thinking afterwards how that may have gone down as an infamous negative moment if her album had been scheduled for one week earlier and in light of what happened on 9-11, she would be remembered for wearing an outfit with that date as promotion for an album. Either way, that cd didn't do well.

the problem is... even tho her debut did well and got Grammy nominations, i think most people regarded Macy Gray as a novelty act, and people were already over her by that point. I think she has some good stuff on all three albums myself

[HuntingtonM15]

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
I wish people would stop the "Glitter flopped because it came out on 9-11" copout, because those 4 albums also came out the same day and all happened to be more successful.

Yeah, even though I love Mariah, I always thought that was a lame excuse. Everything Glitter related flopped, and not just because of the day it was released.

[Dean Winchester]

Originally posted by HuntingtonM15
Yeah, even though I love Mariah, I always thought that was a lame excuse. Everything Glitter related flopped, and not just because of the day it was released.

yes, I think Glitter flopped because of timing... not because of the date it came out, but because Loverboy wasn't getting much airplay, Glitter was getting bad reviews (they could've reshot and re-edited the movie), the album was getting bad reviews before it hit the shelves (she could've been like Monica and heeded advice and revamped it) and als o the entire breakdown incident.

She really should've taken 6 months off and retooled everything Glitter related IMO. Maybe it would've done better.

[AKA]

Originally posted by Janice Johnson
1.Your album was released on September 11, 2001.

Wrong. I own three great albums that were released on September 11, 2001. Ben Folds' Rockin' The Suburbs, They Might Be Giants' Mink Car and Bob Dylan's Love And Theft.

Originally posted by Janice Johnson
2.Your album only has had ONE video and hit single from it.

Bull****. I own many great albums with zero hits or videos. A lot of them never even yielded any singles.

Originally posted by Janice Johnson
3.Your album is marred by a publicity stunt which you performed only hours before your lead song is played.

Originally posted by Janice Johnson
4.You make an album shortly after/while having a cocaine addiction.

Wrong again.

"See, I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do. And if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor - go home tonight, take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your CDs and burn 'em. Because you know what? The musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years? Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreal ****in' high on drugs." -- Bill Hicks

[Hollow]

1.Your album was released on September 11, 2001.

I fail to see the humor.

2.Your album only has had ONE video and hit single from it.

That's stupid.

3.Your album is marred by a publicity stunt which you performed only hours before your lead song is played.

.. what?

4.You make an album shortly after/while having a cocaine addiction.

What the hell is so funny about that? It's not. not because it's about cocaine, but because it's just not. Was this list even supposed to be funny?

[diezman]

Why does an album have to have one hit single and/or video to be considered good????

I have many albums that never produced a hit single or video yet are amazing albums

[Steve M.]

Originally posted by Janice Johnson
1.Your album was released on September 11, 2001.

What everyone else said, plus this - September 11, 2001 was a Tuesday. The American recording industry, for some reason, happens to release new video and audio recordings on Tuesdays, and the fact that September 11, 2001 fell on a Tuesday was an unfortuante coincidence.

Here's another strange coincidence: Although British recording companies release new material on Mondays now, they used to issue them on Fridays. The Beatles's second album, With The Beatles, was issued on a Friday - November 22, 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. With The Beatles was issued in the U.S. with a different song selection and a different title - Meet The Beatles - and the record was credited with helping Americans get over the Kennedy assassination. Weird that the British version was issued the day JFK was killed, huh?

[Mr. Stefani]

Originally posted by Mossopp
Could we please refrain from using the word "gay" as an insult?

no.