Is Epic doing a good job of promotion for LIVE? Options

[ShowalittleLove]

I've heard tons of bashing on here(which is pretty normal) on how crappy Sony/Epic has done promoting LIVE. I have to say that with the AI performance and the album available on the web and in stores shortly this should have a sudden impact on the album. Not to mention the preorders that have been backlogged due to the repeated postponing of the US release. I was hacked off I couldn't buy the album right away, but from a sales point of view I think it's better to wait until the right time and have an instant impact than have the album be sluggish for months until something happens. I think many will change their minds on Sony/Epic if the album sales reflect this AI performance and thus open the doors for more oppurtunities. Just wanted to see if opinions were the same or changed recently.

[Soxwsc]

I find it sad that Taylor Hicks' new song has 324 new spins this week, and Live has only been added to 1 radio station. I agree, Epic messed up.

This post has been edited by Soxwsc: May 30 2006, 9:27 am

[sandkind]

I find it sad that Taylor Hicks' new song has 324 new spins this week, and Live has only been added to 1 radio station. I agree, Epic messed up.

Taylor hicks = ass

[SJN1279]

I just looked at the poll and was wondering how people could actually think that Epic is doing a good job promoting Live. Not only did they dump the band on a smaller distribution label, but they failed to promote the band even after their performance on American Idol. Not only that, but they failed to keep the band's May 9th release date and totally missed the American Idols sales bump that would have occurred the week of May 24th.

Geffen pushed Heaven to become a hit. The song was a total flop under Radioactive, but once Geffen took over, they found a market for the song and pushed the hell out of it. Epic has thus far failed to garner any radio airplay for the two singles that are at least as marketble for the Hot A/C radio market.

Mystery also was debuted on a the hottest show of the year with over 30 million viewers. Epic thus far failed to garner the radio airplay to feed off the buzz of the recent performance. As far as I can tell, Epic hasn't done shit for Live outside of a cool spring tour.

This post has been edited by SJN1279: Jun 4 2006, 3:05 pm

[beau99]

Not only did they dump the band on a smaller distribution label

RED Distribution is actually one of America's largest CD distribution company. They handle distributions for 42 different labels.

This post has been edited by beau99: Jun 4 2006, 7:04 pm

[SJN1279]

RED Distribution is actually one of America's largest CD distribution company. They handle distributions for 42 different labels.

Yeah but bands on Red/Epic are generally the bands that much less promotion. Live is by far the biggest band on Red/Epic. I don't think I even know of any other band on that branch of the label.

[SJN1279]

My final point is that if you aren't a big Live fan who hangs out on their message boards like us, or you didn't watch Ellen last Friday, would you even know that Live had an album coming out on June 6th. Birds of Pray at least that decent promotion and you knew May 20th was the day for album release. I remember Sirius Sattelite radio promoting Live's new album at least four times a day.

Also since Live goes overseas June 6th to tour, they will not be able to do any US promotion the week of the album release. Real good move!

Anyone have any good things Epic has done for the band? I'd love to hear them.

This post has been edited by SJN1279: Jun 5 2006, 4:32 pm

[sandkind]

My final point is that if you aren't a big Live fan who hangs out on their message boards like us, or you didn't watch Ellen last Friday, would you even know that Live had an album coming out on June 6th. Birds of Pray at least that decent promotion and you knew May 20th was the day for album release. I remember Sirius Sattelite radio promoting Live's new album at least four times a day.

Also since Live goes overseas June 6th to tour, they will not be able to do any US promotion the week of the album release. Real good move!

Anyone have any good things Epic has done for the band? I'd love to hear them.

you are absolutely right. they release it in the US while they are overseas instead of before their US tour where they could take advantage of the publicity they received from AI & Ellen. it would have been great to be able to by the CD at their shows. it is completely unfathomable to me how anyone thinks epic has done a good job.