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Old 26-02-2015, 16:50
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http://www.billboard.com/biz/article...rd-release-day

About time, it should have happened years ago.

The regional release model just does not make sense in the Internet age because the Internet does not recognise national borders.
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Old 26-02-2015, 17:32
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Agreed. It's about time individual new songs were released everywhere on the same day.
Artist albums tend to have close/same release dates globally.
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Old 26-02-2015, 20:30
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shouldve been a Monday globally
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Old 26-02-2015, 22:34
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So are they going to change the date the charts are announced in the UK. It was done before to ensure a full first week of sales were taken into account
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Old 26-02-2015, 23:04
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shouldve been a Monday globally
I prefer Friday myself. It means I can get my CDs when I go out shopping on a weekend.
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Old 27-02-2015, 07:13
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shouldve been a Monday globally

friday makes more sense. years ago the release day was a monday but the records were shipped with an embargo to be delivered to stores on a monday, which meant on monday morning the stores had to accept delivery, check it, unpack it, price it and stick it on shelves. so hard to get stuff on the shop floor for doors opening, especially big stores. remember you are talking ALL the new releases for many artists, so considerable volumes of stock, and many varied releases. so as this wasn't great for anyone, the labels kept the monday release day but shipped goods without an embargo so they arrived at stores around thursday/friday so they could do all that, and have stock ready for sale on monday morning. ie. stock up at the end of the day on saturday/sunday or early monday so the goods are priced on shelves

however the problem with that is whilst there were threats from labels if you sold stuff early, big stores like hmv wouldn't sell stuff early, but smaller stores often would. they may not just stick it on display openly, but would sell under the counter if asked. for smaller stores often struggling to make ends meet, they often had regular customers and get to know them, and some would sell early to those they knew. certainly i never had to wait to get my hands on anything on release day since that practice started

at the same time, by having that in place it meant those who could gain early access could upload stuff online a few days before the official release day, and that can cause more harm as who wants to buy something they already got for free. so whilst some stuff may have been available earlier in other countries, not all releases were worldwide, so uk only releases could be online before they were in stores anywhere

so making it friday makes sense. they get goods wed/thu and have a day or two to get ready to sell, and fri/sat/sun are the busiest days in retail, friday is a common pay day and people go shopping after work, often leaving work early, and they can listen immediatelly at the weekend. monday was just a poor release day, it did help make monday a busier day than it normaly would be, but instead of an album coming out and selling a pile straight away, things wouldn't usually pick up until the weekend

or course it's all a bit late now people can download from itunes at the stroke of midnight on release day, so be listening at 7am on the way to work, long before the record stores open
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Old 27-02-2015, 08:52
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As far as I can work out this is to solve that nonsense where an album is released in one country on a certain day and another country sometimes weeks later.

It won't do anything to help OR hurt physical stores.
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Old 27-02-2015, 09:50
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Makes sense, it means that fans of a particular artist don't have to wait longer than others to be able to hear, download or stream their new tracks

Stating the obvious fact
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Old 27-02-2015, 11:27
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As far as I can work out this is to solve that nonsense where an album is released in one country on a certain day and another country sometimes weeks later.

It won't do anything to help OR hurt physical stores.
Is it though? Unless I've read it wrong, all it means is that the global release day is a Friday. It doesn't do anything to stop an artist releasing in the US on Friday March 5th and the UK on Friday March 19th.
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Old 27-02-2015, 11:58
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Is it though? Unless I've read it wrong, all it means is that the global release day is a Friday. It doesn't do anything to stop an artist releasing in the US on Friday March 5th and the UK on Friday March 19th.
You are right, but reading between the lines what would be the point of that? The only ones who are going to lose out are the record companies, and record companies are the ones who have pushed for the change..

Generally albums are released over the same weekend in multiple territories.
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Old 27-02-2015, 12:24
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You are right, but reading between the lines what would be the point of that? The only ones who are going to lose out are the record companies, and record companies are the ones who have pushed for the change..

Generally albums are released over the same weekend in multiple territories.
Because artisrs can't promo in the UK, US, Australia for example and be in the country on the release date.. The situation now means you can promo in the US Monday-Wednesday/Thursday, fly to the UK and promo over the weekend for the Monday release and probably get over the Australia for its Friday release. Not saying many/any do that but it's possible to promo three major markets in their release week which is now impossible if they release the album on the same day, in the same week, globally.

I'm not against it happening, I'm actually surprised a global release day hasn't happened before now, just saying that there is nothing stopping record labels from continuing how they've done business for years.
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Old 27-02-2015, 12:29
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Because artisrs can't promo in the UK, US, Australia for example and be in the country on the release date.. The situation now means you can promo in the US Monday-Wednesday/Thursday, fly to the UK and promo over the weekend for the Monday release and probably get over the Australia for its Friday release. Not saying many/any do that but it's possible to promo three major markets in their release week which is now impossible if they release the album on the same day, in the same week, globally.

I'm not against it happening, I'm actually surprised a global release day hasn't happened before now, just saying that there is nothing stopping record labels from continuing how they've done business for years.
You don't actually have to fly to countries to promote a release anymore though. In 24 hours you can promote an album in the UK, US and Australia very easily.
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Old 27-02-2015, 15:38
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So is the UK chart week going to change?
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Old 27-02-2015, 19:07
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^ I'd be surprised - if they kept it the way it is now, the songs that are released on Friday will have the distinct disadvantage of only being on sale for two days with the rest being on sale for five more.

But there is another question that this raises: what are they going to do when this comes into effect?
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Old 27-02-2015, 19:56
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^ I'd be surprised - if they kept it the way it is now, the songs that are released on Friday will have the distinct disadvantage of only being on sale for two days with the rest being on sale for five more.

But there is another question that this raises: what are they going to do when this comes into effect?
I personally think they'll move the chart week to Friday-Thursday, but still keep the chart show as a Sunday - although it would be quite nice to have it on a Friday evening. Hey, they could even bring back TOTPs and create a nice combined radio/TV chart
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Old 27-02-2015, 23:56
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Does this means albums will be released at the same worldwide or just that they are released on a friday instead of monday? (regardless of which friday).
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Old 28-02-2015, 00:01
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Very pleased about this. In this day and age things like regional release dates and region locking of content (this desperately needs to be the next thing to go) have no place.
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Old 01-03-2015, 14:19
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^ I'd be surprised - if they kept it the way it is now, the songs that are released on Friday will have the distinct disadvantage of only being on sale for two days with the rest being on sale for five more.

But there is another question that this raises: what are they going to do when this comes into effect?
And this shows the problems that I have of editing posts whilst typing them - there should have been "if it stayed the same" before the hyphen, and the question was referring to the time when it changes: are they going to have a Sunday-to-Saturday chart, followed by a Sunday-to-Thursday one, then a Friday-Thursday chart, or is it going to be Sunday-of-week-one-to-Thursday-of-week-two one?
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Old 01-03-2015, 15:19
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so global release day is Friday .... like the Cinema? Interesting move. So surely this means that charts will change with Friday being the new 'Sunday or Tuesday or Thursday' chart day ?
Buzz chart/ Update Chart released on Sunday maybe ?
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Old 02-03-2015, 09:02
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Is it though? Unless I've read it wrong, all it means is that the global release day is a Friday. It doesn't do anything to stop an artist releasing in the US on Friday March 5th and the UK on Friday March 19th.
What would be the point of standardising the release day and then doing this though?

Of course, it is the music industry we are talking about so stupid ideas are always possible.
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Old 02-03-2015, 09:35
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Like I said before, this isn't (to me) an indication that record labels will change the way they release records. They obviously could do, Columbia Records for example released both of One Direction's last two albums pretty much globally on a Monday anyway.

I'm pretty much saying it very much could happen that they release the album globally on the same date but just having the release on the same day doesn't "solve that nonsense where an album is released in one country on a certain day and another country sometimes weeks later."
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Old 05-03-2015, 18:57
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Didn't Eminem once release an album on a Friday in the UK and sold enough copies in 2 days to enter the album chart at #1 on the Sunday?

For years I've wondered why albums were never released on a Sunday considering a sales chart runs from Sunday morning until Saturday night. Releasing albums on a Monday has never really made sense, and now that music is consumed digitally it makes even less sense to release albums on a Monday.

When I think back to when I bought physical CDs it was always at the weekend, so releasing albums on a Friday makes perfect sense. A new album could easily sell 50k on a Saturday alone if there was enough public demand, and the album would probably sell a similar amount the following week so albums would be less likely to enter at #1 and drop out of the top 10 the following week (see Imagine Dragons's latest album for eg).

With Imagine Dragons, a Friday release would have probably cost them a #1 chart position but may well have helped the album remain top 10 the following week. It's catch 22.
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Old 07-03-2015, 01:44
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A brilliant idea
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