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Songs played to death before being released
woodpecker_pie
06-09-2002
Can someone offer an opinion as to why songs get airplay/videoplays about 2 to 3 months before being released?

By the time the songs get released many people who originally liked it and wanted to buy it ,may have gone off it a bit through hearing it so much and may not buy it anymore.

This length of time between first airing and being released is im sure the main reason why songs enter the chart and drop like stones the next week as the people who wanted to buy the song, buy it on the first week of release.

If a song was given airing say 2 weeks before being released, people would still be hearing it for the first time after it being out for a week and the sales would be spread out and it would make the charts more interesting as they used to be years ago.

Have songs always been aired so early before?
Craig_E
06-09-2002
I can't remember it being this long before, and i agree its annoying and stupid. I mean, many times now i've heard a song for a few months, and been surprised it still isnt out!

hyping a song up is one thing, but by the time a lot of songs come out, people arent interested anymore...
James2001
06-09-2002
I remember when we first got Cable in Feb 1999, Britney Spears "Baby one more time" was regularly playing song on The Box's playlist (no1 actually), and had already been on for a few weeks before we got cable, yet it wasn't released for at least 6 weeks after then and by the time it was I was sick of it. No wonder charts are as we are when songs get airplay so long before they're released.
metafis
06-09-2002
Yep. when I were a lad..many years ago.. ......The first time you heard a single was literally the day it was released.

Records would chart low and slowly climb the chart, mostly, unless it was a really big band like the Beatles, and then everyone would buy the record on the name alone.
Mark H
07-09-2002
Radio 1 did it with the Elvis track. I think it was on their A list 2 months before it actually came out.
msande
07-09-2002
Madisons avenue second song after the huge number 1 was released maybe 2-3 months before its released. I remember seeing it Exxlusive on MTV and saw it 3 months later on and thought "Isn't that out yet?". Lady Marmale by Christina and Company was played to death. And Radio 1 play anything by Eminem to death.
stephen2203
07-09-2002
When I first got the Marshall Mathers LP I thought Stan was excellent but on the run up to its release it was never off the TV or radio. Can't stand the song now.
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