Looking At Label Leakage
Written Oct. 31, 2007 by Sean Ross in Content with 0 Comments
A story in yesterday's Boston Globe takes a look at the competition between "official" pre-release leaks of new superstar releases and the unofficial Internet sort. I'm quoted in the story and if it's not clear what I'm referring to, there was a period of several years in which anytime an established artist, particularly on the R&B side, came out with a first single that didn't perform well, the album release was suddenly pushed back. The ostensible reason for recording new tracks was because of Internet leakage. But it usually only happened with projects like Usher (remember "Pop Ya Collar"?) where the first single had been disappointing.
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