Originally posted by torontophenom: Usually big promotional efforts for an album start up the week of the CD's release. I thought most of us knew that.
Absolutely...but this comes out Tuesday...and I don't feel like most people realize that. That's a problem.
Grammy FYC: Kanye West, 808s & Heartbreak; Black Eyed Peas, The E.N.D.; John Legend, Evolver; Paolo Nutini, Sunny Side Up; David Guetta, One Love; Kelly Clarkson, "Already Gone"; Jordin Sparks, "Battlefield"; Kings Of Leon, "Use Somebody"; Maxwell, "Pretty Wings"
Originally posted by Gucci: Is Jordin's album still coming out on July 21. I've seen zero promotion for it.
Yeah, I just saw it's at #117 on Amazon.com. I doubt her first week sales can be that strong based on what little promotion the album has had at this point.
#117 on amazon.com; that is pathetic. Her first week sales will probably be poor. I don't get why Jordin is waiting to the week of her CD release to do all this promotion.
Originally posted by Gucci: Is Jordin's album still coming out on July 21. I've seen zero promotion for it.
Yeah, I just saw it's at #117 on Amazon.com. I doubt her first week sales can be that strong based on what little promotion the album has had at this point.
#117 on amazon.com; that is pathetic. Her first week sales will probably be poor. I don't get why Jordin is waiting to the week of her CD release to do all this promotion.
her record label probably assumes she has enough "celebrity" to promote the album and rocket to number 1 within a week
that and i don't know what new competition she has this coming tuesday
it's a fantastic album really...and i'll definitely buy it..and she'll be the second idol i buy for...
I agree with all of you. I actually think this album is slightly better than Kelly Clarkson's "Breakaway" album, which was ranked #1 by me as the best Idol winner album. There are so many highlights on "Battlefield", there are very few mistakes and misses here. The production is top notch, the vocals amazing and the hooks/choruses crazy good.
Here is a quick ranking of each song.
1.Walking on Snow - 10/10 2.Battlefield - 9.5/10 3.Don't Let It Go To Your Head - 9/10 4.S.O.S. (Let The Music Play) - 9.5/10 5.It Takes More - 10/10 6.Watch You Go - 9.5/10 7.No Parade - 9.5/10 8.Let It Rain - 9/10 9.Emergency (911) - 8/10 10.Was I The Only One - 8/10 11.Faith - 7.5/10 12.The Cure - 8.5/10 Deluxe Edition 13.Papercut - 7.5/10 14.Postcard - 8/10
I can't remember the last time I gave so many tracks on an album very good grades.
Hopefully this album has legs. There shouldn't be any problem choosing singles off this, there are so many possibilities that would be smashes on radio. I look forward to see how this album runs its full course.
SCHEDULED PROMO FOR NEXT WEEK: • Jul 20 2009 Good Morning America • July 20 2009 Z100 • Jul 21 2009 Live w/ Regis & Kelly • Jul 21 2009 Entertainment Tonight • Jul 21 2009 Late Night w/ Jimmy Fallon • Jul 22 2009 The Today Show • July 22 2009 Alexa Chung • Jul 24 2009 The Wendy Williams Show • July 25 2009 VH1 Top 20 Countdown
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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine Jordin Sparks didn't get any traction until she received a boost from Chris Brown via their duet "No Air," the one moment on her 2007 eponymous debut that felt unquestionably modern, so it makes perfect sense that her second album,Battlefield, ditches almost all lingering American Idol pageantry for stylized pop and R&B pitched halfway between Rihanna (whose "S.O.S." is shamelessly rewritten here, with Shannon's "Let the Music Play" substituted for "Tainted Love") and Leona Lewis. That doesn't necessarily mean that Sparks is now better-suited for this sound — she's still mannered and too eager to please — merely that she's had success, enough of it to hire some of 2009's biggest hitmakers in the business, including T-Pain and OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder. Most of these namebrands are recordmakers, not songwriters, so it's not a great surprise to find Battlefield bears a brittle production almost as combative as its title, all treble and bass and rhythmic hooks, where Jordin's voice is only another brick in the digital wall. This doesn't apply quite as strongly to the clutch of Sparks'collaborations grouped toward the end of the album — all ballads, some with vaguely spiritual overtones such as "Faith," whose chorus inadvertently flirts with John Hiatt's "Have a Little Faith in Me" — but for the first two-thirds of Battlefield, it's all a cool calculated assault where Jordin seems almost incidental to the creation of the sound. Because the sound is of paramount importance, this does succeed as pure radio-ready product, which is enough for Sparks to sustain her momentum if not enough to give her some kind of identity to build a career upon.
Jordin Sparks entered the first phase of her pop career as an ingénue, winning “American Idol” with bright talent, bubbly charm and a willingness to learn. Her self-titled debut sold more than a million copies on the strength of four hit singles, each a gust of teenage wonderment or torment. “Battlefield,” her expertly constructed second album, upholds a darker, more experienced tone without losing an ounce of melodrama. Ms. Sparks, now a worldly 19, has her principles, including a stake in overblown emotion.
“Why does love always feel like a battlefield?” she wails, with remorse and rebuke, on the album’s title track, a Top 40 single. She sounds vexed but in control, and undaunted by the copyright interests of Pat Benatar, who preferred her battlefield metaphors in declarative form.
What matters for Ms. Sparks is the pitch of the struggle: Ms. Benatar is of less use to her than Beyoncé, or her “Idol” predecessor Kelly Clarkson, or even Celine Dion. Like all of those righteous and beleaguered touchstones, Ms. Sparks applies an epic scale to her endeavors. On “Emergency (911)” the humiliation of being stood up for a date is cast in histrionic crisis-services terms.
Intriguingly, the music on that song, and another club track, “S.O.S. (Let the Music Play),” evokes the brazen dance-pop of Lady Gaga. And an accusatory brief called “It Takes More” suggests the coltish chilliness of Rihanna. Moments like these faintly contradict the side of Ms. Sparks represented by two songs she partly wrote: “Faith,” which she unveiled at the Commander-in-Chief Inaugural Ball, and “The Cure,” which (alas) has nothing whatsoever to do with the British alternative-rock band.
But it’s a good sign that Ms. Sparks is becoming more compelling as she grows more conflicted. “Watch You Go,” partly credited to T-Pain and Dr. Luke, allows her a rare moment of self-aware candor. “I’m seeing brake lights,” goes the economical first line, and Ms. Sparks sings it evenly. She’s no less stoic or pained when she finally gets to the point: “I hate to see you leave/But I love to watch you go.” NATE CHINEN
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Originally posted by Lauren Conrad: Jordin's "Battlefield" was featured on So You Think You Can Dance, in a Pop Jazz routine choreographed by Laurie Ann Gibson.
Ya I saw that dance routine. It was pretty good. It seemed to help the song move up on iTunes too.
And in other news, it looks like Jordin is gonna have flop first week sales. Pretty sad. The album's pretty good. But like how some have said, she really hasn't been out getting the word out on her single and album until the week of the album release. She better hope for her career's sake that her next singles are big hits to help sell the album or else she's done.
Holy Frig! I just saw projected first sales are between 40-50K. I was totally predicting between 100-115k.
"Battlefeild" the single is starting to pick up in airplay and its climbing digital sales too with it currently sitting at #11 on itunes. Hopefully this and the new single (S.O.S) will help her at least stay steady.
When does SOS "Let the music play" offically go for adds anyway?
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Originally posted by Lauren Conrad: Jordin's "Battlefield" was featured on So You Think You Can Dance, in a Pop Jazz routine choreographed by Laurie Ann Gibson.
That was Pop Jazz? The whole time I was thinking that was Hip Hop.
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I dont like it at all. Walking on Snow should Easily be the 2nd single.