Labels Plan Big Releases for Fall
The season’s hottest albums: Jay-Z, AC/DC, Metallica and more
STEVE KNOPPER Posted Sep 04, 2008 9:28 AM
Following two fizzled-out fourth quarters in a row, the major record labels have prepared a superstar-packed holiday shopping season, with U2, Beyoncé, Dr. Dre, Metallica, AC/DC, Jay-Z and top American Idol stars dropping albums through the end of 2008, label sources say. For an industry mired in an eight-year slump, with album sales down 11 percent so far this year, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the pre-Christmas schedule is a rare bit of good news. „I’ll probably stay guarded [on whether] it starts turning things around,“ says Lon Lindeland, Best Buy’s senior entertainment manager, „but it certainly doesn’t suck.“
The fall starts with Metallica’s Rick Rubin-produced 10th studio album, Death Magnetic, which is due September 12th. New releases from Jennifer Hudson, Pussycat Dolls, Akon, T-Pain and Kings of Leon will follow in September and October, but the quarter doesn’t truly pick up until November, with the Killers, David Cook, David Archuleta, Black Eyed Peas and R. Kelly. (Even Guns n‘ Roses‘ Chinese Democracy has a chance: A source tells Rolling Stone that a November release date has been selected in case the band decides to put it out.)
Retailers expect U2, Eminem and Beyoncé for Thanksgiving week, though Eminem’s label, Interscope, wouldn’t confirm the release. „It’s kind of going back to that [Thanksgiving week] a couple of years ago,“ says Andrew Gyger, Virgin Entertainment Group’s senior music product manager, referring to 2004, when Eminem, U2 and Gwen Stefani came out at around the same time. „That was ridiculous.“
Quelle: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/22699919/labels_plan_big_releases_for_fall
„…in case the band decides to put it out.“ :lol:
P.S. „STEVE KNOPPER Posted Sep 04, 2008 9:28 AM“: Anscheined leben die Leute vom Rolling Stone in der Zukunft. ;)
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