Well then I guess Kris is going to have to start pretty much from scratch? Maybe he should focus more on songwriting and see if that opens up more opportunities for him. I think he is a very good songwriter, and it seems to be something he gets a lot of pleasure from. If he makes enough money from that he could use it to fund his own music, tours etc.

I’d like to know what you consider moderate success — 99% of the musicians in the world would LOVE to have sold 300+K albums and nearly 2 million copies of a single song. And I don’t care if 1 copy or every copy was bought by an Idol fan — those numbers still are above what pretty much anyone in the music industry — and definitely most people outside the Idol bubble —  would consider “moderate success”. (There are even a fair amount of artists who would love to sell the 25K or so that TYC has sold to date. There have been multiple articles in recent years that show that less than 10% of the albums released in any calendar year sell more than FIVE THOUSAND copies) 

And I bring up other artists on the radio because there are a lot of artists who have not come close to having sold 300+K of all their albums COMBINED, let alone a single album, or come close to having a gold single, let alone a platinum one, who get radio play. And yet you continue to insist that it is Kris’ lack of sales that keeps him from getting radio play.

That may play a SMALL part in radio PD’s decision making, but obviously it is not the primary reason, otherwise pretty much no artists outside a select handful would ever get their music on the radio. There are several more important reasons than lack of sales that point to his lack of radio play: (A) the song doesn’t fit the format well; (B) the song is not great; (C) the label has refused to push it to radio (more than one person has been told by their local radio PD or DJ that RCA hasn’t “serviced” the station, so they see no reason to play the song)

nvm

Wow I thought Stefano’s song would at least make top 40 but now it looks like its cooked. 

Gavin’s song was also selling very well.  I remember when Kelly’s MKIA was released, and it was noted on here that sales of Gavin’s song were far ahead of its AI, and the sales of many of the songs on the chart that had a similar AI.

girlygirl said: I’d like to know what you consider moderate success — 99% of the musicians in the world would LOVE to have sold 300+K 

Yes, 300K albums sold would be successful, I wouldn’t even label it as moderate in this market, but we know that those sales had little to do with Kris’ music.  That point is hammered home with TYC only selling 24,000 and falling out of the top 200 after just two weeks.  We knew that Kris wasn’t benefiting from the success of LLWD, when that song was averaging at least 50,000 sold for more than two months straight, but at the same time, sales of the album were crashing.  Because of digital downloads, a hit single may not lead to people buying an album, but it should have lead to more stability than what we saw during the time when LLWD was at its peak.

girlygirl said: And yet you continue to insist that it is Kris’ lack of sales that keeps him from getting radio play.

Nope, I keep insisting that it is everything combined.  If it was just the sales, then that would be a problem, especially since he has to make the label money in order to keep his contract, but he’s dealing with a lot more than that, and I’ve listed those things before, so I won’t again.  Overall, right now his image is just not good.  For reasons that are his, 19′s, and the labels fault he is carrying around a lot of baggage that is going to all be weighed by PDs when they are deciding whether or not to play his music.

girlygirl said: (more than one person has been told by their local radio PD or DJ that RCA hasn’t “serviced” the station, so they see no reason to play the song) 

You do realize that this is a line that djs have been given AI fans since the Clay Aiken years?  It’s the same as saying that they don’t have the song.  I’ll translate it, “Our Program Director hasn’t put that song on the playlist yet, so please stop calling us.”

Overall, right now his image is just not good.

I think the problem is he doesn’t have much of an image at all. Maybe they should play up the “heartthrob” image a little. That image is not incongruous with his on stage persona and I see plenty of indication that he is viewed that way by many fans. He just needs more of them, lol!

Maybe I’m wrong but wasn’t Kris so hellbent against the “heartthrob” image? I remember there was shirtless pics surfacing of him and he got upset about it. Kris (along with other male idol alums I would guess) just want it to be just about the music. But they have to know that an artist’s “image” is important too just as much as the music.