All the bits offered insight to David, but the bits on Mraz and Beyonce were pretty telling, donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t you think? About how he views critics and how he views women.

David actually has, like, only 2 close guy friends. lol. All the rest are girls. So he’s very much the type of guy who would view strong women as a positive.

All the bits offered insight to David, but the bits on Mraz and Beyonce were pretty telling, don’t you think? About how he views critics and how he views women.

And the zombie dance was so cute! haha! Oh, and we got a Dang It!, too. lol

Well as Frogcooke said Snarky found David Celebrity playlist and he does do the Thriller Zombie Dance…

hahaha good stuff…

Go David, here is hoping for more good sales this week too…

His celebrity playlist includes:
Michael Jackson- “Black or White”
Gwen Stefani- “What You Waiting for”
Jason Mraz- “Wordplay”
Bjork- “It’s Oh So Quiet”
Kerli- “Walking on Air”
Beyonce- “If I Were a Boy”
Adele- “Chasing Pavements”
Sara Bareilles- “Love Song”
Michael Jackson- “Thriller”
Shania Twain- “Gonna Getcha Good”

btw he does the thriller zombie dance for a second, hahahaha
scroll up and down the list to check out all the clips.
(got this from snarkies)

So far David never fails to post a blog every week. He’s so good! haha I think David communicates more often with his fans than I do with my family lol

Soundscene and Aladdin, I shall remember your posts when the media comparison starts thanks!

Jive has never been a label that does the whole full throttle mega-promotion (Justin Timberlake aside). Yet their artists are some of the most successful anyway.

BTW, that Kathy Griffin video is full of win. lol.

IMO, 180K is amazing in this day and age for a debut artist. A lot of new singers would kill to have numbers like that in their first week. I take it as a positive sign that the number exceeded Crush’s first week sales–that means more than just the die-hard fans have been buying the album.

My Walmart also didn’t have his CD in the New Releases section–but my Walmart is super crappy.

It does seem that Jive doesn’t put as much emphasis on album sales as other labels, which could be why they didn’t push for more shipped. Not that they don’t love album sales and want them, just that they don’t push them as hard as other labels seem to. Aside from Britney and Justin, most Jive (and Zomba) artists don’t have huge opening weeks. Chris Brown sold about 150K opening for his last album; Pink (a Zomba artist) sold 180K (still great, but not HUGE); T-Pain this week sold around 165K, etc. Jordin, as we know, sold around 119K her first week. As a youth-oriented label, it’s not surprising that they would spend more of their time on singles and pushing to radio.

They don’t spend as much on promotion, so they can make more off of less. It’s a different strategy, but one that works for their artists. Promotion to radio is free; tons of ads for the album isn’t free. A lot of the cost-cutting features that Jive employs (they advertise products in their music videos–the cost of the Crush video was partially supplemented by the cars used in the video) is designed to maximize profit. Ultimately, it’s good for David because he’s more able to pay back his share of the promotional costs and album costs. He generated upwards of $2 million in revenue this week that will be split amongst the label, retailers and songwriters. The only money he’s probably making right now are songwriting residuals, but he’ll be able to pay down his debt pretty quickly and actually make money off his single and album sales as an artist probably late this year or early next year.