Didn’t Cookie also release the video for LO pretty quickly after the single was released? Does anyone know if Kris plans on releasing a video for his single?

As far as I know there are no plans at the moment for a video. Haven’t heard him working on one either. But maybe when the album is done and his schedule is a little more free, he’ll start working on one.

I just looked at my Itunes New Music Tuesday email, no Kris. Jive should have at gotten him included in that. I know I definitely check out songs from that email!

Yes – I was surprised to not see Kris mentioned in the new music Tuesday itunes emails – and it made me think that by releasing the single on friday (not the norm) he had missed out on this kind of extra PR.

I didn’t follow the post-AI events much last year, but if this was really the case, then I worry for Kris.

Cook’s promotion was good, the problem was the single that was not well received initially. Cook had more momentum at release time because TOML did well and he has a bigger core fanbase, but LO suffered of not sounding current, whereas LLWD does.
In a long run, LO did well though, but to be honest I would have been so happy if Cook’s first single had been LLWD instead of LO.

It has got the same promotion as Light On had last year

I didn’t follow the post-AI events much last year, but if this was really the case, then I worry for Kris.

I wonder if the single will perform better if more radio stations pick it up. I’m curious because I’ve read Jordin’s Tattoo had a slow but steady climb as well…what was the progression of Tattoo in terms of sales and airplay?

I worry all the more because Adam’s singles (the 2012 one and his first single off the album) will surely be released in the next couple of weeks, and I’m pretty sure those two songs will rocket to the top of the iTunes charts. I am already cringing at the comparisons that are sure to come.

It looks like all that remains are LLWD and the I-tune Pass w/No Boundaries.

The itunes pass is advertised with the new single included, but LLWD isn’t shown on the itunes pass page.
Has anyone who has bought the itunes pass received it?

I wish Jive would put more effort in promotion (a big banner in iTunes would be nice, they had one for the iTunes pass before, I recall).

It has got the same promotion as Light On had last year

I wish Jive would put more effort in promotion (a big banner in iTunes would be nice, they had one for the iTunes pass before, I recall).

If the “single” No Boundaries remained on I-tunes the popularity bars would be larger than LLWD. LLWD popularity bars have overtaken the I-tune pass w/NoBo. I’m not sure if that bodes well for the I-tune pass sales.

I do know Kris’s sales figures based on 3? days sales will not compare to DC’s 109k or DA’s 166k.

Music Sales Overall Ranking:
I-tune ranks #1 with 25% of music sales (digital only)
Walmart ranks #2 with 20% (predominantly CDs)
Best Buy #3 with 16%
Target 10%
Amazon 10%
FYE 3%
Borders 3%
Rhapsody 1%
12% other retailers
*Target, Amazon, FYE, Borders, Rhapsody — data from 2008
The top 3 data from 2009

In Digital sales alone:
I-tunes holds 69% of sales
Amazon just 8% of sales
23% other

Although DC’s pre-orders were strong on Amazon for a fairly long period a time. A guesstimate of his sales from Amazon would probably be in the family of $15,000 – 20,000 more or less based on his album sales of $283,000. I-tune and Amazon pre-order sales were definitely not the bulk of DC’ record sales.

Much of the CD sales will come from Big Box Stores such as Wal Mart and Target, especially on Black Friday and pre-holiday.

Kris has a very fun snarky dry wit which I didn’t notice on the show, not until I started to read his tweets that I noticed he had such cool humor.

I loved the tweets between him and David Cook about the “ice shift” incident. That was such a crack up.

i dont think i can wait a month and a half…and Nov 17th seems so far away!