When would promotion start + Is November Really a Good Idea?

[hoolign10]

I was wondering if anybody knows when promotion would start for an album that was scheduled for release in november?  I would think it would be soon, and I am growing skeptical since we have heard nothing from guns yet. I am starting to think it's not going to happen.

[RichardNixon]

I would think it would start right now. If the album is comming out in November, it would be smart to do a few shows and interviews right now.

I have no idea what goes on in the GN'R camp, so this is purely a guess, but my gut tells me that the new GN'R album will not be comming out in 2004.

[grog mug]

He will release the album on his time.  No set date right now.  Axl Rose will let us know when he's done.  Like I said he doesn't want to be a rock star right now, he wants to be normal.  Out of the media limelight.  When we forget about him, which will probably be never.  He'll release the album.

[DemocracyRose]

Its begining to be tooooo late.....

U2 and Eninem has already announce there albums in november...

[DRUNK]

It's not coming out in November. 

Even if official promotion hasn't started, there will still be leaks of the album's release months ahead of any official announcement/promotion. 


I'm thinking spring or summer 2005 at the earliest. 

[ClintroN]

im guessin' a release date in November, somethin's gotta happen by the end of this year, a single or an announcement!!
hhhhhmmmmmmmm...

[Eazy E]

Its begining to be tooooo late.....

U2 and Eninem has already announce there albums in november...

Bloody fuckin hell, you're RIGHT!! Eminem's new album is coming out November 16th.... Holy Shit.   

[Butch Français]

Its begining to be tooooo late.....

U2 and Eninem has already announce there albums in november...

Bloody fuckin hell, you're RIGHT!! Eminem's new album is coming out November 16th.... Holy Shit.? ?

what's so holy about that shit?

[Mutherfunker]

Didn't management say something about the release date and tour all being announced together a few months ago?

Wonder if that still applies.....

I'm still giving it till end of September for news of a November/December release. That's pushing it tho...

@#$%Funker

[Johnnyblood]

I don't see how this thing could come out in November. That's only 2 months from now -- 3 if they put it out at the very end of November. We haven't even heard Axl's promised announcement, let alone the promotions and shit.

[Johnnyblood]

Not to mention that we haven't seen even the slightest movement in the GNR camp. Nobody's rescheduling solo tours, no rumours (as there were w/ GH) of circulars being printed up, no activity at all... nothing, just crickets.

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

yeah, summer 2005 i say. so they have time to go work again after everybody is done with solo careers.
let's change the board to another theme until then.
what about "strawberrie pie" ?

[jarmo]

Isn't U2's new single being released to radio in September and then released in October?

U2 knows how to sell records.

I think that if the band wants interviews in magazines, they should start really soon. The October issues of some magazines are probably gonna be out in September.....



/jarmo

[GorgeousNRandy]

I would think it would start right now. If the album is comming out in November, it would be smart to do a few shows and interviews right now.

it is taking axl as long as slash's guitar solo in November Rain to sort out the new GNR. They won't be as good as the original but im still lookin forward to what he has to offer 

[Mutherfunker]

GorgeousNRandy ay? I guess that makes me HandsomeNHorny  Welcome to the board.

I do think it's leaving it late for a November release, but you never know with Guns.

But then, what if it's gonna be mid December? That's 3.5 months away.... hmmmmmm

Happy guessing 

@#$%Funker

[younggunner]

For a November release promotion would need to begin at the latest October. They can release a single in OCt and have it out for 2-4 weeks before the album drops. Probably 4 weeks. So thats sometime in October. As for the other promotion, same thing. Sometime in late Sept/oct.

For a Dec. release bump everything up a month. We still have time but the light is dimming out as each day passes. If we don not hear anything by mid October, then I personally will not be expecting the album until next Spring.

[Naupis]

i now hope it is not November anymore, because Eminem has confirmed he is releasing an album in the middle of November, and it will dwarf GNR in terms of record sales and press. Right or wrong....Eminem is the hot ticket in music today, and I was GNR to stand alone to garner all the press and record sales it can to make the press a little more favorable.

[Naupis]

Assuming the album were to somehow be released in November, and its looking less and less likely, would you still want them to knowing Eminem and U2 are both releasing new albums as well? Eminem's release will no doubt enter at #1 regardless of what else is released, and I don't want Guns losing out on press because they released an album the same time as Em and U2...who also has incredibly strong fan base. I know you can't release albums based on what other bands are doing, but given all of the time that has gone into this I would hate to see them release it only to be dwarfed by Eminem.

[DemocracyRose]

Another reason why C.D wont be released in November...

Maybe this belongs to the november release thread??

[Booker Floyd]

Yeah, the Eminem album has kind of thrown a wrench in any supposed November plan.  Because while it wont stop anybody from buying the GNR album, it will undoubtedly outsell it...And it would suck to have GNRs thunder stolen.  Not to mention that its an Interscope release...and Im no record business expert, but I doubt Interscope wants two of its biggest releases colliding with one another. 

Not that I actually expected the GNR album this year anyway...