Comments on: ON U.S. VS. EUROPEAN RECORD RELEASE DATES

By: ERiK

ERiK — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:19:15 +0000

Any links to the blog? From what I can see, it appears to be removed/deleted.

By: stu1

stu1 — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:00:05 +0000

What a stupid and uneducated post.

By: stu1

stu1 — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:10:18 +0000

That’s why labels aren’t sending a lot of promos out anymore.

By: stu1

stu1 — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:08:36 +0000

Bingo. I also don’t think it’s “everywhere else.” I think it’s different in different territories, just like movies and books.

By: Nickmeister

Nickmeister — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:59:13 +0000

There was a very interesting blog that Lilly Allen wrote about illegal music downloading which got quite a bit of publicity. It was on the papers today (at least The Sun -the paper famous for the Page 3 models, crappy news, and great sports coverage)… The press has given her commentary a lot of focus recently. Look it up if you can. Worth the read.

By: joshkid

joshkid — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:54:47 +0000

Great post! Vince, why don’t you start writing your own column for Metalsucks? lol

By: Sin and Death

Sin and Death — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:51:17 +0000

Holy crap, I actually learned something from reading MetalSucks. This has to be a first.

By: jf

jf — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:42:25 +0000

I used to work at a big record store (three letters, first letter h, last v) and this very topic would always baffle me. I understand the need for hype, but people would come in all the time after hearing a song on the radio or read about a band in a magazine (remember music magazines!!), but the album wouldn’t come out for another 6 weeks (many times by which their interest had gone).
Or, they’d have heard something during a trip elsewhere, and I’d have to say it hadn’t been released in North America (or may never be).
Also, and this is just my own thing, why do labels even send out advances anymore? There are albums being leaked all the time on the net weeks before you’re even able to buy it. Isn’t that just inviting lost sales?

By: Buttor

Buttor — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:12:54 +0000

anyway, the cool thing about this is that I was buy my copy of the last Alice In Chains yesterday !! Hail Europe !!

By: Insomnivore

Insomnivore — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:03:26 +0000

It’s to do with the day that charts/sales are announced, usually the day before release dates to give new releases a full week of sales. As for why America is different to most of the world I don’t know, either way it’s probably decided by retailers at the end of the day.

By: Also

Also — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:42:16 +0000

Aside from the basic “Europe releases on Mondays, N. Am. releases on Tuesdays” thing, different distributors have different release dates. Most domestic indies have the option to release an album every other week. That’s not necessarily the same in Europe. This is why bands on the same label are often a week (well, 6 or 8 days) apart.

By: SP420

SP420 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:17:11 +0000

They won’t fade, because there’s an underground, and there always will be. There’s always going to be small bands signed to small labels only able to release their albums in a certain territory and then maybe down the road (a year or so) they’ll get a distro deal in another territory.

By: dlux

dlux — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:57:38 +0000

but why do records come out on tuesdays here and on mondays everywhere else????

By: Joel Bailey

Joel Bailey — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:36:37 +0000

The 1990′s called and want their business model back… Record Labels doing “staggered release dates” = FAIL

By: bearbomb

bearbomb — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:35:49 +0000

How come MY stupid questions don’t spawn their own posts?

By: cougar party

cougar party — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:53:33 +0000

Nice, now i get it. Thanks for the explanation, Vince.

By: d.o.g.o.b.g.y.n.

d.o.g.o.b.g.y.n. — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:52:01 +0000

This makes sense for bands like Scar Symmetry who are from Europe, however in the case of bands like Devildriver who are from the US it is absolute poppycock that albums such as “The Last Kind Words” come out almost a month and a half later in the US! (Then again, that’s the type of ineptitude we know and love from the US branch of Roadrunner Records.)

By: Gaia

Gaia — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:45:48 +0000

An interesting piece! I too have wondered this!