Archive for the ‘Career’ Category
Becoming a Star
I was struck by this image from MJ’s Blog of David arriving at radio station MIx 98.5 in Boston this week. Although we all know that David is the least likely artist in history to allow success and fame to go to his head, it is nevertheless natural to expect that he will become accustomed to ...
Widening the Circle
Watching the always impressive Frontline program on PBS this evening, about our presidential candidates (it can be seen in its entirety here), I was struck by a comment made by one of Barack Obama’s early campaign managers. As he and a friend were watching Obama’s historic address to the 2004 Democratic Convention on television, they ...
Market Positioning
The album description in the Wal-Mart catalog gives us a unique insight into the marketing strategy in place for David. It was in all likelihood not intended to be published as-is, but rather the result of a lazy or overworked Wal-Mart publishing arm that didn’t bother to re-write the distributor release from the label. Here’s ...
Bursting at the Seams
Note the erroneous–but so true!–AI status designation. No, I’m not talking about thighs. It seems that Crush is trying to be a bigger hit than Jive wants it to be — at least at this point in time. I don’t claim to know all the mechanics of it, even chart-heads (David is one of them, as ...
The Crushing Continues
New Archubeauty from R4D. Click to enlarge. David is up two more spots from last week to #20 on the Radio & Records chart, and also outsold every other of the eight Idol alums with a current release, including Carrie Underwood, Chris Daughtry, Jordin Sparks, and Jennifer Hudson. With 405,000 sold so far, David is all ...
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