10 Reasons Why Album Delays Kill Your Career
When you stall on dropping an album, everyone gets hurt.
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Tick-Tock: That Killer Album Clock - Album delays plague us poor fans. For whatever reason, artists get trigger happy and tell the world an album is coming on a specific date. It’s almost like the kiss of death. Not all the time, but most of the time that date never happens. These are the ways album delays can kill a career. —Jon Reyes(Photos from left: Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Parkwood Entertainmen, Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
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People Will Stop Caring - In the case of 50 Cent and Animal Ambition, people will straight up forget if you prolong an album release long enough (six years in this case). For 50 Cent, that delay equaled 124,000 units sold. Yikes.(Photo by David Becker/WireImage)
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Social Media Will Take Over - Sometimes social media is too much of a distraction. That might be why Broke With Expensive Taste took so long. Kidding! Delay it long enough and all you’ll have left to do is tweet all day long.(Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)
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...because they tried a Beyoncé - While Queen Bey is the blueprint, not everyone can do “a Beyoncé.” It took about a year (Super Bowl halftime show and a world tour later) for us to get the self-titled album that everyone downloaded in a night. Don’t try that at home kids. Only she can do that.(Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Anheuser-Busch)
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The Months Will Become Years - Unless you’re like Dr. Dre, who can work on the side for years producing for other people and creating gigantic deals with Apple, you might not be able to justify a 16-year gap between projects.(Photo by Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic)
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