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for itself." Entrepreneur and freelance writer
Cortney Harding wrote in a Medium article that while surprise albums give artists more flexibility, the strategy can usually only pay off for well-known musicians and can be problematic when the album is exclusive to a specific streaming service. David Sackllah of
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s surprise release acknowledged that "the new class of winners release music steadily and adapt quickly to capitalize on sudden flashpoints, rather than trying to force those flashpoints to happen on any sort of regular, preordained schedule. If music industry success used to be all about muscle, now
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one month before its scheduled release date, Beyoncé began working on her next album in secrecy to prevent a repeat. She shared details of the album only with a small circle of people and often shifted the release date, which was only finalized a week before its release. The album was kept a complete
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magazine describes as "a pretty unexpected move" at the time. Shortly after the release, Radiohead's bassist Colin
Greenwood stated the band had several motivations behind the album's release format, including the increased popularity of the internet as a tool for discovering music, frustrations with
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stated that the news of another surprise album from Swift "came as a major shock", as she has been "the industry's most prominent loyalist to the pop-album rollout", who turns her carefully planned releases into "an art of their own". In 2022, three hours after the release of her tenth studio album,
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By the mid-2010s, the music industry had entered what Zoladz called the "surprise-album era". While Beyoncé's name became synonymous with surprise albums, subsequent acts used the strategy in different ways. For instance, certain artists unexpectedly released an album, or a selection of tracks, that
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said that while surprise albums were becoming too common to be truly surprising, "it gives artists breathing space to really make an impact and retain control over the way their music is released, pre-empting album leaks and taking their album out of the pre-album press cycle to let the music speak
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to allow fans the ability to edit and remix the new music as they desired. Nine Inch Nails manager Jim
Guerinot said the idea to release the albums without prior announcement was to pre-empt a leak and control the marketing, stating: "Internet searches peak around the leak, not around the single or
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on 13 December 2013, just after midnight in the United States and became the fastest-selling album in history of the iTunes Store within three days of its release. The commercial success of the album was a factor in shifting the global release date for all albums to Friday. Beyoncé later explained
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with little or no prior announcement, marketing or promotion. The strategy contrasts traditional album releases, which typically feature weeks or months of advertising in the form of singles, music videos, tour announcements and album pre-sales. Often, the release of a surprise album is the formal
609:, an album that not only had a previously announced release date, but which Drake himself had been teasing for the better part of two years.) But even when the phrase is used more precisely, it's becoming a bit hollow; we're living through a deluge of albums — even something as long promised as
377:, which for those with automatic downloads enabled, resulted in an unprompted download of the album to their electronic devices. Many users did not want the album and several months after the release were frustrated that they could not delete the album from their devices. David Sackllah of
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the traditional release and promotion format, the freedom of not being signed to a record label at the time, a desire to do something special and unique, and an interest in broadcasting their music directly to listeners globally at the same time. It also served as a countermeasure to
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track list came down the pipe, it was like overwhelmingly, 'This shit is going to be trash.' Nobody really wanted to be wrong about it. I'm not saying everybody, but a lot of people had already formed their opinion". Eminem's next studio album in 2020,
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wrote, "Ever since Beyoncé's self-titled visual album appeared like a
Christmas miracle on the iTunes store at midnight on a Thursday in December of 2013, the rules for how to release a record were rewritten literally overnight." According to
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at the time, "Our view is that giving exclusives to individual streaming platforms for long periods of time is not good for the artist, it's not good for the fans, and it limits the commercial opportunity for everybody involved". By 2019,
1630:"Surprise! I think of Midnights as a complete concept album, with those 13 songs forming a full picture of the intensities of that mystifying, mad hour. However! There were other songs we wrote on our journey to find that magic 13"
446:, he laid out the reason for releasing the album this way. "When you go into an album, you can go into anything with the mindset of, 'This is gonna suck.' I feel like giving them no warning was the best thing to do. When the
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noted that "U2 and Apple deserve credit for thinking ambitiously, but they overestimated the band's relevance with fans, and many felt like the automatic download constituted an invasion of privacy".
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exclusives. The act of Frank Ocean leaving Def Jam called into question surprise albums and exclusive digital releases. An anonymous Def Jam employee said to
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is also credited with the further popularization of the surprise release strategy. Following the leak of her previous album
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published editorial articles questioning if the surprise album release format had peaked in popularity and effectiveness.
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is often credited as the first surprise album. The release was announced on the band's blog ten days prior, which
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it's more about speed". Five months later, Swift surprise-released her ninth studio album,
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1601:"Taylor Swift's 'Chaotic Surprise' Is 'Midnights (3am Edition),' Featuring 7 Extra Tracks"
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the album. By the time the album comes out, it's done."
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Culture News
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1041:"David Bowie's 'Where Are We Now?' – first review"
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3016:Highest-grossing live music artists
1688:Harding, Courtney (5 August 2016).
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1321:Zoladz, Lindsay (8 April 2015).
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1517:Leight, Elias (23 July 2020).
1491:Sodomsky, Sam (24 July 2020).
944:Smith, Da'Shan (2 June 2019).
828:Sackllah, David (5 May 2016).
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454:Music to Be Murdered By
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1919:Sony Music Publishing
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3109:Largest music deals
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1200:on 17 December 2013
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1045:The Daily Telegraph
863:Index on Censorship
330:To Pimp a Butterfly
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186:Where Are We Now?
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