How to get me to buy your album
Easy method
- Release a great melodic widely-styled hip-hop album that everyone absolutely loves.
- Release a new album that's more consistent but still totally awesome.
- Get mentioned on one of my favorite "stuff" blogs.
- Don't have your album on Emusic. (Being on a major helps.)
- Have your album available on Amazon MP3 Downloads.
Hard method
- Release a totally awesome rock album several years ago.
- Be mentioned often enough over the course of a couple years by people I consider hip that I'm naturally wary of you.
- Have one of my favorite "stuff" blogs say your album is "one of the top 5 albums to come out since Nirvana's Nevermind," which I don't actually read because of (2).
- Have one of your songs be included in a musical sequence in a movie I really liked, which I remember now because it's out on DVD soon.
- Have a song in the hottest hit music video game around, which I start playing.
- Be on the mp3 CD my friend's wife left in the car when he drove me someplace.
- Don't make your album available on Emusic. (Being on a major helps.)
- Be available on a coworker's iTunes share.
- When I'm almost done listening to your album for the twelfth time in two days, have my coworker leave for the day.
- Have your album available on Amazon MP3 Downloads.
Anti-method
- Release an epic hip-hop album I like enough to even get the remix album (albeit on Emusic).
- Release a new album in which you reportedly take "a giant leap forward in song craft, incorporating elements such as pop, reggaeton, and R&B."
- Don't make it available on Emusic.
- Don't make it available on Amazon MP3 Downloads.
- When I look to write this post, even after Amazon started claiming to be selling the CD, have delayed the release of the album by a month.
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