Last night during Monica’s live chat on my blog, I learned that singer Mario’s album that went on sale on Tuesday will flop with expected sales in the 20-25k range. Aw, that’s too bad. One of my readers attributed the flop to lack of promotion. She said she wasn’t aware the album was even coming out until it went on sale on Tuesday, lol.
Heads will roll in the marketing dept. at J Records after the final sales figures come out. I can understand why the label chose not to buy ad space on this blog. Especially since my readers outed their artist some time ago. But from a marketing standpoint, it was a miscalculation since Mario’s fans frequent this blog too. Why not put your artist in front of his fans wherever they may be?
Oh well. I’m still going to go out and buy Mario’s CD because we need to support our struggling R&B artists (except for Ash Trey Song, fukk him).
I dont like the first single w/gucci I cant stand that song, anyways I will go out and buy it this weekend since I will be out shopping
Sandra… I swear you either have a team working for you OR you have multiple personalities!
Good music always gets no shine.
going to try and catch it while its on sale. & I hope someone does lose their job if his album doesn’t do well.
Loving you, loving you, why would you wanna break up. Aw w w w
Mizz u crazy that is the JAM
Sandra I will gladly lotion Trey down
I am getting Marios cd 2day
LOL @ Daisy talking bout she will glady lotion Ashy Trey …
I like Mario. Mario, I am about to set it off in the entertainment field. Look me up soon. I will help your career.
MARIO’S CD IS NICE
I RATED IT A 4.5 cuz it lacked baby makin music. lol
he done went and got grown on us though. i like -I CHOOSE YOU – SOUNDTRACK TO MY BROKEN HEART – BEFORE SHE SAID HI – and THE HARDEST MOMENT.
i still jam to LET ME LOVE YOU
You should let me love you
Let me be the one to give you everything you want and need
Baby good love and protection
Make me your selection
Show you the way love’s supposed to be
Baby you should let me love you, love you, love you
Yes, let’s definitely support our R&B singers, even Trey Songz
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I like Mario and I will definitely support him
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2KaraZ Says:
Sandra… I swear you either have a team working for you OR you have multiple personalities!
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Why you say that?
Marios label failed him. I didn’t know his cd came out this wk
yes they did an extremely poor job marketing this cd if it wouldnt have been for his album leaking on the net i wouldnt even knew it was finished and about to come out
Yesssss yesssss
Fukk trey songz
Yessssssss ooo im
I am here for you!
And mario had a new album? This is another bow wow disaster
Charles this is not a bow-wow disaster. everybody and they momma knew bow-wow’s cd was out but chose not to go out and buy it.
Mario on the other hand… had no promotion, besides the blogs
His people suck seriously. It’s like they have no interest in him succeeding. I’m going to buy his cd. I’ve always liked him, but he stole my heart after his little reality show with his mom.
@buttercup
I really didnt know too much about him until his MTV reality show and then his mom was on that ish soooo bad, I cried for him I really did, I bought GO alot of people slept on that album, but because he isnt getting alot of promotion I will go out and buy his new cd…
@daisy
lmao @ your ashy lotion comment
u can listen to mario’s cd on http://331group.ning.com/
they always have the cd’s on this site about a week or 2 before they come out.
i went on amazon.com to listen to the tracks and see if i wanted to buy…and needless to say, i only dig tract #1 so i didnt buy and no one has said they went and bought it. sad, cause i like mario
people, in the sunday paper, they always tell you whats coming out tuesday whether it be cd or dvd.
check out walmart, target or bestbut every sunday and youll know who drops a cd that tuesday. i buy every tuesday if its something i like. besides if you get it between tuesday and saturday its usually the cheapest. after sunday hits, the price goes up.
pages thats still not promotion you can look and find when any cd comes out if you look but promo is seeing it at places you normally are but not necessarilly looking for it, ie radio commercials, tv commercials, blogs, billboards things of that nature and i just saw a tv commercial on bet like monday for the first time so thats a poor job or marketing
HIS LAST ALBUM “GO) WAS GREAT! HE IS VERY UNDERRATED AND THERE HAS BEEN A LACK OF PROMOTION. THE SAME CAN BE SAID FOR LETOYA LUCKETT!!!! GUESS IF U DONT SELL YOUR SOUL U NEVA MAKE IT BIG
@missmiami … I liek Latoya’s effort also … def underrated.
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I am soooo pissed at J Records…..
I didn’t know the CD was coming out until I went to Itunes and I bought it Tuesday. I like Mario and his documentary on MTV made me adore him. He is so underrated (Like my girl Tamia). He’s still so young. I hope he gets with a label that will market him. He has been out her grinding and doing shows so hopefully that helps.
have all mario cds…underrated..will get it
i love Letoya’s album too. classic r&b . too bad toya did do well on sales
I certainly have nothing against Mario and am in fact a fan. Breakup was my favorite song of the moment until Latoya Luckett’s new joint came out. Still, I have never bought a Mario CD solely because he is forgetable when I am at the music store. I simply don’t think of him. He strattles the line between teenie bopper and grown man and I must say I like my R&B crooner full grown. I will try to remember to pick this one up.
Sorry Mario.
@DCwife I hope Tamias supergroup with Deb Cox and Kelly Price does well they all can SANG! Picked up Mario on my lunch break will listen on my way home!
Yeah poor marketing, because that 1st single w/ Gucci is hot. Didn’t even know it was Mario at first.
back in the day it was cool when r/b mixed with rap at the bridge or whatever. it’s overkill now. i want r/b to be like it used to be and leave the rappers in their own arena, now that it’s mainstream and running on it’s own tank of gas. ‘obsessed’ came on and im bumpin it then suddenly jeezy or somebody come on at the bridge…stationed changed. phuck that. i dont wanna hear rappers on r/b songs any more. it’s nothing against jeezy or any other rapper but singers please get back to singing. you’ve carried these songs for decades without rappers, pleaes continue it.
record companies aren’t spending money on promotions like the past. they figure with so much social networking, the artist should carry the weight of getting their “fans” to buy their cds and come to the shows. a million followers mean nothing when only 50,000 will get out and buy your product or download your song. wtf are the other 950,000 doing?
too bad for mario. they want to put out lead out songs with these “hot for the minute” rappers. nah, artists should shoot for staying power, not for the moment songs.