Stevie needs Hearts PR team
 

I know many on here are also Heart fans, Stevie needs to get the people working for Heart working for her for her new album. Heart's new album, "Red Velvet Car" comes out on the 31st. They are ALL over the place right now, they have an official Facebook page that sends out three or four updates everyday with their schedule. Starting this week they are in magazines, on TV, they have video clips on Amazon (linked to their web site). They have an official YouTube page that is digging out long forgotten videos (who knew they did a video for "City's Burning" from '82!!!!) and more.
Whoever is working with Heart needs to get in touch with Stevie.

I wouldn't want anybody sending me a schedule update three or four times a day.

Haven't heard a word about it......

Uncles ~ I would love that too... But You Have to Understand How Shallow most of the members here on the Sledge are... Lmaoooooooo... they only like to ridicule and torrment anyone who does not agree with them... So why would Stevie or anyone WASTE their time here...???

Donnie Wayne ~

This board is PATHETHIC!!!

It's not the same thing being sent over and over, it's the updates. Whenever there is a new appearance or a new interview or whatever, the latest links are posted on Facebook.

Well watch the TV, Heart has about 19 appearances coming up over the next month (some of this includes repeat broadcasts of a newly recorded concert for VH1).

Well, just a random comment here but neither Heart nor Pat Benatar have been able to have any chart success for 15 years, Stevie at least does. There always seems to be more interest in Stevie over these other ladies. I’m fans of both Heart and Pat, don’t get me wrong but, people love Stevie. Even if she’s not a chart topper anymore, the fact that her CDs still debut in the top 40 says something.

To be fair, given that an album release is still more than 6 months away for Stevie, we shouldn't expect her PR team to have kicked in yet. I'm really impressed with the number of interviews popping up at this early stage.

I'm not suggesting it kick in now, I'm saying as it gets closer she needs this kind of push. It won't do anything but help. Having said that I'll be curious to see where Heart's album lands it's first week. Currently their album is #11 on the best seller chart on Amazon, #7 on the rock chart and #10 on the pop charts. Again, this is all based on pre-orders only.

I agree Heart's PR team really knows what they are doing. They are constantly updating their website, facebook and twitter and you can sign up to receive text message alerts from them as well. I really hope their new cd does well because every song I have heard from it so far is amazing!

Well, I'm not sure how relevant the Amazon chart is to the world at large. Brian Wilson's Gershwin tribute is Number 1, for crikeys sake. :eek: Heart's last album was a flop (even though it was their best album ever IMHO) and didn't even debut in the Top 100. But then again, it was also released on an indie. At least this time they have a big label behind them, so they have some resources to pour into the promotional effort.

I'm not a big chart person anymore, so I was a bit aghast when I perused the Billboard charts recently. Rock and roll is dead. There are basically three big genres (hip hop, dance pop and country) and one little genre (middle of the road pop) on the charts. I really cannot fathom where the likes of Heart and Stevie fit into all of this. It's kind of distressing.

Yeah the Billboard charts are a joke. I get annoyed when I am checking them every week but yet I still continue to do so. There is so much good music out there that nobody ever hears about it which is really crazy to me.

I would say the one exception this year is Train's latest cd. Its been out for a while now and doing really well considering they havent done that much lately. I have to say I was very surprised that Hey Soul Sister did so well on the charts because I thought it was the weakest song on the cd. My favorite song is Parachutes and If Its Love.

The success of Train is definitely against trend. But then again, Train whored their song out for that commercial (AT&T??), which apparently seems to be the way to get music promoted these days. I would be heartbroken if Stevie had to do this.