Covergirl Nicks, on stands now!

[MacMan]

Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

is she serious? i have news for you, stevie -- it's not because you were without christine that the album "didn't work." you had some of the worst promotion and publicity for that album and the label knew they could recoup a lot of the loss from album sales by having the band embark on a year long nostalgia tour of mostly your hits. both singles were buried on the radio and barely got any air time -- if it weren't from both shows on vh1, no one would have known you even recorded a new album -- they would just think you were doing another reunion tour.

I wouldn't necessarily blame it all on marketing... 218,000 people obviously new an album was coming out and wanted it and bought it the first week. At this stage in the game in an industry in the shape it's in - and with their visibility as an ongoing active band - I think that's pretty good. And there was plenty of press... They won an American Music Award which has a lot of visibility... And I don't think radio picking up on the tracks issued as singles would have made much of a difference on sales as radio play would have come from AC stations and AC isn't known for producing much in the terms of sales - because of the number of listeners... Top 40 reaches a ton of people, but they aren't where radio is today. The marketing actually started the year before with the release of the Very Best Of... Enough people bought that and knew the album and tour were coming... So either they've lost a huge portion of their fanbase, or the cd wasn't considered very good, or people just don't care if they produce new music and just want to hold onto the old... I don't know... I like the cd.. I like that it has lots of tracks... What sort of sticks out is that it does come off as two solo albums put together... So maybe Christine would have made a difference...

Maybe she's making reference to the whole recording process of the project and the stuggles they had there with disagreements about whether it's a double or a single... and the sequencing of it we heard about - sounded like it almost put an end to the whole thing... So maybe that's what she's talking about?