{"id":17363,"date":"2013-02-13T06:23:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T14:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/?p=17363"},"modified":"2019-11-05T10:59:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T10:59:47","slug":"album-launch-publicity-gimmicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/album-launch-publicity-gimmicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Launch Publicity Gimmicks of Famous Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, we featured a band who launched their single\u00a0by putting it in\u00a0USB sticks<\/a>, tying them to helium balloons, and setting them free. Someone from Twitter pointed out that the concept is not original, that it has been done by Jack White months back- but with flexi-discs. So I Googled it and yes, it’s true. I realized we so need updating with the latest musician publicity gimmicks. So I spent the whole afternoon looking up on the crazy things musician do to get attention for their album release. Here are some of them:<\/p>\n

Radiohead\u2019s <\/strong>Newspaper<\/strong>
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Radiohead giving away copies of their newspaper,\u00a0The Universal Sigh<\/em>, in conjunction with their new album\u00a0The King of Limb<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ellie Goulding\u2019s Digital Autograph<\/strong>
\n\"ellie<\/a><\/p>\n

Now autograph signing sessions are entering the digital age thanks to Google+ Hangouts. \u00a0The idea, which came from the Creative Lab here in London, allowed Ellie Goulding to hold the world’s first digital album signing as part of a promotion for her second album.\u00a0Using a Wacom tablet, Photoshop and a custom Google+ Hangout app\u00a0Ellie Goulding talked face-to-face some of her fans from across the world, signed and dedicated an album cover for each them.<\/p>\n

Flaming Lips Gummy Skull<\/a><\/strong>
\n\"flaming<\/a><\/p>\n

The Flaming Lips released four songs on a USB drive buried inside a life-sized gummy skull. As in, you have to lick or break the candy before you can listen to their music. They only made 500 of these at $150 each.<\/p>\n

Ke$ha’s blood on Flaming Lips Album<\/a><\/strong>
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Flaming Lips released their new record \u201cThe Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends\u201d with an album packaging blotched with blood of artists like Ke$ha, Erykah Badu, Nick Cave and Grammy\u2019s Best New Artist Bon Iver.<\/p>\n

Chris Brown\u2019s \u201cBeat Women\u201d Stickers<\/strong>
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\nChris Brown’s new album, ‘Fortune’, have been defaced with advisory labels warning people not to buy the LP because he “beats women”.\u00a0Brown separated from his ex-girlfriend Rihanna after he assaulted her in February 2009 before a pre-Grammys party.\u00a0The stickers, which bear the message “WARNING: Do not buy this album! This man beats women!” are thought to have been placed on the albums by anti-domestic violence campaigners…or you know, maybe by Chris Brown’s PR team.<\/p>\n

Taylor Swift\u2019s Pizza Box<\/strong>
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Taylor Swift<\/a>\u00a0Puts Her\u00a0Face Everywhere, Including <\/strong>the <\/strong>Pizza Box. <\/strong>Though perhaps not the most inventive, Taylor\u2019s no-surface-left-without-my-face-plastered-on-it Red<\/em>\u00a0promo run was a thing of nearly absurd proportions.<\/p>\n

Jack White\u2019s Helium Balloons<\/strong>
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White released a limited-edition single by helium balloon from his\u00a0Third Man Records\u00a0label headquarters in Nashville. The track is \u201cFreedom at 21\u201d. White and colleagues at Third Man filled 1,000 blue balloons approximately two feet in diameter with helium, attached flexi-discs and released them into the sky.<\/p>\n

Jon Black\u2019s Nintendo Cartridges<\/strong>
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Rocker Jon Black, who performs as Fort Atlantic, decided to offer his latest album on original Nintendo cartridges.<\/p>\n

You know any kick-ass album launch publicity we can add to the list?
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Last week, we featured a band who launched their single\u00a0by putting it in\u00a0USB sticks, tying them to helium balloons, and setting them free. Someone from Twitter pointed out that the concept is not original, that it has been done by Jack White months back- but with flexi-discs. So I Googled it and yes, it’s true. 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