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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
Y'all exaggerate the power of pop audience. These are the same people who bop to Jason DeRulo, Pitbull and Flo Rida but they do the same exact numbers as this Ciara album. Yeah, she'll get a hit or two, then fade into the background again. I would have said that Ciara should go completely pop a few years ago, but any way she goes, she'll fail.
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No one is exaggerating the power of pop demographics, the point is if her album consists of many pop songs why would she not try and release one as a lead? We don't know how well it'd do but if EPIC tried to push it- it could have became a hit on pop radio and then they could go from there. They could have even done a dual release with I Bet/Kiss & Tell to test out the market before her album was released.
This campaign is messy as hell no matter how you look at it. And yes her fanbase is mainly urban but where are they at ow? If they wanted to support Ci they still would have irregardless if she went more commercial this time around. Bey went commercial. Look at Bey's IA...SF. that ended up becoming her biggest selling album in recent years and she went completely commercial.
Then look what happened when she released 4, arguably her best album yet none of her singles stuck. Ci and Epic didn't even try to push her undoubtedly commercial songs and now we won't know how it would have done if they had.