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Originally posted by Eternium
The commercial ran for 10 months prior to the album's release. How could there be better promo? 
Track 31(?) is on every version of the album. There's not a single album released without it on there. Try again.
"I Been On/Bow Down" and snippet after snippet of "Grown Woman" and "Standing in the Sun" in an H&M commercial.
So 10 months of a commercial running is no promo? Interesting.
I agree Beyoncé is a huge brand. This post is entirely arbitrary to the point, though. She had a 10 month commercial, so how is it possible that she proved you don't need promo when she had such heavy promo? To top it all of, the Beyoncé stans always get pressed you remind them their fave had a heavy promo schedule for anyone not named Taylor Swift or Katy Perry and then want to tell you radio interviews are bigger promo than a 10 month long commercial deal, the Superbowl, etc. |
1. Do you honestly think people went out to buy her new album because of the Pepsi commercial?
2. Yes Grown Woman is on every version of the album but it is a bonus video and therefore not officially part of the album itself. Blue is the last song on the album. Further proof of this is that you can only get it in video form, which contrasts with every other main track of the album.
3. All the snippets of Grown Woman and Standing on the Sun were not official
4. You can stop mentioning this ten months of promo thing because last time I checked the commercial was Beyonce telling you to drink Pepsi, not to go buy her album.
5. Radio interviews
are bigger promo than commercials if in the radio interview you are actually talking about your new album so as to gain sales and the commercial is selling a product that is not an album.
6. Should we bring up the threads where people were saying that Beyonce has lost all her hype because she waited too long?
7. My post about Beyonce's brand was to show that everything she did in 2013 but for the album dropping in December was only promotion for Beyonce as an artist.
8. Finally, let's move onto something that matters. The defintion of promotion which is:
something (such as advertising) that is done to make people aware of something and increase its sales or popularity. Did anything Beyonce do in 2013 (or earlier because I guess Crazy in Love promoted her new album by being a hit and raising awareness of Beyonce) make anyone aware that Beyonce's new album was out and ready to be bought (aside from an iTunes banner and a behind-the-scenes video? Did her tour say to people "NEW BEYONCE MUSIC, OUT NOW!"? Did the Super Bowl contain new music? Nope.
