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ethan

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Originally posted by ethan

For those that don't know, I'm Ethan. I was a finalist in both Survivor: ATRL Edition's first season and All Stars season, where I might have won if we'd finished it (but probably not). I joined the judging panel last year, but I like the panel more this year. I'm the mean one, and the one with the most basic taste in music.

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Originally posted by ethan

Can I just say how much I despise R&B music? Aside from the two classic songs (Love to Love You Baby and Let's Get it On) and two of the Beyonce songs (Blow and Rocket), all of the entires this round were totally unbearable to listen to, and I actually had to listen to all of them because the sound of the song played a big part in the scores. I've never heard so many cheap drum machines, boring and sparse beats, and awful harmonies in my life.

I'm an open book, you guys should have known better!!! I tried to tell you.

Working on mine now!

T-Swizz

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Dylan'

Welcome castaways to your 14th Results Show! Below will be your entries as well as scores from each of the four judges.

This round, you all recreated flop eras into successes. You were each given a score out of 10 based off how you completed each requirement for the entry using the scale below:

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - Comment if you want
4. Revised Tracklist - #/3 Points - Comment
5. A Single-Release Plan - #/3 Points - Comment
6. An Album-Sale Plan - #2 Points - Comment

= #/10 Points

I will post the entries/scores then the final results which will announce who's the winner of the fourth individual immunity this season.

With that said, let's get to it...

1. Golden

Piece By Piece

Kelly Clarkson - Piece by Piece
by: Golden

❥ Tracklist

1. Invincible
2. Nostalgic
3. Run Run Run
4. Let Your Tears Fall
5. Piece by Piece
6. Bad Reputation
7. Take You High
8. Dance With Me
9. War Paint
10. Heartbeat Song
11. Second Wind
12. In the Blue

I personally don’t have much knowledge of Kelly Clarkson’s music. I felt as though that it would be wrong to reorganize an era based on the opinion of someone’s whose truly never been introduced to said singer’s music. I’ve gone around on ATRL asking several Kelly Clarkson fans what they would have done with the album and what they feel like would’ve been right for the era. That being said, this would've been, in my opinion, the perfect era for Piece by Piece.

❥ Single-Release Plan

First single: Invincible

What went wrong with Heartbeat Song?

I can think of a few reasons why HBS was chosen as the first single. It is radio friendly, a bit generic & marks the return of Kelly to pop music. The latter reason is what went wrong with HBS and the entire Piece by Piece era in general. In my opinion, Kelly is not viable enough as a mainstream pop musician. Her voice is too one of a kind and could cater to so much more than just popular music. HBS is just another attempt to conquer pop charts and it failed. HBS just does not feel like a Kelly Clarkson song to me. It’s different but in the wrong way. 

Why would you choose Invincible?

Invincible is, as opposed to HBS, different in the right way. If Kelly were to diverge from her usual pop-rock sound, this is the sound she should be going for.I kid you not when I say I got Sia mixed with Kelly Clarkson vibes from this song only to find out the song includes background vocals from Sia and was written by her respectively. The song sounds orchestral and has a fantastic infectious chorus that would surely stick out on the radio and perfectly compliments Kelly's massive voice.

▻ Release date:
October 1st 2014

▻ Promotion:
Invincible impacts AC/HAC & Pop radio 1 week prior to its release date. Kelly Clarkson announces a small radio tour, doing interviews and promotion the lead single and upcoming album On Air with Ryan Seacrest & several Z100 New York radio stations.
Chart performance: The song debuts on the Billboard Hot 100 at 75 solely thanks to Kelly’s loyal fans. However, the song soars to 43 on the week of Invincible’s release. Kelly performs the song at Good Morning America and Ellen Degeneres. During both interviews, she mentions a new album will be coming soon. The video for Invicible is released October 11th.

▻ Chart performance:
The song continues to build nicely on AC/HAC radio but fails to shoot up on the iTunes charts. Thanks to Kelly’s various promo slots, the song ends with a #34 peak on the Billboard Hot 100.
Not the ideal situation for a lead single, but Kelly’s team is satisfied with the peak and quickly gather to commence the second single release.

Second single: Run Run Run ft. John Legend

▻ Release date:
December 16th 2014

▻ Promotion:
RCA Records decide to release Run Run Run as the second single. They push the song for all radio formats and wait for the song to build up audience. Kelly hasn’t done a promo slot since her performance on Ellen Degeneres. She does a Twitter/Facebook countdown announcing the vide of Run Run Run featuring John Legend.
10 days later the video is released on Youtube. It features Kelly and John Legend sitting on a bench in an open field. Throughout the video, Kelly and John’s facial expressions change as well as the atmosphere. The video shows the change of 4 seasons and different chapters of life. The video ends with the happy chapter. The concept behind this scenery is to portray the upcoming Piece by Piece era and the idea behind the album’s name. It describes Kelly’s journey to happiness and coming to terms with motherhood, matureness and contentment.

The end of the video also shows a black still that reads: Piece by Piece. Out February 27.
The video quickly garners publicity. Fans and music news outlets praise the video for its concept, its simplicity and the stunning graphics. Kelly confirms the release date and thanks her fans and the general public for receiving the video so well.

In the meantime John Legend’s All Of Me is still extremely popular on the charts. More people find out about John’s feature with Kelly and instantly love the song. The song builds momentum and takes advantage of it. Run Run Run starts blowing up on radio.

In January Kelly books three tv slots and holds various interviews. She performs a solo version of Run Run Run on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Kelly Clarkson’s team shift their focus on the UK market. A UK release date for Run Run Run was already announced a week after its initial US release. Kelly goes on a small promotion tour and performs on the Graham Norton Show & Loose Women. Run Run Run is A-Listed by BBC Radio 1 and 2.

Fast-forward to February 2015. American Idol is in full rotation and in Episode 14 the Top 24 is revealed. American Idol perform a small tribute to Kelly who then individually performs Run Run Run and promotes her upcoming album Piece by Piece and promotes the release date.

A video released on Facebook by the LadBible garners attention. People are in awe of Kelly’s vocals during the American Idol performance and speak about how quickly time has passed since she’s won the first season. The song is also popular on Youtube and Vine. Aspirant professional singers with big subscribers all cover the song which garners even more attention.
Kelly profits from the social media attention and announces on Twitter that she will be performing the song with John Legend at the 87th Academy Awards on February 22.
After this performance, Run Run Run blows up on iTunes and reaches a massive 100 million audience on radio.

▻ Chart performance:
In between December 2014 and February 2015, Run Run Run ft. John Legend has jumped from 96-80-44-38-35-33-24-11. The week after the Oscar performance, which is critically acclaimed the song jumps to a number 3 peak.

Third single: Heartbeat Song

▻ Release date:
May 1st 2015.

Run Run Run is still charting in the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 and showcases great longevity but Kelly’s team decide to push for a third and final single.

▻ Promotion:
Heartbeat Song receives one promo slot. Kelly performs the song at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards. Kelly’s team have the idea to gain big audience on pop radio and the song acquires power rotation on all Z100 radio stations for 2 days.

▻ Chart performance:
Heartbeat Song does not make any big impact on the Billboard Hot 100. The song does go #37 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking Kelly’s 16th top 40 hit. The song gains big audience on pop radio and thanks to that the song manages to jump to a #31 peak.
A month later Kelly still has two songs charting on the Billboard Hot 100. Run Run Run is still top 20 while Heartbeat Song is floating around the mid fifties.

❥ Album-Sale Plan

Run Run Run is what saves the Piece by Piece era from disaster. The album goes #1 in its first week of release with sales of 155,000 copies TEA+SEA and 140,000 copies of traditional album sales. Run Run Run’s promo slot on the Academy Awards with John Legend garners a lot of attention on Youtube and Facebook and receives acclaim from several music critics and Kelly’s colleagues.

The album is promoted on Good Morning America, the Ellen Degeneres Show, the Tonight Show and Graham Norton as well as a plethora of radio interviews.

Piece by Piece displays great longevity on the Billboard Hot 100. The mature audience going out to buy the album, thanks to Run Run Run, and old loyal Kelly fans is what makes the album a success for Kelly’s standards. When it’s all said and done, Piece by Piece goes platinum in the US with a total of 2,1 million sales worldwide. That's a realistic number for an established artist like Kelly Clarkson.

❥ My Opinion

RATE: ★★★✫✫

Collectively the album is cohesively okay but but it lacks direction. The album does not have a typical Kelly Clarkson stamp you'd expect. I feel as though Kelly, or her label, tried too much to push her as a popstar. She is not applicable as popstar. She has one of hell of a voice and can sing live better than most female singers. She should exploit off her voice. That is her main selling product. That is exactly how she could cater to more mature audience. Kelly Clarkson can still be a successful musician. That is if she steps away from pop and focus on creating a sound and putting emphasize on what started this all: her voice.

Production on some songs is near-flawless. Standouts on the album are Take You High, Invincible, Run Run Run, Piece by Piece and In The Blue, Second Wind.

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Dylan - Golden

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - So much better than that original mess.
4. Revised Tracklist - 2.5/3 Points - I don't really like this album so it's not possible to truly offend me with any snubs but I do feel Someone should have replaced the cheesy Dance With Me and maybe even Tightrope could have snuck in there. Other than that, quite good for a first listen.
5. A Single-Release Plan - 2.5/3 - Your promotion is all good and well suited for an artist like Kelly that is no longer the hottest pop rock girl on the block. I just didn't agree with the singles completely besides Run Run Run. Despite not being a fan of the song, RRR was a different direction for Kelly and I think that being the second single would have been nice. Kelly stans probably raved about Invincible so I can't blame you for it leading but it did fail to chart despite multiple high profile performance slots which means to me that it just wasn't meant to be. You wanted a moderate hit to start out with so while that may have been possible with Invincible, you might as well have just kept HS as the lead since that one actually was one. I personally would have preferred Nostalgic or even War Paint as the third single but going your route, HS also made sense with the chart peak.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 1.5/2 Points - Like that you included a little review of your own. I find it a bit of a stretch that she'd sell platinum based off one hit especially in the sales climate of the music industry this was released in. As for WW sales, Kelly is considered to be more of a domestic popstar so those sales were accurate. Overall, a nice job of boosting PBP up to new heights.

= 8.5/10 Points

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Ethan - Golden

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - She looks like Princess Fiona, post-ogre transformation
4. Revised Tracklist - 3/3 Points - You only had to cut four songs so it was gonna be hard to mess up.
5. A Single-Release Plan - 3/3 Points - Really entertaining to read. Run Run Run could have been the new Say Something for sure.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 2/2 Points - Sure!

= 10/10 Points I hate this album.

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Yvess - Golden

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - Cute. Better than the tragic original cover
4. Revised Tracklist - 1.5/3 Points
I like most of the songs you used like Invincible and RRR but HBS, WP and SW being there instead of Good Goes The Bye, Someone or even I Have A Dream makes me question if the revised tracklist is really good or not.

5. A Single-Release Plan - 2/3 Points
Good thing u picked RRR and Invincible as singles. HBS shouldn't get a single treatment tbh. Aside from that, I still liked the strategy sou used for the singles.

6. An Album-Sale Plan - 1.5 Points
Despite my disagreements with some of the numbers I still find it reasonable and quite realistic plan for an artist like her.

= 7/10 Points

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Mario - Golden

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - Cool one, really Kylie-esque.
4. Revised Tracklist - 2.5/3 Points - I feel like Someone is quite an essential track of PbP so I wished you let it in. Other than that this is good.
5. A Single-Release Plan - 2.5/3 Points - I don't know if Invincible would've been the right choice for the lead but you kept it realistic with the explanations. Run Run Run deserved the spotlight you gave it, I don't know if it had the possibility to kill it that much but it had the potential. Heartbeat Song was a wrong single choice, anyway you put it. I would've liked to see Nostalgic in its place but maybe that's my bias.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 2/2 Points - You did an amazing job with this. All the promo ideas you had were both good AND realistic for Kelly and that was not an easy feat to achieve. Your prediction also weren't overwhelming but quite reliable and I really loved the effort you put into this as a non-fan. Proud of you!

= 9/10 Points

2. dwuw

WARRIOR

Kesha - 'WARRIOR'

By: dwuw aka Jorge

Tracklist:

1. Warrior
2. Die Young
3. Crazy Kids
4. C'Mon
5. Thinking Of You
6. Love Into The Light
7. Only Wanna Dance With You
8. Supernatural
9. Dirty Love
10. Wonderland
11. Last Goodbye
12. Past Lives

Kesha is known for her dance, club, crazy tracks, but I wanted to show a new side of her adding tracks like 'Past Lives, 'Love Into The Light' and 'Wonderland'.

Singles

1st single: Kesha - 'Die Young'

Release date: 20th May 2012.
Kesha performs at the Billboard Music Awards, premiering her new lead single, 'Die Young', and announcing her new album, 'Warrior', pre-order.
The song debuts at #9, and continues rising the weeks after its debut. She performs at the Ellen show and GMA too.
Her team lets 'Die Young' rise on radio, and they release the music video two weeks after the premiere when the song is already top 10 on radio.
The week after the music video is released, the song hits #1.
[The song peaked at #2 originally, and was banned from radio because of a shooting in a high school]

Kesha is known for her singles, so she releases a second single before the album release.

2nd single: Kesha - 'Supernatural'

Release date: 31st July 2012.
EDM songs were smashing at this time of the year, so Kesha releases a "more experimental" EDM song. The album pre-orders help the song go top 10 on iTunes in a very short time, giving the song more exposure.
The song debuts at #16 on the Hot 100.
'Supernatural' has a hard time rising on radio, since the song isn't very radio-friendly, but the sales are consistent because it's the song every DJ plays at the club.
Four weeks after the song's release, Kesha releases the music video, which is a generic partying video. It gives the song a new push, peaking at #7.
The week after the video release, Kesha performs at the 2012 VMAs. The performance has a great effect. The song re-peaks at #3, being blocked by Whistle and We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.

3rd single: Kesha - 'Thinking Of You'

Release date: 6th November 2012.

After the album is released, TOY becomes a fan favorite, and every fan wants Kesha to make this song a single. Kesha releases a clean radio edit, since it has some explicit words. The song starts rising on radio, being a radio hit, but the sales aren't as great. Kesha suddenly disappears from social media, and she doesn't do any promo for this song. She releases a video almost two months after the song has peaked, and the video has 0 effect over the song. Radio is what saved this single.
It peaks at #29.

4th and last single: Kesha - 'Last Goodbye'

Release date: 5th February 2013

Another fan favorite. Kesha decides to release a final single for the fans, but it has 0 hype since TOY underperformed. The song is a moderate hit on radio. The label doesn't want to give Kesha a lot of budget for the video, so she releases a "home-made" video similar to the "Dirty Love" one.
The song peaks at #36, and doesn't have any longevity.

Album

Kesha - 'Warrior'
The album is released on 18th September, one week after Supernatural has peaked.
It debuts with 150-200k sales, similar to Animal's first week sales. She has promoted the album at the BBMAs and the VMAs. On the album release week, Kesha does promo on Good Morning America, Saturday Night Live (performing Die Young + Supernatural), the Ellen show and The Tonight Show.
The album spends 6 weeks on the top 10, having a weak longevity since TOY + LG underperform and Kesha disappears from social media.
It would end up selling ~600k on the USA and ~1.2M WW.

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Dylan - dwuw

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - The original is so rude.
4. Revised Tracklist - 2.5/3 Points - Love Into The Light has an odd placement in the tracklist so you probably should have moved it to the latter half. Other than that, my only snub would be Gold Trans Am since even though Warrior offered a more vulnerable side of Ke$ha, it also was meant to mark a glam rock side of her which GTA is a prime example of. Nice tracklist outside of that one though.
5. A Single-Release Plan - 2/3 Points - The first two singles are how i would have handled the era since Die Young was a hit and Supernatural was snubbed so hard. Thinking Of You I like as single choice but the random public hiding was really odd since it made only 2 of the 4 singles hits which wasn't necessary when TOY could have easily been a Top 20 for her with the right promo plan. Last Goodbye being the fourth single reminded me of Criminal being the fourth single off FF. The only difference is Britney had 3 smashes before that decision and Ke$ha only had two so I feel TOY's underperformance messed up your plan there. As for promo, you did a fair amount but then she just stops trying after the second single? Feel you took my comment about the eras not being diamond sellers too seriously.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 1.5/2 Points - I just don't understand the media blackout thing but the sales at least make sense considering so it's still an improvement over the real era at least. Overall, I felt you held yourself back a little Jorge as unlike most of these artists, Ke$ha was coming off a highly successful era that allowed you to inflate more than you did.

= 8/10 Points

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Ethan - dwuw

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - Any cover is better than the real one.
4. Revised Tracklist - 2.5/3 Points - YES @ taking out Wherever You Are & All That Matters. However, Out Alive has been a fan favorite since the album was released. I think the slow songs are boring, but Out Alive could be there even over some of the dance-y stuff like Dirty Love or Only Wanna Dance With You (even though it's my fav on the album).
5. A Single-Release Plan - 1.5/3 Points - Not a fan of the single choices. Die Young was a given, Supernatural wasn't a bad choice, but Crazy Kids was an obvious smash waiting to happen under the right circumstances. Thinking of You would never be a hit. Why in this "ideal" era do we have two flop singles for Ke$ha, a 99% singles artist? I think you underestimated how great the era could have been.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 2/2 Points - Realistic.

= 8/10 Points

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Yvess - dwuw

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - lovely!
4. Revised Tracklist - 2/3 Points
I love your tracklist. Slay at eliminating GTA! But I was hoping Out Alive and ATM will be included instead of Wonderland and Past Lives.

5. A Single-Release Plan - 2.5/3 Points
Its interesting to see DY, Supernatural, TOY and LG as the era flagbearers. Everything would be perfect if you switched TOY and Supernatural's stats.

6. An Album-Sale Plan - 1.5 Points
still a Good job at the sale plan. The sales were pretty low for a great album like warrior.

= 8/10 Points

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Mario - dwuw

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point
4. Revised Tracklist - 2/3 Points - I can't deal with the All That Matters and Gold Trans Am snub!
5. A Single-Release Plan - 1.5/3 Points - The first two singles were planned alright but, since you were supposed to transform this into a hit era, it seemed illogical to me to insert a media blackout and the elimination of any form of promo starting with the third single.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 1.5/2 Points - The initial plan was alright. Unfortunately, you didn't try to give the album other promo after the release guaranteeing his, well-predicted, weak longevity.

= 7/10 Points

More coming up.

- Dylan

Dylan'

3. T-Swizz

Lotus

Lotus
By: Christina Aguilera

Lotus: The Open Diaries

The overall consensus of this album's lack of success seemed to stem from the combination of lack of promotion & the album as a whole lacking flow. To help bridge this inconsistency I decided to format the album as a dual disc, intending to market Christina's contrasting facets of artistry. The first disc, Diary of Pain & Sorrows , contains slow and midtempo pop ballads, while the second, Diary of Liberty, focuses on more uptempo beats that blend electropop and dancepop genres.

Diary Of Pain and Sorrow

Just a Fool (With Blake Shelton):

Blank Page:

Sing for Me

Best of Me

Cease Fire:

Diary of Liberty and New Beginnings

Lotus Intro:

Army of Me:

Light Up the Sky

Let There Be Love

Your Body:

Red Hot Kinda Love

Make the World Move

Marketing Strategy

Your Body

Just A Fool

Army Of Me

Promotion Cycle

By: T-Swizz

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Dylan - T-Swizz

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - Better than the original cover.
4. Revised Tracklist - 3/3 Points - I actually have no problems with your tracklist at all. You removed the worst tracks and the splitting of the album helped make this album have a sense of direction the original failed to do. Also, explaining your tracklist was cool as it helped me understand some of the choices i may have not if you hadn't.
5. A Single-Release Plan - 1.5/3 Points - To me, Army Of Me is so lackluster that not even the self-empowerment theme would have made it a hit. I would have preferred Let There Be Love as an easy dance smash over it. Other than that, YB and JAF were two deserving hits that were handled terribly by both Xtina and her label. You agreed on that aspect but you never planned out how you would have changed that fact. You mentioned some possible promo slots but you didn't plan out in the way others did which hurt you in that aspect of the round.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 1/2 Points - I find it hard to see Xtina debuting with so many copies but I guess if you had a smash or two preceding, it would be probable since Xtina is at least still in the public eye. I just don't know how much the album is going to sell in the long run and all your promo seems to be the week of release.

= 7.5/10 Points

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Ethan - T-Swizz

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - Better than seeing her vagina.
4. Revised Tracklist - 3/3 Points - I hate Circles, thank you for cutting it.
5. A Single-Release Plan - 1/3 Points - Did you even change anything? This was you chance to let Let There Be Love become the #1 smash it rightfully deserved to become... ?!
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 2/2 Points - Christina eats too much at Christmas for all that promo but it's well thought out.

= 8/10 Points Your Body is one of my favorite songs ever.

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Yvess - T-Swizz

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point
4. Revised Tracklist - 2.5/3 Points
Lotus had some of the highest highs and lowest lows on its tracklist imo, im glad you were able to see you doing a decent job on removing the unnecessary tracks. AoM shouldn't be there in my opinion. But let me commend you for that wonderful tracklist explanation thingy.

5. A Single-Release Plan - 2/3 Points
Lotus would have smashed if the first two singles were pushed more in real life. Im happy for the first two singles. The AoM inclusion is just not my cup of tea.

6. An Album-Sale Plan - 2 Points
I absolutely agree with your numbers. Honestly speaking, Lotus could have been X's redemption era from the flop Bionic but she just blew it up lbr. Great job overall!

= 8.5/10 Points

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Mario - T-Swizz

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point
4. Revised Tracklist - 3/3 Points - Perfect tracklist, all that was essential was kept. I also liked the dual disc idea, which comes across as a reference to Back to Basics too, in a certain way.
5. A Single-Release Plan - 2/3 Points - The single choices are great but I wished you told us more on how to possibly promote them and predict their different fate with a good planning rather than telling us what went wrong with how the label and X handled YB and JAF.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 1/2 Points - Not bad but you should have secured extra promotion in the following months after the release to make sure the album kept some longevity and managed to sell better in the end.

= 8/10 Points

4. Ares

Britney Jean

Britney Jean - Britney Spears
Release Date: November 19th

By: Ares

Tracklist

1. Alien
2. Perfume
3. Work Bitch
4. It Should Be Easy f/will.i.am
5. Tik Tik Boom f/Nicki Minaj
6. Body Ache
7. Til It’s Gone
8. Passenger
9. Brightest Morning Star
10. Now That I Found You

Era

Singles

1st Single: Work Bitch - released July 9th, 2013
Peak: #9
Britney attends GMA on the 10th. Does an interview talking about the single and the direction/sound of the upcoming album. She hints at a tour. She then preforms Work Bitch as well some of her GH on the GMA Summer Concert Series. The same day she does an on the air KISSFM interview. More album talk and where’s she at in her life.

MV: Same concept as the original. There are scenes of Britney dancing in the desert, poolside, and a club. Britney is actually dancing her ass off. Throughout the video she’s flaunting everything she’s had to “work” hard for. Her body, her clothes, her cars,etc.

2nd Single: Tik Tik Boom f/ Nicki Minaj - released November 4th 2013
Peak #16
Britney goes on the Tonight Show. Interviews about her upcoming album, how it’s extremely personal to her. Unveils album name + cover. She also reveals that she will be touring the US starting in May 2014 and that after the tour is over in August, she’ll be starting her residency in Las Vegas. Performs Tik Tik Boom with Nicki live.

MV: The concept is sexy riot in the streets. In a brightly neon lit street at night, there are cars on fire, buildings with windows broken. Britney leads a pack of dancers through the streets. There’s not so much a storyline in this video but rather just a basic plot. The chreo is on point. Britney is actually doing dance moves the require effort. Cut to Nicki’s feat. She’s leading a pack of different dancers. Cuts back to Brit and the video ends after the final chorus.

3rd Single: Perfume - released February 11th, 2014
Peak #23
Britney is both the host and musical guest on SNL. During the 1st performance she preforms Perfume. During the 2nd performance she does Work Bitch.

MV: Same basic concept as the original. Britney suspects her man is cheating. Britney is a stay at home wife and we see shots of her waiting for her man at home, them out to dinner and the husband being preoccupied on his phone. Cut to the middle of the night, the husband’s phone vibrates, it’s a message from from Stefani it reads “I miss you, xoxo”. From then on we see Britney going THRU it. Crying, looking at old photos etc. She starts spraying his clothes with her perfume, and making sure her scents rubs off onto him. The husband leaves to meet his side chick. Just as they’re about collapse to the bed, she smells Brit’s perfume and kicks his ass OUT! He drives back home only to find his all his stuff outside, locks changed and lights out. Video closes with Brit smiling in her bed.

Album Sales

1st Week Sales: 150k
Promo: Britney attends 2 late night talk shows the week of her album release, Live w/Jimmy Kimmel & Conan. She performs Work Bitch, Tik Tik Boom. She attends 2 day shows, Live with Michael and Kelly and The View. No performances here, just strictly promo for the album. When the full week of release promo is over the album is at 170k.
By the time the 3rd single is released, 3 months later, Britney Jean has sold 300k. She then goes on Tour from May until August. At that point the album is almost gold.

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Dylan - Ares

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - Very personal!
4. Revised Tracklist - 2.5/3 Points - All good aside from the fact you snubbed the best vocal performance of the album Hold On Tight in favor of a Siri-themed will.i.am collab.
5. A Single-Release Plan - 2/3 Points - Work Bitch received virtually no promo and the music video did wonders on Itunes so I feel it could have been a hit with promo (and a less embarrassing radio edit). Tik Tik Boom with Nicki would have been a cute follow up but not a certified smash so I'm glad you had it peak #16. I actually really like Perfume but it just wasn't meant to be a single. There's nothing catchy about it at all. I think you should have just released Til It's Gone and ditched the whole "personal" feel as the album was not that at all. Your promo was a bit bland but the music video descriptions were cute and asking me to change a feature was a cool idea so it saved you a bit.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 1.5/2 Points - My issue with this is while FF clocked out at about 800K with two smashes preceding, Britney in reality hadn't flopped until this point. So taking into consideration she would have 1 major hit and two moderate hits based off your single choices, I think she would have been able to max out above gold, maybe 600K max.

= 8/10 Points

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Ethan - Ares

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - Sure.
4. Revised Tracklist - 3/3 Points - Thanks for keeping Passenger.
5. A Single-Release Plan - 1.5/3 Points - It sucks because there are NO singles on this album at all. Work Bitch would never be a #9 hit, ever. But there's nothing better to be a lead single. Perfume is still a terrible single choice.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 1.5/2 Points

= 8/10 Points Katy Perry co-wrote Passenger

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Yvess - Ares

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point
4. Revised Tracklist - 2/3 Points
Good picks. CWY and HoT >>>>> ISBE
But still slay for picking Body Ache, NTIFY, WB, TTB on the album.
5. A Single-Release Plan - 2/3 Points
Everything is perfect for WB and TTB until you chose Perfume as a single. Shitfume should be replaced with Body Ache or BMS.

6. An Album-Sale Plan - 1 Point
I just find your sale plan too vague. Sorry Ares.

= 7/10 Points

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Mario - Ares

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - A very personal(TM) feel.
4. Revised Tracklist - 2.5/3 Points - Poor Chillin' witchu! The tracklist is fine but Perfume would've fit better in the last part of the album.
5. A Single-Release Plan - 2/3 Points - Work Bitch's plan was really good. I agree with a Tik Tik Boom release as the Urban sound was beginning to be dominant back then and I could've seen it doing good, especially with this new Nicki feature, as much as I think the T.I.'s verse was good already. Perfume is a beautiful song but it's so uneventful that I just can't see it as a good single.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 2/2 Points - The Army wishes!!

= 8.5/10 Points

More coming up.

Dylan'

5. Bloomers

Me. I Am Mariah.

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Dylan - Bloomers

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - Less animated than the original photoshop experiment.
4. Revised Tracklist - 3/3 Points - No real snubs here. You kept the One More Try and Cry so nothing negative can be said from me here. You eliminated some of the more juvenile tracks which works for an artist like Mariah.
5. A Single-Release Plan - 3/3 Points - Well planned promo that is suited for an artist like Mariah that is a legend but not in her prime anymore. I enjoy all of the single choices. You're right about Beautiful being a good lead single as it was a nice collab with just enough of a new sound to get new fans listening. The fourth single being sort of a non-factor was actually smart as it's been a decade since Mariah had an era last that long so you kept it realistic in that aspect. Great job here.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 2/2 Points - I believe Memoirs clocked out at like 600K with only one hit single so with 2 hits and 1 moderate hit on top of regular promo, she could sell 800K pretty reasonably. Overall, a really nice entry this round Bloom Bloom.

= 10/10 Points

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Ethan - Bloomers

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - She'd never go for something where she wasn't well lit, but it's fine.
4. Revised Tracklist - 3/3 Points - I was told to be upset that Thirsty wasn't on there, but you explained why well.
5. A Single-Release Plan - 3/3 Points - I love that you kept #Beautiful, the only great song on the album, as the lead single. Very well written!
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 2/2 Points - A bit optimistic, but that's what this challenge was about really.

= 10/10 Points I hate Mariah Carey.

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Yvess - Bloomers

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point
4. Revised Tracklist - 2.5/3 Points
Almost flawless tracklist. It just misses the R.Kelly and Blige features.

5. A Single-Release Plan - 2.5/3 Points
Realistically done and I love all of the singles you chose. They would do wonders for MiMi with your awesome plan.

6. An Album-Sale Plan - 2 Points
Excellent! I like that you attributed the album's success to its lead single, #Beautiful.

= 9/10 Points

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Mario - Bloomers

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point
4. Revised Tracklist - 2.5/3 Points - Great choices and flow. I wish you left Thirsty as an album track. I know you gave your reason but still I miss it being there.
5. A Single-Release Plan - 3/3 Points - Detailed, realistic and accurate explanations + predictions. You Don't Know What to Do deserved so much to get a spotlight and the lack of that long pause between #B and the album release really killed the hype so I'm glad you thought of a way to recover that disaster.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 2/2 Points - Flawless and consistent promotion and image/media choices. I LOVED the title change as well. Such a little difference can even make wonders.

= 9.5/10 Points

6. Guero

Basic Instinct

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Dylan - Guero

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - The famoussssss Ciaraaaaaa.
4. Revised Tracklist - 2.5/3 Points - You had an advantage here as BI only has 11 tracks to begin with and the other two were just terrible exclusive bonus tracks. That being said, Girls Get Your Money is sort of tragic so I Run It would have been in its place if I had my way. It's a sexy track and that's all BI was about.
5. A Single-Release Plan - 1.5/3 Points - Turn It Up was begging to be released so i wish you would have made that a single instead of either Gimmie Dat or Speechless. You literally didn't change any of the singles so while you did help with promotion, we both know it wasn't just the promotion keeping this era down as the single choices weren't great. Gimmie Dat is that crunk Ciara we all know but it's not very good in my opinion and there were other options such as Heavy Rotation or Yeah I Know that i think could have worked. The real problem was the Turn It Up snub though. The rest was minimal and your promotion seemed adequate for Ciara.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 1.5/2 Points - Reasonable considering she was coming off of another flop era. Maybe pushing her to gold would have made this era seem more successful. Once again, your explanation here was decent but there could have been more of a specific explanation. Overall, an improvement over the real era for sure.

= 7.5/10 Points

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Ethan - Guero

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - Looks like a Sea World poster.
4. Revised Tracklist - 3/3 Points - I mean, to make the album good, you'd have to cut every single song, so you did the best you could.
5. A Single-Release Plan - 1.5/3 Points - Not very well thought out, or at least not very well explained. Ride would NEVER be Top 10. I think there were more realistic scenarios.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 1.5/2 Points - Not very well explained, but I don't blame you for rushing through an entry about a Ciara album.

= 8/10 Points

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Yvess - Guero

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point
4. Revised Tracklist - 3/3 Points
Perfect tracklist imo!

5. A Single-Release Plan - 2/3 Points
I like all of the singles. I only wished you put in nore details about its promotion.

6. An Album-Sale Plan - 1 Point
Pretty average.

= 8/10 Points

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Mario - Guero

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point
4. Revised Tracklist - 3/3 Points - The essential tracks are in and you made good movements from what sounded disconnected in the original tracklist.
5. A Single-Release Plan - 1.5/3 Points - Turn It Up needed a release, imo. Also, the peaks seemed a little high with the little Pop support the tracks would get, given that Urban sound wasn't dominant as now back then.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 1.5/2 Points - Not bad but I wish you tried to market her internationally too, at least in the UK. Anyway, was The Voice already airing when BI got released?

= 8/10 Points

More coming up.

- Dylan

Dylan'

7. Ivory.

Bionic

Christina Aguilera – Bionic
By: Ivory.

Tracklist:

1. Bionic
2. Desnúdate
3. Prima Donna
4. Not Myself Tonight
5. Birds of Prey
6. Elastic Love
7. My Girls (feat. Peaches)
8. Monday Morning
9. All I Need
10. Lift Me Up
11. You Lost Me
12. Vanity
13. Glam
14. Stronger Than Ever
15. I Am

Single-Release Plan:

Lead Single – Prima Donna

Promo Single – Desnúdate

Second Single – Bionic

Third Single – You Lost Me

Album-Release Plan:
The album would be released on July 16th, almost a month after her performance of Bionic and Desnúdate at the MTV Movie Awards. In addition to all of the performances of her singles and various other songs performed in medleys on talk shows, she did a lot of interviews about the album describing it as “just a fun electronic album” she came up with after being inspired by the birth of her son. Also, on May 10th, she announced a short tour to promote the album called The Bionic Tour that would run from August 4th to September 8th. The tour did decently, selling 82% of its tickets overall.
Now onto charts,
US: The album would debut at #2 with 259,000 copies sold first week. After a few months it’d be certified gold.
Worldwide: The album would have 600,000 copies sold first week WW. Eventually the album would sell 2x Platinum overall. Slay.

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Dylan - Ivory.

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - I actually like the original a lot but the text on here is cool.
4. Revised Tracklist - 2.5/3 Points - Woohoo is such an essential track on this album in my opinion. My only issue with your tracklist is that being snubbed for My Girls? The rest is nice especially the Monday Morning placement.
5. A Single-Release Plan - 2.5/3 Points - I can't see Prima Donna leading this era at all. I absolutely loved your global attention that a lot of others didn't focus on. It's just PD being the lead that bothers me. I think the combination of Bionic (check), Woohoo (sorry), and You Lost Me (check) would have been a fabulous era for Xtina. Luckily you included two of those and also included a cute promo single idea that softened the PD blow. So much better than your Britney writing.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 2/2 Points - I'm assuming you meant she'd sell 2 million WW as that's the only way this would make sense. Back To Basics was a hit era so at this point of her career, Xtina had not flopped so her selling near platinum in the states was definitely possible. Nice job Ivory.

= 9/10 Points

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Ethan - Ivory.

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - Ew what's the **** around her eyes and lips?
4. Revised Tracklist - 2.5/3 Points - You think if you take Woohoo off, you'll spare the world from ever being exposed to Nicki Minaj? Hmm. I was weirdly offended by some of the cuts, like Little Dreamer and Bobblehead. Trash Monday Morning over those. Sex for Breakfast being cut was satisfying.
5. A Single-Release Plan - 3/3 Points - I love Not Myself Tonight, but I respect your choices. It seems like an era XLtina would be proud of.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 2/2 Points - Her not playing it up as a masterpiece makes me like the album more.

= 9.5/10 Points

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Yvess - Ivory.

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - Beautiful!
4. Revised Tracklist - 2/3 Points
You missed out on Woohoo and Little Dreamer. Kudos for removing the tragic Sex for Breakfast and IHB btw!
5. A Single-Release Plan - 2/3 Points
I didn't like PD to be a single tbh. Desnudate, Bionic and YLM are pretty good combos.

6. An Album-Sale Plan - 1.5 Points
Slay that 600k sales! Hope X can still have this type of success irl.

= 7.5/10 Points

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Mario - Ivory.

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - Queen!
4. Revised Tracklist - 1.52/3 Points - How dare you keep out Woohoo and I Hate Boys?
5. A Single-Release Plan - 3/3 Points - Great and detailed choices. I love how you went all out for the global conquer while the others just settled for US success hihi.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 1/2 Points - The only thing that sticks out as a sore thumb is that release date, otherwise this would be great. Releasing it in the middle of the summer is a bad start for the sales already. I would've preferred for you to push it to September or even October.

= 7.5/10 Points

8. Element

Avril Lavigne

Avril Lavigne - Avril Lavigne
by Element

Release Date:
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

The Tracklist:
1. Rock N Roll
2. Here's To Never Growing Up
3. 17
4. Hello Kitty
5. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
6. Hello Heartache
7. Falling Fast
8. Give You What You Like
9. Let Me Go (feat. Chad Kroeger)
10. Hush Hush

Lavigne shows off her many different interests and experiences, by exploring a wide variety of genres in this album. The first half focuses more on youth, while the second half demonstrates Lavigne's mature side.

The Singles:

"Here's To Never Growing Up"
Release Date: May 14, 2013

USA: #5
Canada: #2
UK: #5
Total US Sales: 3,000,000
Total WW Sales: 4,200,000

Twitter Unlocking - Saturday, May 11, 2013
Starting on May 11, Avril has her fans tweet #UnlockAvrilLavigne to unlock her new single cover, thus revealing the title. This challenges sends Twitter into a frenzy, with #UnlockAvrilLavigne remaining in the top ten trends throughout the weekend. On the morning of Monday, May 13, the goal is reached, and Avril reveals the title of her new single, alongside its cover. The premiere of the song will occur the following morning. This social media marketing and promotion creates plenty of buzz and interest in the lead single.

Radio Premiere Event - Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Lavigne travels to the "On Air with Ryan Seacrest" studio for a world premiere event of her new single. She confirms that her album is currently in the finishing stages, and reveals that it will be self-titled. The release of the album will be in September 2013. Avril also teases some cool new projects that will coincide with the album promotion, as well as a business deal. The single receives positive reviews, and is spun every hour on the hour on major stations in the United States of America for one day.

American Idol - Season 12, Finale - Thursday, May 16, 2013 - FOX
As part of the "Here's To Never Growing Up" premiere week, and the kickoff to the Avril Lavigne era, Lavigne performs her new single at the American Idol finale. This energetic, colorful performance tops off her premiere week, and contributes to opening week sales of 142,000 -- #7 on the Digital Songs chart behind Selena Gomez's "Come and Get It". This sales week and initial radio deal leads to a debut at #11 on the Hot 100.

Music Video - Released: Tuesday, June 18, 2013
As the summer solstice approaches, Avril drops the video for "Here's To Never Growing Up." The video is a celebration of youth, happiness, and summertime fun. The video's views launches the single into the top ten of the Hot 100, where it will stay for most of the summer, eventually charting at #9 on the Billboard Songs of the Summer countdown. Her first day of VEVO views totals approximately 8 million, and by the end of the tracking week, the video has been viewed nearly 25 million times. It is VEVO certified by the end of September 2013, and it currently stands at 250 million views.

"Rock N Roll"
Release Date: August 26, 2013

USA: #17
Canada: #25
UK: #30
Total US Sales: 1,000,000
Total WW Sales: 1,500,000

2013 MTV Video Music Awards - Sunday, August 25, 2013 - MTV
To wrap up her successful summer, Lavigne takes to the stage at the MTV VMAs, to perform a medley of "Here's To Never Growing Up" and her new single, "Rock N Roll." The track is released at midnight, a few hours after the awards ceremony, and has a fair debut week of sales, with approximately 65,000 sold. Overall, this performance is enjoyable, but forgotten due to multiple controversies and other performances at the VMAs, such as Miley Cyrus, Robin Thicke, and Katy Perry.

Album Release Week - Television Tour - Week of September 9, 2013
Avril performs "Rock N Roll" on multiple television programs: The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Good Morning America, and The Today Show. Summer smash "Here's To Never Growing Up" and album ballad "Falling Fast" are also performed on certain occasions, to show different sides of the album. As the current single, "Rock N Roll" is featured on all appearances, following a short interview with Lavigne. This week's TV promotion is essential for the album's first week sales, and all viewers of each show are encouraged to purchase the album. All guests at The Ellen DeGeneres Show are gifted a free copy of the album, and a Hello Kitty doll.

Music Video - Released: Monday, September 30, 2013
The music video for "Rock N Roll" is full of a plethora of famous cameos from the rock world, including husband Chad Kroeger, Marilyn Manson, Stevie Nicks, The Rolling Stones, and KISS. The video spurs nostalgia and social media intrigue amongst those who grew up in the 70s and 80s, and it accrues steady views over time. In the first week, the video reaches about 10 million views, and is VEVO certified a year later, September 2014.

"Give You What You Like"
Release Date: November 18, 2013

USA: #9
Canada: #6
UK: #12
Total US Sales: 2,100,000
Total WW Sales: 3,000,000

Dancing with the Stars - Season 17, Ep. 10 - Monday, November 18, 2013 - ABC
To coincide with the release of "Give You What You Like" as a single, Lavigne booked a performance slot on this episode. The theme for this week on DWTS was "Plugged/Unplugged Night," with the semifinalists dancing one routine to a fully produced track, and the other routine to an acoustic version. For her "plugged" performance, Lavigne sang a medley of "Here's to Never Growing Up," and her number one smash "Girlfriend," as the DWTS troupe performed an energetic mix of Latin styles and jive. Later in the evening, Lavigne sang "Give You What You Like" with a simple, acoustic arrangement, as DWTS professionals Derek Hough and Sharna Burgess danced a sensual, flowing rumba.

41st American Music Awards - Sunday, November 24, 2013 - ABC
Lavigne performs a stunning, vocally superb rendition of "Give You What You Like," with a single spotlight shining on her and the long-roped swing on which she sits. The performance garners exceptional critical approval, and sees her as a top trend on Twitter for approximately 45 minutes.

Music Video - Released: Monday, December 2, 2013
The music video premieres at the beginning of the tracking week, and garners a full week of streams. The video's moderate popularity keeps the song stable in the iTunes top ten, after it started slipping a little from the previous promotional boosts. The video plot stars Lavigne as a prostitute who is tired of serving men physically. She hopes to find true love instead. The scenes are intertwined with a childhood Lavigne sitting on the rope swing referenced in her AMAs performance. The controversial, mature topic of the video gains plenty of initial media attention. Her first day of VEVO views totals approximately 5 million, and by the end of the tracking week, the video has been viewed nearly 20 million times. It is VEVO certified by the end of April 2014, and it currently stands at 175 million views.

"You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet"
Release Date: February 24, 2014

USA: #24
Canada: #19
UK: #45
Total US Sales: 500,000
Total WW Sales: 780,000

Live! with Kelly and Michael - Wednesday, March 16, 2014 - ABC
Lavigne discusses her current business ventures and the tour promoting Avril Lavigne. She gives a rousing, early morning performance of "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet," boosting it into the top forty of the Hot 100.

Music Video - Released: Tuesday, April 1, 2014
The music video, released on April Fools Day, shows Avril team up with the stars of the YouTube channel, "Prank vs Prank." The trio pulls lighthearted practical jokes on members of her tour, contrasting that while Avril is a mature adult, as seen in her previous video, she is still full of youthful exuberance and fun. The video shows that we haven't seen all that Avril is capable of, and that her next album will be an even more impressive feat. The video is not as popular as previous videos in the era, but it manages to reach about 7 million views in its first week, and is nearing VEVO certification as of July 2015.

The Album-Sale Plan:

Televised Performances - As demonstrated above, an important part of this album's strong chart performance is Avril's continuous presence on television. The performances, especially those on daytime television during the album release week, all led to decent sales for the album.
Partnership with Hello Kitty brand - At the same time of the album release, Lavigne will announce her partnership with the Hello Kitty brand, of which she is a huge fan. During this era, she became a brand ambassador for Hello Kitty, and is featured in commercials with her song, "Hello Kitty." As such, "Hello Kitty" became a successful album track, peaking at #64 on the Hot 100, and charting in the top 20 in Japan. The song and partnership became a huge cultural phenomenon in Japan, a country that has always supported Lavigne.
YouTube Vlog - One of the most important parts of marketing in the modern era is the advocacy of the "brand experience" -- businesses want their consumers to be actively engaged in the product that is being sold, and they want to create a memorable, authentic experience for those consumers. In order to create an "experience" with Lavigne and her eponymous album, the pop-rock star established a Vlog on YouTube, where she uploaded weekly Vlogs detailing her exciting life, tour, and album promotion.
The Avril Lavigne Tour - Held from January 2014 - July 2014, the Avril Lavigne Tour made stops in the USA, Canada, the UK, and Japan, in order to boost sales and enthusiasm for Lavigne.

First Week Sales (USA): 88,000 (#3 peak on the Hot 100)
Total Sales (USA): 1,200,000, as of July 2015
Total Sales (WW): 2,000,000, as of July 2015

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Dylan - Element

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - Such an improvement over that random ass goth cover for an almost pure pop album.
4. Revised Tracklist - 2.5/3 Points - I actually don't mind the HK placement because it's actually a nice asian pop track when you think about it. It's just Avril that made people hate it. I wish Sippin' On Sunshine wasn't snubbed as i actually think it could have worked as a next summer single had this era been a success in real life. Let Me Go could have gone in its place without ruining your youthful/mature theme. Other than that, thanks for removing Bad Girl!
5. A Single-Release Plan - 3/3 Points - Yeah, HTNGU and especially Rock N Roll were actually good songs. They just didn't work out and I don't even think Avril performed them anywhere so you can blame management for those losses. Your lovely promotion plan helped save those gems from failure again. Give You What You Like not being an official single was so dumb as it showed a different side to Avril that I think could have worked for her very well. YASNY isn't my ideal choice for a single but due to your release schedule making the fourth single a spring single, it made the most sense for that springtime feeling. It also wasn't a very nig hit so at least you were realistic.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 1.5/2 Points - Cute how you worked Hello Kitty towards your advantage. Obviously your sales plan is one of the best here so there's no issues there. My problem is her selling 1.2 million copies of the album. She was not coming off a hit era as GL underperformed so it's unlikely for her to sell TBDT numbers without a major major smash like Girlfriend. I think a good 750K would have been more reasonable with sales climate, chart positions, and her previous era in mind. Her WW numbers are fine as despite ATRL claiming she's a total nobody now, she still does decent worldwide and sells more than most others.

= 9/10 Points

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Ethan - Element

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point
4. Revised Tracklist - 3/3 Points - Couldn't you have at least taken Chad off of Let Me Go?
5. A Single-Release Plan - 3/3 Points - I really liked going through each single. I respect the choices you made, even if Here's to Never Growing Up is the worst song this side of Brandy's discography.
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 2/2 Points - Perhaps a bit optimistic, considering Avril is a nobody, but I'm sure Yvess would be thrilled!

= 10/10 Points Why is she famous?

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Yvess - Element

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - if I could give more than 1 point, I would. Im so slayed with the cover and the accompanying graphics.
4. Revised Tracklist - 3/3 Points
Perfect. Beautiful. As an Avril stan, I hated AL sometimes but what made me like your tracklist is that you balanced the upbeat avril with the ballad avril.

5. A Single-Release Plan - 3/3 Points
First of all, HTNGU and RnR are goodsingle choices, if only Epic pushed it further just like what you did. GYWYL is a sure hit if marketed properly and I envisioned its success with your plan. Finally, slay for picking YASNY as the era closer. It makes the listeners aware that Avril still more inside of her that we should anticipate on her next albums.

6. An Album-Sale Plan - 2 Points
I am impresed with not only the formatting, you made every stats, promo slots and sales very detailed that made me wish Avril did have that kind of album release plan. Great job Elliement!

= 10/10 Points

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Mario - Element

1. Artist + Album Title - .5 Points
2. Your Name - .5 Points
3. New Album Cover - 1 Point - I guess you made this and the single covers yourself, right? King!
4. Revised Tracklist - 3/3 Points - Perfect flow, choices and order rearrangement.
5. A Single-Release Plan - 3/3 Points - Everything was planned in every little detail. Can I book you as my manager if I ever become famous?
6. An Album-Sale Plan - 2/2 Points - I could've seen the album being this successful, or close, with this plan behind its back, as the songs had a lot of potential. You did a marvelous job, Ellie!

= 10/10 Points

Final Results coming up.

- Dylan

Dylan'

Below will be the normal stats I display every round, only obviously tribe ranks are now nonexistent so it will only include the current round rank as well as the overall rank.

Then Tribal Council will commence as usual which all 8 of you will be attending.

R14 Rank:

1. Element - 9.8 - +1
2. Bloomers - 9.7 - +3
3. Golden - 8.6 - +1
4. Ivory. - 8.4 - -3
5. T-Swizz - 8 - +3
6. Ares - 7.9 - +3
6. Guero - 7.9 - +1
8. dwuw - 7.8 - -5

Overall Rank... So Far:

1. Element - 8.96 - =
2. dwuw - 8.72 - =
3. T-Swizz - 8.36 - +1
4. Golden - 8.32 - +1
5. Bloomers - 8.26 - +3
6. Ivory. - 8.24 - =
7. Guero - 8.2 - =
8. Ares - 7.83 - =
9. rl231 - 8.87
10. Rider - 8.55
11. Sebas - 8.53
12. prezli - 8.3
13. Mariah4life - 7.68

Congratulations Element on your second Individual Immunity of the season.

Element is immune from elimination this round. However, the other 7 of you are up for elimination this Tribal Council. Send me a vote with the name of your choice for elimination after deliberation. Immunity Idols may be played but remember you must PM me before elimination or they are invalid. Good luck at your fourth Merge Tribal Council. One of you will become the sixth member of the Jury.

REMINDER:
You all have 24 hours to send a vote in this Tribal Council. If by 11:00 PM PST your vote is not in, I will assume you are voting against yourself at Tribal Council.

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- Dylan

Ivory.

Not y'all dragging me for cutting WooHoo.

I was gonna include it on the album but it didn't flow well with the rest of the tracks so I had to replace it with the ****** Glam.
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Congrats Element

Superiore

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King Ellie snatching even without the Idol!

Stark

Congrats Element!

Yvess

Yaaaas Element! Queen Avril should get Elliement as manager!

Dylan'

Cutting Woohoo is disrespectful to ALL of us.

Ares

The single that got away

OK, guess who got that mhm-mhm nani-nani
In the Mondrian, mhm-mhm, in Miami
Who's Galliano, whip-whip the Armani
When it drip-drip, lick-lick like a Lolly
Or, left from Jamaica, go a foreign pan tour
Jimmy Iovine, Tom Whalley and Lyor
Keep me and Chrissy in Christian Dior
But that was before, or, for you
My name Nicki, little daddy, and you?
You can do anything you put your mind to
Way you French kiss it, "Français, parlez-vous?"
Way you work your tongue can I hire you?

Yvess

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Originally posted by DillonATRL

Cutting Woohoo is disrespectful to ALL of us.

so true!

Stark

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Originally posted by Mario

since you were supposed to transform this into a hit era

was I supposed to do that?

Dylan'

lol i watched this movie

it was actually decent and queen mc was serving sexy

Superiore

SLANDER ha for cutting Legend Woohoo!

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Originally posted by dwuw

was I supposed to do that?

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This round, we're taking a look back at some unfortunate eras by our dear ATRL girls. We're going to help them out and patch the eras up to make them at least decent successes.

Stark

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Originally posted by Superiore

SLANDER ha for cutting Legend Woohoo!

Decent success, which is what Warrior was! Not a hit