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Originally posted by Fenty The Great
Exactly! I can't at these girls acting like Skyfall wasn't predicted to do way more than it did. Talking about no promo
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Predicted by who? Stans of other artists here on atrl? What more did they want it to do exactly? Millions of sales and sweeping all its noms sounds pretty good to me...
And we do mean
no promo. A couple posts on various social media to initially announce, one official "statement" from Adele herself (she basically just said it was an honor to do a Bond theme), and then full simultaneous release to her website and radio at 7:07 EST 10/5/12. In essence it's admittedly not a really radio-friendly song, and, on top of that, there was no music video and no interviews. The woman basically didn't even leave her house until we saw her at the Globes on January 13 of the next year. Despite that, the song not only charted/continues to chart highly globally as previous posts show but also served extremely well at its job of being the main promo for the movie that came out later. I'm sure her labels consider it to be very successful overall, as do the Bond camp who want her back so badly.
Moreover, she's also even better off for any forthcoming singles for an album because she isn't limited to writing to the typical Bond vibe, nor is she in the situation personally of following up a world-slaying breakup album with another one just like it in theme.