Chance the Rapper's 'Coloring Book' is First Streaming-Exclusive Album to Chart on Billboard 200
Re: Chance the Rapper
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 3:37 pm
by Employee
intuition wrote:
wuk wrote:it's impressive that he's done all this with no label
this idea kinda bugs me though.
sure, we all assume no label (in a traditional sense) is telling him how to sound or whatever...but this album was distributed with one of the biggest corporations on the planet, and that exclusivity is essentially the beginning of them deciding that music distribution is changing and streaming will soon be the only option. to think he is an "indie" musician is silly, he surely has all top notch booking agents, talent agents, PR, management, lawyers, marketers that have all been in the industry forever. it's not just him and pat the manager in a room alone brewing ideas. he may have skipped the middle man (major labels), but all major labels have left is radio...radio is dying because of streaming...apple is trying to takeover streaming
Zane talks to Chance the Rapper about record labels and selling records
Re: Chance the Rapper
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 8:53 am
by ChaMerZ
yeaa i'm not feeling this ... at all. i like to think that i have a pretty good signal for how other ppl are gonna take to an album, but this one's been rating pretty high and winning awards and stuff. i really don't get it. & it's not even due to the religious stuff in the mixtape / album.
Re: Chance the Rapper
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 2:02 pm
by samdoom
I think the response is simply a perfect storm of his hype reaching a fever pitch. Between the album being "free," Chance having a standout verse on Kanye's album, and just being focused more on bringing positive energy to people/music/Chicago has critics and the masses on his jock. the album isn't terrible by any means, but it isn't close to Acid Rap.
Re: Chance the Rapper
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 2:16 pm
by Employee
samdoom wrote:the album isn't terrible by any means
