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Twitter: Jasonklpn
Good morning everyone! Sorry to everyone who received a sexual spam DM from my account. My account had been hacked into. Again, so sorry. Also, am I the last one two know that Danny’s 2nd single was officially released, “It’s Only?” I noticed the announcement on my Face Book page. Gotta run. Miss you all.
Jason
Morning all!! I hope you all had good weekends, whatever you were doing!
JASON – sorry to hear about your Twitter account and also hope your health is improving?
PAM– your trip to ‘ Shutter Island’ sounded very interesting.
SHIRL – loved your post yesterday at 4.48pm & DEE at 6.47pm – totally agree with you both!!
I was just thinking about the promotion side of Danny. I would expect that he would appear on ‘Ellen’ & ‘Oprah’ either on the run up or when his cd is released. Maybe it will tie in with his concert tour – all I know is there are always reasons for what management do – after all they know what they are doing?
Also – I know we all get impatient for Danny to be here, there & everywhere but I really feel this will be a ‘slow’ process which I think is the best way to go.
I know each person is marketed differently and that’s ok – but Danny will be fine I am sure of that
Can I just share something with you? There is a 4 piece boy band in the UK who came 2nd in ‘X Factor 2008’ called ‘JLS.’
They have gone on to now become very successful, winning 2 BRITS at the Brit awards this year. Lady Gaga won 3 and she is already a world wide star!!
Can you imagine this band’s future as time goes on and all their hard work pays off?
I totally agree it doesn’t always pay to ‘win’ a major competition and be promoted so heavily.
It was a year after Leona Lewis won the ‘X Factor’ in 2006 before she released her first single ‘Bleeding Love’ here in the UK.
So there you have it, just my contribution to a discussion that often crops up and I usually do not have the time to join in
I am so happy to be part of this journey or train ride – hey bosman?!
I may have to hop off now and again but am in for the long haul!!
Good morning! I’ve been MIA this weekend but here I am. I spent this weekend reading “The Grassy Knoll” thread at TWOP about season 8–fascinating! Lots of hater posts though, so be warned. I posted more about it last night and I think Pam posted the link.
It’s Only is the second single? Hmmm. I love that song even more than MBD but is that really the best choice? I would have thought Tiny Life or IWNSGB. I wonder why that was chosen. Will there be a video?
That’s a beautiful picture of Danny today. Toodles!
Actually FOGS posted the link to the Grassy Knoll, here it is again.
http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?s=631c770a7664d68b59cce4f462b402c4&showforum=484
Thanks, FOGS! Also thanks for venturing into the snake pit when no one else dared.
Twitter: Owlki
Hello peeps!
I really don’t think ‘It’s Only’ is the second single. Too soon to release a new single, they’re still working on promoting MBD. For me, the IdolNews person (a blog, mind you, a site that is NOT officially linked to American Idol in any way and that, usually, is FAAAAAR behind when delivering news) just noticed that there’s another song on Danny’s YouTube or MySpace and thought to himself “Oh, that’s the second single! I’m gonna post about it!”
As I told Rachel, I can go and post on the main page that ‘I Will Not Say Goodbye’ will be the next single. That doesn’t make it true, though. Until I see it posted somewhere official, I won’t believe it.
Today I finally saw the GAC’s Headline Country episode that talked about St. Jude. Cute.
I had more things to say but don’t remember right now. I guess it’s time for bed. LOL…
Twitter: Jasonklpn
News source was from myidolnews.com. On that page says it was announced on Danny’s official website although as of right nothing new is updated on the official website. Check out the other website quick…..states it right on there!
Jason
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
Aw Erika, cute picture, he has such a pretty complexion. And the twinkly eyes thing going on. Cute.
Jason, of course I don’t know the real scoop but my impression is that a blogger noticed that “It’s Only” is on the web and made an assumption there. I could be wrong. But Danny mentioned very recently that the label was looking at “I Will Not Say Goodbye” as the next single, and he sounded to me as if he liked that idea. People have LOVED that song, and now that I think about it, I don’t think I’ve heard him do “It’s Only” in awhile. I know he loves it so it’s possible it could be the next single (or a future one), but it seems unlikely that it will be the next one.
This morning on the 7 day chart, Danny is at #40 and +52 spins over last week.
This is radio station add day, so I hope to see good news there. We know about the one he got over the weekend, I think it was Dani that mentioned that he got Johnson City VA (a monitored station).
Twitter: Owlki
Yeah, Josie, I don’t even follow IdolNews anymore. They are really slow and sometimes inaccurate.
The picture is courtesy of Darla. I love her pics, they are usually gorgeous. We both agree that the subject helps a lot, though. LOL!
I updated that add that Dani mentioned on the spreadsheet. Let’s hope he gets more adds.
Ok, really bed time now. I have a looooong 8 day week this week till my day off comes… luckily, 5 days are gone. 3 more days…
Have a nice day, peeps!
Twitter: LuluGokey
Morning ihrties~~~~ Sorry I haven’t been around for some days. My holiday’s over and have a lot of works to do… I miss you all~~~~
I don’t believe that myidolnews too. It doesn’t update news as frequentely as other sites, whoever runs that site probably have no idea that Danny has that song from long time ago…
Josie, the data on mediabase hasn’t been updated yet. That’s yesterday’s figure.
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
Good, I was hoping so lulu, that means he’s back in the top 40 countdown for last week. Yay to that! I thought that the Sunday night version was supposed to represent it for the week, but not sure.
Erika, I hope they take it easy on you at work. I noticed that you are picking up the adds from the posts so didn’t send an email last week, but I’ll continue to check to make sure that the file is in synch with what mediabase says and let you know if I ever notice anything different.
Hi everyone.
Danny is currently #38 on the 7 Day Rolling chart up 152 spins for the week. The countdown shows really helped him out.
.
Twitter: LuluGokey
Yes Josie, he’s #40 on the published chart! Yayy~~~
Twitter: LuluGokey
FOGS that’s great news!! But I’m a little bit worried that he won’t have countdown next week, and that could make him lose some spins…
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
FOGS that’s great! And I hope that being on the countdown shows will help drive requests too, especially for stations that haven’t added his song but would have played it on the syndicated countdown show.
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
lulu, if he gets some good adds today that could make up for it, I think. Hope so anyway!
Twitter: steph6449
Glad to hear about the charts.
I sent a tweet and posted a comment to that IdolNews site, really seems they are just wrong. Not sure how many people read that but not helpful to cause confusion with Danny’s album just about to come out.
Saw this in my email from the DC station WMZQ — no time given but at least it pins down the location for anyone who may be interested to go. Believe the date is March 1st
Meet Danny Gokey! (former American Idol Finalist) @ Best Buy in Woodbridge, VA where you’ll be able to purchase his CD & he’ll sign it!
ALL BEFORE ANYONE ELSE IN THE COUNTRY!!!
Glad to see Danny made it to the top 40 on the published chart and is up to #38 on the rolling chart today. I think he will move up a spot or two on Billboard this week because two or three songs should go recurrent.
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
I guess the adds would need to be next week, to offset not being on the countdown shows this weekend, wouldn’t they. But that’s ok, today would be good too.
Twitter: steph6449
I felt a lot better about the countdown spins when someone said the reporting period is Sunday to Saturday. So if that’s the case, Danny would only get credit for Saturday this time, and even though he dropped out of the top 40 last week he’d still get credit for next week’s chart for the countdown spins yesterday.
And although he wouldn’t have any countdown spins next weekend, he should have them the following Saturday. So each of those weeks he would have one day of countdown spins. Only when he’d have two back-to-back weeks on the chart would he get two days credit. And he’d have to drop out of the top 40 two weeks in a row to lose credit completely. (…my head hurts…)
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
Oh my gosh steph my head is spinning. I am going to have to start a notebook, or something.
I guess the important thing is that he’s doing great. Top 40 hit and the album hasn’t even dropped yet. In the video countdown shows. National promo coming up. Happy days!
steph, is it you who follows Mallary? I saw she got 3 adds this morning for her new song.
Twitter: steph6449
brian mansfield on the airplay. he has Danny as #40 on the country chart and almost 900 spins. not sure why his spins always look so high, maybe he has data from unmonitored stations? danny’s #29 on his “idol airplay” ranking, up two spots from last week.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/idolchatter/post/2010/02/idol-airplay-pants-on-the-chart-pants-on-the-chart/1?csp=34
good mornin everyone.
i just read that Chris Golightly is writing a book about his life and it should be out in the fall. i wonder why he was disqualification? didn’t say much about it.
you can read it here via http://ow.ly/1p6bli
sounds like todirck hall is in hot water.
American Idol took its show to Dallas last night, where it encountered a few contestants with moving personal stories (one overcame cancer, another struggles with Tourette’s Syndrome) and one with a controversial background.
Todrick Hall, a 24-year old from Arlington, Texas, wrote an original song for his audition and impressed all four judges.
He’s a budding playwright who appeared with Fantasia in The Color Purple; had a small role in High School Musical 2; and wrote, choreographed and directed a Nashville show called “Oz, the Musical.”
But that’s where the controversy comes in: as chronicled by a local Tennessee station, Hall was the alleged mastermind behind a plot to fool families into paying for a play that was never actually in production, at least according to some sources.
In June 2009, parents brought their children to the Tennessee Performing Arts Center to audition for this remake of The Wizard of Oz. Its website billed former Idol star Diana DeGarmo as playing a role in it. But after shelling out $75 for costume fees, the families were told the play was canceled – and their money would not be refunded.
Hall said producers simply ran out of funds, but no local theater had been reserved for the event. Moreover, DeGarmo had no knowledge of the Nashville production.
It sounds a bit shady, but there’s often a lot of behind-the-scenes details to these stories. Check out Hall’s performance on Idol below and keep your eyes this contestant. He may be in the news for a variety of reasons in the near future.
via http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2010/01/todrick-hall-controversial-contestant-on-american-idol/
Twitter: pjgvet
Those countdowns really do help don’t they. That is the big jump I think to moving up. I really hope he gets some good adds the next two weeks to keep him in the top 40, then album PR can hopefully take over from there. I can see how just Sundays countdown helped him be up 150 spins just for one day.
I would highly doubt that his management would release Its Only now- 1 week before album release? That would be a very strange move IMO. Plus, he doesn’t even sing that song anymore- you can tell he has taken over singing more crowd pleasers (Its Only is beautiful but I fully agreed with the decision to replace it; just not a “single” kind of song). And I’ve heard him say twice now in interviews that they are considering IWNSGB for second single. And I’m sure they will give MBDAAOM more time- its in the top 40 and only on the charts (I think Steph said yesterday) 10 weeks and hasn’t even been down spins yet, so that would be a strange move indeed.
Twitter: steph6449
Danny got an add from PCCO-FM CC Premium Choice, not sure what type of station that is
Twitter: steph6449
and MBD is doing well on GAC and CMT, so yeah, that would seem odd esp with the album just now coming out. or not even out.
pam, although I’m not too big on the spins I think the 150 jump on the rolling chart would pick up both Sat/Sun countdown show plays, as it’s the last 7 days.
it was the other chart (published?) that’s the weekly snapshot report that I meant, since it has a fixed reporting period. may have been Dani P who said it runs Sunday through Saturday.
I’m a little puzzled why Danny is only #40 though, would have sworn that Jason Michael Carroll song should have dropped off the charts as it’s been losing hundreds of spins for a while
it’s either FMQB or WWYZ-FM steph
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
Rachel, there was something about Chris G at mj’s, something about a contract that he may have still been under. I didn’t pay much attention to it, I am not really interested in any of the new batch, yet anyway.
Pam, I’m glad “It’s Only” is off the tour set list, although I love the song. It seems relatively difficult to sing compared to many of the others, and it seems better for him to save his voice for IWNSG, which also seems relatively difficult (to me, maybe not to Danny!) especially when his schedule has him singing really frequently.
Twitter: pjgvet
I can’t keep up with the rolling vs published thing! Thought rolling chart started up again after published (and that is why sometimes Mondays he’s actually down spins), but IDK!
Yeah, those songs above him don’t go recurrent very quickly do they? Or has that Jason Caroll song not been out 20 weeks? Or is the 20 week rule only for Billboard? Too many rules
Greetings Gokey People!
I’m with you all. I don’t see IO being ever re-released as a single, because it seems to me that they test pilot the singles through the DJs, and they have apparently spoken about IO. It’s a shame too, because it is a beautiful heartfelt song.
Thinking it will serve Danny well though, especially in special appearances, because it speaks volumes about him and SHF.
Nice to see Jason, Helio and Lulu back!
We need to hit that 12 pack big time this week!
Twitter: steph6449
I’m not sure if Danny is dropping It’s Only totally off his tour list, maybe he’s just been making room to try out a couple of the newest songs in his live sets.
And for that big crowd at the Toby Keith bar, with probably a lot of drinkin’ going on, I think he was smart to go with the most upbeat numbers.
Danny has several songs that seem pretty difficult to sing to me, though no expert. Tiny Life seems to be a little easier on him than Its Only and IWNSG. Even Back at One is pretty challenging, it has a lot going on toward the higher range. That latest clip is the best I’ve heard Danny hit that one where it goes really high for a bit.
Not sure where this topic last started and/or left off but just to confirm…Shelley from RLM confirmed Danny is not going to the Philippines.
pam someone is moving near me and i’m not happy about it sighs lol why they got to move near me.
Twitter: pjgvet
Josie, I would rather Its Only not be on the tour list too! Its kind of a “niche song” for one thing.
And it is quite difficult to sing IMO; I always am tense when he sings it because I am worried he won’t hit the falsetto highs! But of course he always does.
Agree, Steph, he hits that impossible note quite well on the latest version.
And good morning Maryann, Rach, Lulu, Helio, Jason, Lizzy too!
Hope your back is better, Jason; its going to be a long day March 6 in Milgokey!
Twitter: pjgvet
Amy thanks for that! So many rumors get started; its nice to know things for sure.
Rach, can you really believe what they say?
thanks for that info amy didn’t hear anything about that lol
i’ve been out of the loop lately.
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
Steph, I just meant the current radio tour, I don’t remember hearing It’s Only recently on that. I would guess that he would sing it at least sometimes on his upcoming tour. I remember thinking that I Still Believe was a relatively challenging one, so you’re right, there are quite a few. I’m sure he is the kind of singer that songwriters love, he has such a great range.
I also was also impressed with that Back at One video, the way he shot up into that high range at the end was really impressive.
who knows with them pam.
I think I am loosing it. Just saw a press release at SONY Nash back from 1/25. Said that Danny’s video was being played during AI that Tuesday. Did anyone see it, because I sure didn’t?
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
Pam, was it It’s Only that we had a video of him doing in SLC? He did fine but his sinuses were bothering him and I’m sure the altitude was, because in between phrases it looked as if he were really struggling, and I’m sure we were all thinking “Breathe honey, breathe! Almost done!”. That’s a tough song. I do like it though, the “and she smiles when she sees us” line always gets me.
Maryann
They had meant that Danny’s video appeared on AI’s official website. Though it would have been cool if his video had premiered on the television broadcast of American Idol. He probably would have gotten a lot of exposure for something like that.
Ah-duh! Thanks for reminding me, FOGS. That has to be my dumbest question ever! I was like… What? Never even thought of the plain video debut. I am in serious need of more coffee, and I have been up for three hours!
Just followed up on my local station. That tweet report for yesterday was correct. Danny was played at 7:11 AM on WXTU in Philadelphia. I am anxiously waiting to hear them play it again, and will call in to thank the early morning DJ team tomorrow.
Thanks for the confirmation about Danny’s rumored trip to the Philippines., Amy. I didn’t know that was a rumor. I could see him performing in the Philippines. later on after he’s done with his tour with Sugarland. I wouldn’t be surprised if he did end up performing there some day and getting a nice reception there. He does have a lot of international fans from different countries.
Also I see his album moved up to #2, on the Country Blues music items chart on Amazon Japan:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/bestsellers/music/562050/ref=pd_ts_m_nav
It was ranked #3 yesterday and then went down a little to #4 on that chart. Now it up to #2.
Twitter: steph6449
FOGS, sorry you were right at mj’s
Here’s Chicago radio advertising a promo to see Danny on AI
radiodrew: Last week, Nashville w/ Darius Rucker. This week, you’re off to LA – sit in Danny Gokey’s IDOL seats & watch him perform! Qual @ 6:10p #fb
9 minutes ago from TwInbox
and the San Diego station has started to tweet its promo
CliffandCompany: All this week we're giving away Danny Gokey CD's for our 5:40am Easiest Game contest. If you win, you qualify to… http://bit.ly/d3f4vS
Steph
I wonder if there are other radio stations besides these two that are running contests for people to see Danny in LA? I think that it’s cool that they are running these contests, it does give Danny some promo on their stations. Hopefully someone will announce when Danny will be performing on AI.
Twitter: Upsnodowns
Hi Everyone, I have been offsite since Friday, as Ron was in town and we went to visit my Dad over the weekend. Now I am back to work and back to Danny!
Thanks to everyone for always keeping me and everyone else up to date on the latest. I find I have almost no time to search the internet for details and I know I can always rely on my friends at Iheart to keep me up to date!
I have lots to catch up with at work so may not be able to check back until later.
I am hoping IWNSG will be the second single. If not, then Tiny Life!
Twitter: pjgvet
Hi Cheryl!
Glad you had a nice visit with Ron; is it getting easier or more difficult having him away?
I can’t decide between Tiny Life and IWNSGB (haven’t heard studio version yet)for next single. I would assume they will go with a ballad because MBD was uptempo.
Japan loves Danny, lol! Didn’t they also have his single at #1 on Amazon?
pjgvet
His single was #1 on the Country items chart in Japan on Amazon. I am glad to see the support that Danny gets from his International fans.
Twitter: pjgvet
FOGS, I just looked at Japan Amazon. He’s now #1 for his album
Posted at TWOP!
I really like the live version of “Tiny Life” more than I do the live version of “I will not say good-bye”. But I think that the studio version of “I will not say good-bye” is nice. So I could see the label making that Danny’s next single. Or they could do “Tiny Life”, which I think could be a song that does well for Danny.
Pjgvet
I just saw that too. That is great.
Twitter: Upsnodowns
Hi Pam It’s getting more difficult to have Ron away. But weird thing is when he is here it’s almost like I’m being thrown off schedule. My routine has become different while he’s been away and now when he’s here it’s like a disruption. I’m not complaining though, because I love it when he’s here and miss him when he’s gone! He will be home in March for his Dad’s birthday (when Danny is in Milwaukee and Chicago
) and then home permanently at the end of March. Yay!
Twitter: Upsnodowns
FOGS I like the live version of IWNSG better than Tiny Life, but both are really good. I haven’t heard the Tiny Life studio recording, but the studio version of IWNSG is amazing! There is not a time when I hear Danny sing a live version of IWNSG that I have not cried. It is such a powerful and emotional song and I can’t imagine how anyone listening to it could not relate in some way to the song and be moved by it. I think it will be a huge hit. I think Danny and his label know that the song has great potential to be a major hit.
Twitter: pjgvet
I notice DAnny is down from following 72 to 67.
Wonder who he unfollowed?!
Or if its one of those twitter glitches.
The House of Blues in Orlando, FL just tweeted that Danny will be there on April 10: Here is some more information about that Tweet:
Come to “Danny Gokey” Saturday, April 10 from 8:00 pm to 2:00 am. Danny Gokey Saturday 04/10/2010 Doors: 07:00… http://bit.ly/cAnuJJ
I am glad to see Danny performing at different House of Blues locations.
I just read that Allison will also be performing on this Thursday’s results show in addition to Kris. She will be performing her song “Scars”. That is good for her, she can benefit from the exposure.
http://news-briefs.ew.com/2010/02/22/allison-iraheta-american-idol-thursday/
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
Don’t think this has been posted yet, Danny picked up WBBS in Syracuse, a monitored station, and KKNU in Eugene OR, a non-monitored station.
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
WAMZ in Louisville KY! That’s the best market today, ranked 53. 50% of total stations are in. 69% of monitored are in.
Hi all – Oh…I’m soooo hoping that IWNSG will be Danny’s next single. I definitely could see that as a hit. And he hasn’t tweeted for 2 days now….wondering if something is in the works??? Inquiring minds want to know!!!
Hope everyone’s Monday is going well. We didn’t get as much snow as expected which made driving a lot easier this morning.
Mediabase: There’s no change in the top 10 of the airplay chart this week. The gap between the two top songs — Kelly Clarkson’s Already Gone and Kris Allen’s Live Like We’re Dying — continues to narrow. Adam Lambert’s Whataya Want From Me moves into USA TODAY’s Hot AC top 20 for the first time, and Danny Gokey’s My Best Days Are Ahead of Me returns to the Country top 40 after one week out. The week’s biggest jump comes from Phil Stacey’s Some Kind of Love, which moves from its debut at No. 100 last week to No. 70 this week. AND, General Larry Platt’s Pants on the Ground comes in at No. 83, but it has received more than 200 spins overall. Read more here.
Multiple sources are reporting that Kelly Clarkson’s next single will indeed be “All I Ever Wanted.” It is scheduled to be released to radio on March 9th.
104.3 Myfm: Kris Allen IN CONTROL! Tune in as he takes over the studio next week, starting February 22nd, from 7-8pm Monday-Friday, spinning his favorites! Listen live.
David Cook’s “Heroes” was used in the 2010 Winter Olympics yesterday.
Lee DeWyze has an album out on iTunes right now called Slumberland. It was released in January 2010 under WuLi Records an independent label in Chicago. According to one of the reviewers on iTunes, this is the second album from Lee DeWyze. You can download the songs here.
via http://www.ainow.org/index.php/tidbits/2135-bits-a-pieces-february-22-2010
Should Danny continue to learn line dancing or stay with disco?? lol
Twitter: kiady
Hi ihearties! How’s everyone this Monday?
I’m seeing Danny has a lot of “new” shows 8) great!
Love today’s pic really stunning!
*be right back i’m going to read the comments*
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
Danny has picked up WYNK Baton Rouge LA, a monitored station. All of the stations have reported now. So that’s 6 adds, 5 monitored and 1 not. Great!
Cheryl, I wanted to let you know that I understand what you mean about the strangeness of your living situation. My husband and I have maintained residences in separate cities 3 different times. Once when I was in MBA school, once for his work and once for mine, right before we relocated out here to Seattle a few years ago. It definitely is an adjustment, and you do go through kind of a “re-entry period”. But it seemed to go pretty quickly and then things feel back to normal. I would just as soon not have to do it again though! I’m happy for you that Ron will be home for good soon!
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
Dee, lol, I vote neither of the above! I think he just needs to throw in a salsa every once in awhile!
Dee….I loved the music and dancing the Idols did during
disco Week. Paula did a great job and I was very surprised at how talented they were. One of my favorite group numbers during the show.
Claudia – are you feeling better – my son is still not 100% over the flu yet – been 2 weeks. Just praying I won’t get it.
Getting harder each day to keep up with all of Danny’s appearances!! Good for him!!! His dream…….
Hi everybody
Just a quick drop in. Field work occupies most of my day this week, so I will not be able to vote as nearly as I voted over the past two weeks. I am away from the computer.
Its 21:56 here and all I can think of is bed. I am exhausted and its only Monday. It sucks, but guess I should be thankful for still having a job…..
Have a nice day everybody.
Twitter: pjgvet
Great news about the adds, Josie.
Oh, no we lost our #1 CMT voter, Bosman! We will have to pick up the slack ladies!!
Cori, I was quite happy also that we didn’t get the potential 10″ of snow we might have!
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
Thanks for the “heads up” about the voting bosman, I will put in some extra time. Get some rest and I hope it’s an easier day for you tomorrow!
Twitter: pjgvet
Yes, Bosman, I hope the rest of your week is not as exhausting!
Josie and Ellen; is that Oregon Concert doable for you; in your neck of the woods?
Twitter: JosieInSeattle
Pam, I think it would be about a 4 hour drive for me which I would do, but wouldn’t you know it, it’s the week of my birthday and my best friend’s wife’s birthday (the ones who moved to Sonoma) and we have plans set to go see them and their little boy (believe it or not his birthday is that week too, he will be 3). Danny’s appearance is the day after my birthday, wouldn’t that have been the perfect present to get to see him! But I am heartened by the fact that they’re sending him to the PNW, maybe he will turn up in Seattle after all! At a time when I can see him, of course. He should just call me up and work all this out, don’t you think?
I really hope Ellen can go. I think she lives somewhere in the vicinity if I remember correctly.
Twitter: Upsnodowns
Josie Thanks Josie! Sounds like you can relate to my situation! I hope I didn’t make it sound like I wasn’t enjoying having Ron home. We had a wonderful 10 days and it went by way too fast!. But like you said, I am glad he is going to be back for good at the end of March!
Danny, Def, Brandon and Ivan have all been quiet on Twitter! Wonder if they are practicing with the full band in preparation for the tour? Or maybe for some national appearances like GMA, Regis and Kelly, Idol etc. (and hopefully Ellen and Oprah!)
Twitter: kiady
Jason, i ignored that DM i knew it was a hacker thing
I really hope IWNSG is te next single!!
Cori, oh poor him… what about the infection? is the medication working? Well i think if in 2 weeks you didn’t get it, it would be bad luck to get it now! My flu just lasted 1/2 days was weird! glad i took all those pills that day i recovered really quick from that! But i’m feeling a little sick and my stomach it’s weird lately it’s the second time that i vomited around 3/4 a.m. in one week but then i feel ok, hope the sickness don’t come back again! Keep updating me about your son sweetie, i wish he gets better soon he must feels really tired from this 2 week flu
So today i got back to college, i wasn’t use to wake up at 6:30 a.m anymore but i had to so…
i did what i used to do i listened Danny’s songs on my way to college, by the time i got there i was feeling joyful…his voice sure helped me to wake up! lol
Supposedly my Tuesday schedule was classes from 9 a.m to 6:30p.m. but a teacher said there were this same class on two days half of the class should attend on Monday and the other half should attend of Tuesday i chose the Monday’s class because this way i just have classes on Tuesday around 12 p.m so it means if i don’t have any studying or work to do i can stay on Dannyland longer on Monday’s night becauseI can sleep until later
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Cheryl, no, you didn’t at all! It’s the having them around/not around/around/not around etc etc that’s just kind of a strange thing, isn’t it.
Yes, the guys have seemed pretty quiet, and you’re right, it seems that usually means something is up. We’ll see!
Well, been voting and will make an effort to do more each day this week – got to keep our guy up there!!
Yes Claudia it would be bad luck to get his flu and infection
Take care of yourself – are you sure you’re not getting sick from something you’re eating??? School can sure keep a person busy and occupied but you’re a smart lady setting aside some Danny time! I find it takes awhile keeping up on all the postings here as well as visiting the other Danny info. sites.
Pam I’d be happy if we didn’t get one more snowflake this winter – but that will never happen.
I was thinking of Connie yesterday…does anyone know how she is. She hasn’t posted in a long time.
Twitter: kiady
Cori, today i’m really thinking about that because my Stomach feels weird to me lol
I sure need some Danny time!! I can’t avoid it haha but this Semester looks like it’s harder than the last one so i have to organize my time really well!
i’m going to vote again for CMT
Hey! Just checking/lurking in s always
Good to see Danny back in the top 40 again!!! Hope he gets to stay in there for next week, too.
I hadn’t heard anything about Danny going over to the Phillipines? Glad that rumor got clear up. It could possibly happen in the near future, probably after touring w/Sugarland like someone on here said already. Who knows? Any good news when it comes to Danny is always great no matter what.
Other than that, how’s everyone?
hi ihearties been gone a few days nice to see all that is happening for Danny. Everything is moving forward to the big release day, nice to get caught up and again thanks for all your info about Danny. Looks like he is one busy guy and having fun. With the new shave Danny looks so young and can you say cutier if that is possible?
Really appreciate hearing all the radio stations playing Danny’s MBD’s. I have not heard it on our local station or XM Radio lately so it is nice to hear it is being played somewhere. I have heard Carrie Underwood’s new song and can I say a little tired of it already? Probably because I have heard it so much. So I will be very happy to get my CD of MBD’s. Stay well….
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Hey Everyone, just home from work.
Great news about Danny and the charts !!
Steph about your question about about JMC dropping off, I think he didn’t because his audience impressions didn’t drop off as drastically as his spins so he good for another week I think.
As for the countdown shows, Danny will not appear on the shows next week as he fell out of the top 40 last time but will benefit from the spins from this past Sundays shows because the week ends on a Saturday. Head spinning indeed!!
Brians spin count is high because he includes both the monitored and the non-monitiored spins and Danny was at 872 this week. For those of you with Allaccess logins you can see these by going to Song chart tab selecting any of the repoerts you want to see, then go to panel and choose All stations (us)then choose Get Report and VOILA’.
Twitter: steph6449
Hi all, not sure if this was posted
K102: Come to “Danny Gokey – Performance and Autograph Party” Friday, March 5 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Danny… http://bit.ly/bInIy2
about 7 hours ago from Facebook
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Interview with Danny here in the AI blog someone does for an Atlanta paper
http://blogs.ajc.com/american-idol-blog/2010/02/22/danny-gokey-interview-allison-iraheta-on-this-thursdays-idol/
Here is a video of Danny talking about how friendly people are in Nashville, along with country artists Eric Church and Randy Houser:
http://www.djgreetings.com/entertainment.aspx?entertainmentid=1319715
Josie
I have noticed that usually when Danny is quiet on Twitter, it’s before he announces big news too. I hope that this is the case this time as well. Maybe he will announce this week when he is performing on AI and possibly other national appearances he will be doing.
Twitter: steph6449
Danny is also in this video about the Nashville music community
http://glood.tv/news-politics-videos/country-stars-find-friends-in-nashville.html
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Is anyone familiar with Travis Rush? He’s tweeting about being with Danny at the concert announced for Oregon. (which is a Cancer Society benefit?) Interesting he describes it as an acoustic concert. Not sure if that applies to Danny as well, was thinking by that time Danny may have graduated to not still going totally acoustic all the time.
TravisRush: Hey Portland! Coming home St. Patty’s day to do an acoustic concert with Idol’s Danny Gokey at Bushwacker’s with KUPL. http://bit.ly/aZXg7s
Things are heating up for Danny’s album release – I can feel it. Very exciting
There are those at music pulse predicting that Danny’s My Best Days will be up at least two spots on Billboard this week to #37. I believe that Josh Thompson’s Beer on the Table and Gary Allan’s Today will both drop off the billboard chart making way for Danny to move up.
Twitter: steph6449
Pic of Danny from today here
http://gotcountry.blogspot.com/2010/02/danny-gokey-hangs-out-at-cma-offices.html
Interesting that Allison is performing on AI this week? I thought Kris was due back in, after his Haiti trip. Seems odd they both would be in the same week.
from Michael S at EW:
Allison Iraheta, fourth-place finisher from season 8 of American Idol, will perform her new single “Scars” during the show’s Thursday-night telecast (8 p.m. ET on Fox). A live performance by the red-headed rocker should provide momentary respite for the four season 9 semifinalists (two men, two women) who’ll get the boot during the course of the hour-long telecast. “Scars,” written by Toby Gad and Alyssa James, and produced by Gad, is a ballad from Iraheta’s 2009 debut Just Like You; a rep from 19 Entertainment confirms “Scars” will be the followup single to “Friday I’ll Be Over U.”
As previously announced, Thursday’s episode of Idol will also feature season 8 champ Kris Allen performing and sharing footage of his recent trip to Haiti to raise awareness and funds that will benefit the UN Foundation’s work in the earthquake-ravaged country; that organization is one recipient of this year’s “Idol Gives Back” campaign. Thursday’s telecast will encourage viewers to donate money online and via text-message.
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Comments from that person at Brian’s blog who always posts about country music as if they know all about it. (Anyone know who they are?)
This is the same poster who described Danny’s situation last week as “murky” and heard from a few of us about it, lol.
” Danny Gokey – My Best Days – Danny gains 3 spots this week & gets back into the Top 40 at landing at #38. He had an impressive spincrease & is rapidly closing in on Gretchen Wilson & Lee Ann Womack while no one is coming up from behind at this point. Upwards is the direction for this week.”
Steph
Since they share the same label, maybe Jive thought it was a good idea to have Allison perform the same night as Kris. I have noticed those two have been doing some events together.
Twitter: pjgvet
Steph, did you see that Mighty posted a response to your thread on Danny’s appearance in AI forums:
“Last I heard, he wasn’t going to be on this year.”
I think he’s losing it! Can’t he do better than that?
Twitter: pjgvet
Steph, I don’t think that poster at Brian’s knows that much because they keep comparing the published chart to the floating chart; which I pointed out to them last week wasn’t accurate. I guess they didn’t take note of that
I hope Danny doesn’t have to share his appearance with anyone (unless hes not on, like Mighty said, lol
). They should have him sing two songs then if he is the sole act 
Twitter: steph6449
You know, that was my first thought, too — if Allison and Kris can be on the same night, why not have Danny do two songs
I did see that from mighty, just posted an answer.
I wonder if the Alli / Kris combo night could be a Jive idea. It just seems a bad idea for me that they are running around tied together but they do seem to have been doing radio stops as a pair. I suspect also in Alli’s case, with her weak results so far they may have wanted to get her new single pushed out as well and as early as they can.
Twitter: steph6449
Pam, maybe as the medical professional you should inquire after mighty’s health.
That does seem quite an anemic attempt of his/hers now that you mention it.
Perhaps mighty hasn’t been taking his vitamins or something.
I am interested in seeing what type of boost that Allison gets from her performance from Idol in singles and album sales. That might give us an idea of how Danny might do. I am excited that Danny will be performing on AI, probably next week.
But I am also concerned that might be the only national appearance he gets before his album drops. I remember Adam and Kris getting a lot of national promotion weeks before their albums dropped, and I think it benefitted them both.
Allison didn’t get promotion until the week her album dropped, with stuff like Ellen, Good Morning America, and while that did help her out some, she probably would have benefited more by getting promotion earlier than the week her album dropped.
It’s looks like Danny’s national promotion might not really kick into gear until at least one week after his album drops (not counting AI, which he will probably be back on next week)
Normally an artist highest sales come their first week, but I don’t know how that will work out for Danny. And while I do believe his performance on AI will help him, I’m not sure by how much.
Right now the only people that know about his album, are people who have kept track of his career online and frequently visit his myspace and official site. But that’s not really a lot of people.
Is anyone else concerned about the lack of national promotion he’s gotten up to this point, and about him only having the AI performance as national promotion next week?
Twitter: pjgvet
I’m concerned FOGS, but am hoping he gets a great boost from being on AI!
RCA seems in it for the long haul; maybe they think its wiser to parcel out the PR- they aren’t worried about first week sales, but long term sales?
Going on tour should help too.
Hi everyone!
Such good news on the charts today! This is getting funner and funner
Steph – I was getting cross-eyed trying to follow the “which days spins count for which weeks chart” stuff. It’s great if the countdowns end up helping in two different weeks. The 5 monitored adds today will help, although it seems like some of the stations take awhile to get the song in regular rotation.
I was looking at this chart
http://addboard.mediabase.com/SongAddHistory.asp?startdate=&ob=4
and some of the stations that added MBD, even awhile ago, only played it less than 10 times last week. I hope everyone is still requesting (without overdoing it).
It’s good to see all the promotion coming up. This is going to be great!
pjgvet
I definitely don’t want to worry any Danny fans but I have been concerned for a while about Danny’s national promotion. He can only sell so much without national promotion.
I think that for the most part RCA has been doing a good job with him, but one of the few things that I have been critical about regarding them is the way they have done national promotion for Danny. Which is hardly give him any of it.
I think they waited too long to put his video out there and I honestly think they could be waiting too long to give him national promotion now. I think that he should have national promotion going on this week and even earlier than this week.
I really hope his AI apperance helps him out, but even that might only help him so much. I hope RCA Nashville aren’t trying to put most of their eggs in the basket with his AI apperance.
Kind of like how RCA tried to put most of their eggs in the basket with Adam’s AMA performance the week his album came out.
I definitely think that long term sales are important but a solid first week of sales, would really help Danny. And being that March 2 is his big day and first time releasing an album, I know he would want to sell well.
But he can only sell so much with hardly any national promotion, and I’m concerned he will sell less than Allison, who most people keep saying has really poor sales.
If he sells less than her a lot of people will say that about him. And when his album comes out he would have gotten less national promotion than her. Plus he doesn’t even have a banner on Itunes which could help him out significantly.
Hallo everyone, I`m just dropping in to see how you all are, I always `lurk` even when I`m not up to commenting, or, I haven`t anything useful to contribute!! Bad night with wide awake grandson-feeling the strain at the mo. Anyway- Yes, FOGS, I`M concerned about the promotion or lack of it, Danny is now getting from his label- We now have more stations playing his music AND putting his BIO on their websites-which is great-what is not so good is, they are all clamouring for an interview! Danny gave us the number and name of the guy who deals with promo`s. at Sony-and he hasn`t returned any calls from the radio stations-it`s been over a month- I have someone else trying to `jog their memory!`-but, nothing- Now,don`t misunderstand me, no-one expects Danny to catch a flight to the UK LOL but a telephone interview would be quite satisfactory- Danny`s delighted at the exposure he`s getting-so-should anyone from Sony be lurking here-(well, I can hope..) then PLEASE, get in touch with the radio stations before they lose interest-even if it`s a `No`-
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I’m with you pjgvet, I hope AI lets Danny do two tunes like Carrie did; MBD and I Will Not Say Goodbye. That would be awesome!
Carole
I think that it would be awesome if Danny could do interviews with the UK stations that have been playing him. I think that it’s great that you guys over there have gotten radio stations to play his song.
I do think that he could benefit from doing interviews with those stations.
Billie
I think that it would be wonderful if Danny could do two songs during an elimination night, but I wonder if AI would let him do that? Maybe that something they only let the winner do?
Twitter: jancute
Hello Ladies!!!
OMG – Danny is set to visit here in Virginia??? WOW! I was so thrilled so I looked up to the internet map! it was 3 hour drive from my place… uggh! if I don’t have any problem with transportation… Ill try to convince my cousin again if she wants it and not the hamptons concert… Steph, I see that your an hour away from Woodbridge… are you planning to go???
Danny may appear on Idol during Country Week YAY!!!
Here’s a good reason for them to let Danny do two songs…new single, MBD, and the one Kara wrote, I Still Believe.
GG – when is country week??
Twitter: jancute
Milgokey fan – Im just assuming that cuz you know our Danny is Country so maybe he will show up in Country week… Maybe in the middle of March maybe… YAY! So sad cuz Danny’s number 1 fan is not there
(Paula)
GG – you may be right. If Danny isn’t on next week as was originally leaked, it would make sense for him to be on country week.
Twitter: jancute
Milgokey fan – Yes, I really think so that way, All Idol Country artists appear always on Country Week, well with excemption to Carrie cuz she can appear in any week on Idol… The Good thing is, Danny is performing with a complete band, maybe the Idol Band or his own band (Def, Brandon, Ivan) in full length of his song/s.!!! YAY! I really hope Paula was there watching him on the audience and dancing along with Danny YAY!
Hi Jan, you got my DM about Woodbridge? I just saw VA and thought of you!!
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FOGS, I’m not so worrried about Danny’s national promotion. The booking for programs are tough so they have to go on them when then can not necessarily when they want.
While we want to see thim as much as possible I think we need to look at the promo other Country artists have received before we judge. I do believe Josh Turner only had 3 appearances since his album came out and he’s a known name.
Any apperarance on AI will only be to his benefit and something must be up as he has had to be super seekrit (sic) about it. I do think it must be something special as I can’t see 2 radio stations running contest onnly to see him sing 1 song.
Twitter: jancute
Carole – Yes, I saw it but unfortunately, its 3 hours away from here, I know some ladies here would think that was so easy to go to cuz hey, they even took their time to fly from one state to another.. ughh I want to go there so badly… if that wont work, I would wait for the Hamptons Concert… lets see well never know what will happen
Hello you guys.
miss you all so much, and so happy for danny. Hopefully I can get my album soon . But I guess it will take a while before it gets to me as the distance.
Ellen，if you are here，thank you so much for the video of MBD. Also thanks pam for letting me know it.
All the nice fans of Danny，thank you all for considering us international fans！！！
Danielle,
I definitely hope that things work out for Danny. I am concerned about the lack of national promotion, he’s gotten so far, but I do hope things work out for him. I saw that Josh did pretty well with 85,000 albums sold his first week and he is a much more famous country singer than Danny.
Plus his song has been really high on the charts the past several weeks. I believe it was like #1/#2 on mediabase and Billboard when it came out. I definitely believe those factors helped him out.
Some of the reasons I’m concerned about Danny is because his song has just gotten into the Top 40 and he hasn’t really had much national promotion. I do think that appearing on AI will help him out, but I am not sure by how much.
At this point people’s albums who have been out for several months and are ranked like #10 on Billboard like Darius Rucker and Miranda Lambert are outselling Danny on places like Itunes and Amazon. I’m not sure how much the appearance on AI will help him out,though I do believe it will help him out at least some.
I hope he gets a big banner/advertisement soon on the main itunes page, like Blake Shelton got, I think that would definitely help him out with sales.
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Twitter: steph6449
Dani P, I like your theory about the radio promos maybe meaning more of an event for Danny’s appearance on AI. Hope so, whatever date it occurs. I agree also we need to look at Danny’s album sales in comparison to other (newbie-ish) country artists, and not how it compares against the other top 4 members — especially as they’ve had so much more high-viz promo.
If Danny can rank pretty well on the country album charts, that would be good news.
Someone posted this at mj’s (where they are mostly fighting about Adam again, lol–Ellen wouldn’t like it, he apparently made comments about Susan Boyle). Eeps for Kris
“Doesn’t anybody find it more outrageous that Ken Warwick, exec producer couldn’t think of Kris Allen’s name on E!News tonight?? He brought it up when asked if he thinks a girl would win S9. paraphrasing here “It’s hard to tell, it could go either way. If you woulda told me this time last year that it would be….. um, (pause, looks around)… that winner” someone had to prompt him with ‘Kris.’ “
Hi, is this old news? Danny was at the CMA offices today with a group of Sony execs. and someone from his management, to sing songs from his new album.
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I thought this was kinda funny
http://blog.cmt.com/2010-02-22/jay-demarcus-takes-a-stand-for-small-venues/
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Another country blog picking up the pic from the CMA visit today. I saw someone tweeting from there saying she “heard Danny Gokey in the atrium
” and had thought that his song must have been on radio. But guess it was really Danny himself, lol.
http://www.countrymusictattletale.com/2010/02/22/photo-of-the-day-danny-gokey-visits-cma
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Not to argue but National promo is not all it’s chalked up to be, all of the artists you have named have huge name recogniton and there albums have been out for over a year. Kris and Allison a a great example of this. I think I would almost rater see what Danny can sell on his own than for him to get on all the shows now and still only have modest sales.
This is a business of continuing returns, so consistent sales over many weeks are the goal. All that we can do is to keep requesting, voting and talking up the CD and let the chips fall where they may.
Success outside of the AI bubble is a different album and for most people they have no clue about chart numbers, unlike us.
Steph
I am interested to see how much country artists like Sarah Buxton and Josh Thompson sell next week. I think they are kind of in the same boat as Danny is.
They’re both new artists and while their songs are higher on the Billboard charts and mediabase charts than Danny’s is, I don’t think they have both received a lot of national promotion.
And I saw that their albums are ranked lower than Danny’s is on Itunes and Amazon (even though I think online album sales from Amazon and Itunes are really a small percentage of sales.)
So if they can pull in some decent album sales numbers that would make me more optimistic for Danny’s sales. Even though I will take into consideration that their songs are ranked higher on radio than his is.
As far as album ranks goes, I would like to see Danny debut into the Top 10 Country albums on Billboard. But it might be hard for him to get onto that list.
Especially when #9 ranked on Billboard Darius Rucker is still pulling in numbers like over 16,000 albums sold last week. Tim McGraw sold over 12,000 albums last week and was #10 on the list.
I’m not sure how much Danny will sell, but I think that it could end up being less than Allison, who sold 30,000 and definitely less than some other country acts.
I definitely hope the best for Danny, but I thought I would put my concerns about his lack of promotion out there and see what you guys thoughts were about that.
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Steph, Even I had to to jump into that conversation over at MJs. I tried to resist but it was too tempting.
Twitter: jancute
FOGs – national promotion huh?! hmm What if Danny’s management started to do something out of Danny’s schedule right? National promotions usually done after the album release… Are you worried cuz there is no single TV appearance Danny has on his schedule up to March 2?
Danielle
I think it’s interesting to see how some people like Jay Sean who has a huge hit with “Down”, and who got a lot of exposure for that song don’t have strong album sales. That and also Kris are examples of how a single can sell really well but still not push album sales.
I think that Danny might end up being more of an album seller than a single seller. And I do think that things like his tour with Sugarland might help him have steady sales, even if he only sells a small amount a week.
I do think that things like that tour might help ensure that he is still selling something for a while each week. I think that tour with Sugarland will help him.
Twitter: jancute
Is Danny’s Management/label is too slow to promote Danny or they have their tricks to their sleeves that yet to be shown…???
This twitter silence is deafening. It has to be leading up to something really good, don’t you think?
Twitter: jancute
FOGS – well never know right? what if Danny’s sells his albums alot more that we and others expected right? Its just Danny is taking it slow but surely cuz hes a new artist and taking risks in the real music world is different from taking risks on American Idol…
Twitter: jancute
milgokey fan – danny is silent on twitter. what are you thinking what will happen? its just the start of the week, I don’t know if his schedule for his album release a week before is jampack with appearances or something… Danny surely knows how to surprise his fans and we, each day we’re on the edges of our seats!
I saw that mj had to close down the headlines thread due to the debate that’s going on about what Adam possibly said about Susan Boyle.
And that’s definitely not good that one of the executive producer’s of AI acted like he couldn’t remember Kris’s name.
milgokey and Gokeyguy
I definitely hope that Danny being quiet on Twitter is because he’s sitting on some big news for us.
Like other times when’s been quiet on Twitter and then announced big news.
GG – I don’t have a clue what it could be!
Danny sure seems to have a light schedule this week considering his cd comes out in…only one more week!!! He might be getting a little down time to rest his voice before the hectic promo starts, but that doesn’t seem logical to me. You would think they would at least be doing more radio tours or telephone interviews.
Twitter: Upsnodowns
Hi everyone! Stopping in for a quick minute to ask a favor! Could everyone take some free time to go to US99.5 to vote for My Best Days Are Ahead Of Me as the best new single? This is in the Chicago market which encompasses a wide area of listeners and they have not been playing Dann’ys song much. If we can get his song selected as best new single, hopefully they wiil play it a lot! This is the link and you can vote as much ad you like! Thanks for the help!!!!
http://www.us99.com/pages/3435016.php
FOGS – if it is big news this is the best kept secret yet
Twitter: jancute
FOGS, Milgokey fan – Im sensing that Danny and his band is preparing for the to be “unannounced” TV appearances starting with the biggest morning shows and talkshows after his Album release…It would be a joke if none of this would not happen cuz hey hey hey, you will do whatever it can, use all media to promote a New Artist (like our Dannyboy).!!!
Twitter: jancute
Our Dannyboy knows no secrethiding hahaha!!! Hes so honest he will give us a little clue of somethin somethin’ YAY!
Twitter: steph6449
possibly another appearance for next week, had me confused for a minute but this is actually a California station near San Jose where Danny’s going to be signing at Best Buy – not Indiana despite his twitter name
from station KRTY 95.3
@IndianaAL – our next show ias March 3rd @ the Rodeo Club .. Danny Gokey
21 minutes ago via web in reply to forddude15
http://krty.com/Danny-Gokey-CD-Release-Party-/6418598
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Billboard chart is up:
34 35 17 THERE IS A GOD MCA Nashville Lee Ann Womack 3.122 +0.205 741 36 33
35 39 11 MY BEST DAYS ARE AHEAD OF ME 19/RCA Danny Gokey 2.965 +0.853 681 163 34
36 40 6 THIS AIN’T NOTHIN’ BNA H Breaker H Craig Morgan 2.636 +0.697 666 172 35
Twitter: jancute
WOW! Danny is literally flying from one state to another! that private jet is very useful and will be used so many times! YAY! Can you spell the phrase, “label so confident, supports and trusts DJG!”
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Doesn’t Danny have his big luncheon concert this week for industry professionals?
I am glad to see that Danny’s song is currently #35 on the Billboard Hot Country songs chart.
That’s higher than the people at Pulse predicted. If he should make Top 30 on that chart we will be able to view that on the regular Billboard chart.
Twitter: steph6449
someone posted a pretty rude comment at mj’s if anyone wants to add other remarks to push it down. suppose she got bored not being able to take part or watch the fightin’ in the Headlines thread.
http://mjsbigblog.com/danny-gokey-performs-back-at-one-phoenix-az-video.htm/comment-page-3#comment-586770
I meant to type we will be able to view Danny’s ranking on the regular Billboard site if he should make Top 30 or better. Since that site lists the Top 30 country songs.
Twitter: jancute
WOW! Congrats Danny! YAY! Danny is moving to the charts!!! YAY! (Champagne cork popping) YAY!
Twitter: steph6449
dani p, yay re the Billboard chart
#35 is great.
yes, isn’t it on the 25th for that event where Alan Jackson also will be there? CRS 2010, I think.
That person at mjs is the same person who last week came out of nowhere posting something about how Danny was being usual his dark vile self. In their latest post, they say Danny was “on” when he greeted people on tour, and that turned them off, yet they said he likes people in spite of them thinking he’s a bigot. That post is just another “What The Heck” type of post. It’s ridiculous.
Twitter: steph6449
FOGS, ohhh. I knew that user name seemed familiar but couldn’t quite place it
If that is her, weird they say they like Danny’s voice. Maybe she is trying to sound “balanced” vs. ott crazy-ugly like last week.
Megan’s posted another new song. Didn’t quite follow but saw it may have been played on tv somewhere.
http://www.myspace.com/meganjoysings
Steph
I saw she bolded that nonsensical post just like she posted the other nonsensical post she wrote about Danny last week. Her posts remind me of some of the OTT hate he used to get last year. IMO, it’s ridiculous and random.
But fortunately I don’t think too many people are going to see it, that thread is far down the page on mjs and most other people are in the headline/Adam threads.
Twitter: steph6449
I guess this is good? lol
” Just saw @dannygokey on GAC, not gunna lie, he’s a beast!!
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Twitter: steph6449
FOGS, I’d bet you a dollar that she’s one of those people who have the no-hate logos on their twitter
I hope will all of the new appearances and recent ones last week, we’ll get more videos. Seemed like we got them almost every day until recently, sometimes more than one group a day. Pretty thin the past 2 weeks or so.
Twitter: pjgvet
Poppin in after “24″. Just in time to visit MJs at request (sorry Dee, can’t take the warrior out of me!). Wow, that person is really random in the odd comments. But this is the first time I’ve ever heard bigot and Danny together! Maybe she doesn’t know what that word means
Don’t usually hear of people who have an African American best friend referred to as a bigot.
Yaah for #35 on Billboard! Awesome. Hope he can keep moving up. He certainly has a lot of potential to do so; there are a lot of big stations that can add him still.
I don’t know what to think about the National promo. It didn’t seem to help Allison that much. But there may still be Danny fans who don’t even know he has an album coming out. I think in a way FOGS, that RCA is putting a lot of eggs in the AI basket for initial sales- he was very popular on AI; and they are hoping a reminder of him will spark those people’s interest. Then probably hoping a few TV promos and the tour will keep boosting his sales.
I really have no idea of what to expect. I guess I wouldn’t expect him to be outselling big stars like Darius or Tim McGraw. I would certainly think he would outsell Allison if his fans know he has an album out; he had a lot bigger fan base. Unless of course, many won’t buy it because it is country.
Someone at Brian’s blog (a non- fan )said they expected him to outsell Allison the first week but less than Kris.
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If Lizzy’s around, some progress maybe?
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shows WMQZ with 6 spins last week and WPOC with 3.
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Waiting for the latest news on the Danny front–spending a day at CMT is very good.
FOGs I remain confident that RCA is doing just fine by Danny. The small shows in March and April will make him so ready for the big tour–and the big tour will help with the album sales.
I keep remembering that he warned us when he signed his deal that he was going to learn the ropes. He’s here for the LONG haul!
Night all! Hopefully we’ll see a tweet/PRelease that will explain all soon! Jan
I wonder what Danny’s big news is. He always gets real silent just before he drops a bombshell.
Me has a feeling this news could be his biggest news yet–what with the album being released in a week. A week!
Could it be his Idol performance will be on Idol Gives Back–the highest rated episode outside the finale?
Or maybe he’s going to be on Ellen, Oprah or some other high profile national television show.
remember tomorrow morning danny will be on The Balancing Act” Lifetime at 7am (Eastern time) tmrw am!
Or maybe he really is playing RDJ in a movie about the actor’s life. I would love that to happen even though it probably won’t. Haha.
Goodnight.
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Helio-I hope if he has only one performance its not on Idol Gives Back; I feel like he would get lost in amongst the other performers. Whereas he would have the spotlight more to himself on a results show and closer to album release. Plus people will give all their $$ to Haiti and not his album
Wow, wow, wow. Mr. Bing don’t read this if you’re lurking…
I looked at the link someone gave elsewhere as to what Adam said during an interview re Susan Boyle. They have it in quotes. Ellen will not be happy with him! I didn’t look at that thread, but I can see now what kind of chaos might have ensued at MJs!
Oh, rats. I will be missing the Lifetime show, damn work.
if i remember to be up that early that is lol
You know, I’m an Adam fan (Kradam fans/Danny haters kept insisting we Danny/Adam fans didn’t exist) and forgive me for saying this but sometimes I think Adam says these inflammatory and outrageous things out of left field for no reason other than being…outrageous and inflammatory. He loves the attention it gets him. I doubt it’s part of RCA/19′s marketing strategy for him. Adam loves to stir things up, it’s just how he is. TPTB are probably cringing every time he does these things, wondering what he will do next.
I don’t think he hates Susan at all.
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FOGS – what did Adam say about Susan Boyle? He usually is pretty polished in interviews, can’t imagine what he said to stir so much typing.
As far as the national promo, I’m putting my faith in all these folks behind the scenes. I hope he has a great manager that can get him booked on all the big shows like Leno, Letterman, Oprah, Ellen, Today, etc. etc. Let’s pray that this is the case. The kid has the talent, chops, charisma, and looks to be a superstar. If you’ve ever seen him live, you know what I’m sayin’
Ya know, just a casual observation…a few nights ago at Toby Keiths bar, I think I was the only Asian (I’m Korean) in the room. Outta 500+ people wouldn’t ya know, only little ‘ole me was the stand out. I had flashbacks of growing up in Yuma, Az. during the 60′s being the only Korean in the whole city.
Oh well, I’ve always been the one who was different – I can handle it
Goodnight everyone!
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Pic of Danny in the Country Aircheck newsletter today
http://countryaircheck.com/images/upload/image/library/8.JPG
Caption reads:
Peach Fuzz: 19/RCA’s Danny Gokey does the bus shot with WKHX/Atlanta MD Mike Macho (l) and PD Mark Richards.
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Helio-
Oh I don’t think he hates Susan. Adam is not a hateful person. But he sure dissed her album big time, if those quotes are true.
I wonder what the UK audiences will think of that? Or are they so used to bad boy/girl behavior ala Amy Winehouse , lol
Thank goodness for DVR; I can tape it at 6 and watch later!
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Billie, lol — go girl
Pam, let me add my two cents on the failure of Allison to sell in spite of all the high hopes for her by Kradison fans, saying she was going to be the next Kelly Clarkson/Pink/blah blah.
Allison has failed to sell, in spite of all the national promotion for several reasons, the main one being her fanbase was never large and she isn’t appealing enough in any way to attract fans outside her Idol fanbase, which isn’t that big, unless you include Kradison fans, who just accept her because she is part of that clique. The second reason is she hasn’t been promoted alone, but as the part of the Trinity of Kradison–and as such, hasn’t been able to establish her own identity as an artist or separate herself from Idol. Adam and Kris are both more popular than she is–she’s like the tagalong (and slightly annoying) little sister that everyone tolerates because her big brothers (Adam and Kris) are her devoted big brothers. But alone, I doubt she’d be much of a draw–the dismal failure of her album and failure to have her single chart is proof of this. On her own, she simply doesn’t have an appealing enough personality or look (like Megan did) to attract many fans on her own. Sure, she can sing, but isn’t yet mature enough to pull off being a rocker–she comes off more like a little girl playing at being a rocker. She needs a few more years to mature and practice coming off as more professional and well spoken in her interviews, as well as define herself as an artist in her own right rather than just a copycat. I won’t deny she is talented and has a great voice but right now she’s pretty one dimensional. She needs Kradam to prop her up, but in the end, that’s going to work against her.
Pam–
I bet Adam is secretly crushing on Susan and can’t figure out what to make of it. I say that in jest, but who knows?
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Helio, that was very insightful, well written and I think you have very good points. I loved her voice; but felt her singing was a little too one dimensional and on the tour she was like a little girl playing rock star; too much “hair singing” (as Steph coined the phrase for Bucky, lol!) and stomping about while mumbling and forgetting lyrics at times. I think maybe she is just immature for her age and needs more time to season. I hope she gets it. Sometimes I think she would have been much better off waiting a year or two to try out for Idol.
I think a lot of her sales were from Adam fans helping her out- I can’t support that other than to say I saw them urging people to buy her album on fan sites.
I so hope Danny does better; and good enough to keep his foot in the door! Nashville certainly seems to be accepting of him so far.
I too wonder what “the news” is; unless he is just so busy rehearsing with the “big band”.
Thanks, Pam, I think I’m going to add that post to her thread at TWOP. Some of her fans will attack me for it, but I don’t care. After spending the past three days reading the entire S8 thread at the Grassy Knoll with 99% of the comments about Danny being far more negative than what I just said , I feel no qualms about doing that. I’m not a hater, mind you, just calling it as I see it. I do think she has potential–but needs time.
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Helio, lol! He did make that androgynous comment after all
I know he likes to be outrageous; but poor Susan has taken so much scrutiny and is the object of ridicule many places, I just wish he wouldn’t have said that. He just truly seems like a decent person deep down; I was just surprised I guess.
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Hey — Bucky really does sing with his hair, lol!
Maybe Danny has a week in Nashville, or at least a few days. If he was at the CMA thing today, then will have that CRS convention performance and somewhere in there it appears he would be taping the interview or whatever it is for this week’s GAC top 20 countdown.
I saw bosman’s voting will be limited this week, will have to step it up tomorrow as I slacked today at CMT. I did find though that I can vote for GAC at work (had thought it would be blocked, but nope), and my new phone showed up so maybe that will work. So my vote at least doubles, maybe triples. For the little that is worth, but I guess they all add up.
One more thing. If anyone is going to become a new object of obsession for me, it may well turn out to be Lee DeWyze. I like what I’ve seen so far, and yes, he reminds me of both Danny and DC. I’m not crushing, and maybe I won’t, but I won’t say it can’t happen. I’m looking forward to seeing what he does this week.
I like Andrew and Crystal a lot too.
Do any of you all have favorites yet?
I always did have a soft spot for Bucky. I think Casey James looks like if Bucky and Brad Pitt had a love child, lol. Anyway, I’m glad Bucky has been doing well.
With that, I’m off to dreamland.
Oh, and Didi is also one of my favorites. She reminds me so much of Brooke White.
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Helio, I like Casey James, Andrew Garcia and Crystal Bowersox.
but def. not crushing or really into anyone this year (yet?).
Too attached to Danny, I guess!
Goodnight everyone
I’m not crushing on anyone. I’m just saying if it’s going to happen it will probably be Lee. But I’m still too attached to Danny. I am starting to get into the season more though.
Btw, I’m not really a Susan Boyle fan, but I love her cover of Wild Horses. It’s so haunting. I guess what Adam might be objecting to is that she dared cover a Rolling Stones song, and as a fan of classic rock, it’s probably kind of hard for him to swallow someone like Susan Boyle covering that song, which is why he called it “sacrilegous.” Well, IMO it’s no more sacrilegous than Adam covering a lot of the classic rock he did in S8. So what that she’s not a rocker?
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Chris Sligh is chiming in. AMong other things he comments that Adam has sold fewer albums than Taylor Hicks.
Is it just me or is Lambert just shooting himself in the foot again and again? I haven’t really kept up with it, but all I’m hearing is bad
20 minutes ago via web
The guy has had more mainstream press than any other Idol ever…yet he’s sold less than freaking Taylor Hicks had at this point.
19 minutes ago via web
Granted, I’d kill to sell as many records….but it just makes me wonder what is going on with that…
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The radio dept for his label is working overtime. Not sure why his singles aren’t working, but they’ve spent buttloads of $$$
Not sure…but I would bet good money that if you looked at the books, his label has spent more $ than any other Idol
etc.