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Welcome to Rolling Stone news.

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I'm Kimberly Aaliyah many artists who were hoping to put out

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albums in the spring and early summer are now re-evaluating

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their plants. The releasing an album seems easy in the digital

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era as thousands of new tracks appear on streaming services

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daily, an artist must shoot music videos months in advance

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Rangel TV appearances and locking tour dates and press opportunities

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to be successful without these components in artist risk for

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leasing music to an unaware public and right now and then to covid-19

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pandemic almost all of these profile raising options are Out

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Of Reach last year, the singer-songwriter cavetown signed

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a deal with sire records in the weeks leading up to his major

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label debut. He had developed a detailed roll-out plan Cape

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Town's manager exact Sorella said quote we have pop-ups planned

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in New York Philly in London.

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He painted all the artwork for his album.

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So we had hired out Gallery spaces where we were going to invite

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his audience and to see all the are it's crazy to have these

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things that were hopefully going to shape the next phase of his

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career burned down in one day Cape Town's major label debut

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album sleepy head still came out last Friday with cirilo noting.

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Barry digital audience other artists have taken the opposite

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approach and decided to wait out the chaos members of this group

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include Alicia Keys Lady Gaga.

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Kehlani Willie Nelson The Pretenders The 1975 in Sam Smith

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Antonio Dixon who is written and produced hits for Beyonce.

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And Ariana Grande said Quote The issue is not releasing

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a project. The bigger issue is promotion.

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You can't go to The Tonight Show,

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you can't go radio station to radio station.

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You can't do any of that one class of artist seems unlikely

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to be postponing album releases ask you depend largely on a digital

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fanbase. The voracious dreamers artist started to share news

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a postponement the rapper Rod wave announced that he has recently

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passed a billion stream Mark and will release a new album the

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first week of April.

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