McCartney III Single
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2.7 million YouTube views is not a lot. Taylor Swift's "Willow," released Dec. 10, is over 47 million, and top-selling artists sometimes get hundreds of millions of views.
As for radio, it can certainly help, though it's no doubt a smaller factor than in pre-internet days. Find My Way has in fact been promoted to radio and has gotten modest pickup on Triple A format stations, but it's not exactly burning up the airplay charts. And it seems like the publicity has mostly stopped, so that's probably it.
I'm actually not surprised. As I'm pretty sure I said before, this is typical for older artists: With decent publicity, the old fanbase turns out to buy it the first week, then things drop off. Such is life. Count all the other artists over age 75 who still have albums chart in the top 5.
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Nancy R wrote:
love2travel wrote:
When Winter Comes is also a favorite as it harkens back to happy times, down on the farm and family memories. I also love the acoustic Winter Bird reprise that transitions with the drawn out pipe organ chord. Cool
It even ties up the album with a happy ending, where winter is over and the family flies away into the sun. A great ending in typical Paul style, winter time can be rough and so keep your thoughts on the hopes for the future and sunny days that will be returning. Quite apropos for these times...and something for us to hold on to.
I really love the new video for this song as well, very well done, even to the windmill on the hill and the sheepdog. Did Paul and Linda have a Clydesdale horse?
Not to my knowledge, mostly Appaloosas. Have seen other horses (perhaps Quarter horses) in music videos. I used to have a beautiful sorrel (chestnut) colored Quarter horse in 1992/1993.
They had a Shetland Pony (I think) in the living room picture with young Stella and Mary on the horse and Paul leaning over them. Recently saw a photo of Beautiful stables that they had at a weekend home. There were 9-10 stalls. They must have had numerous horses at that time.
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Bruce M. wrote:
2.7 million YouTube views is not a lot. Taylor Swift's "Willow," released Dec. 10, is over 47 million, and top-selling artists sometimes get hundreds of millions of views.
As for radio, it can certainly help, though it's no doubt a smaller factor than in pre-internet days. Find My Way has in fact been promoted to radio and has gotten modest pickup on Triple A format stations, but it's not exactly burning up the airplay charts. And it seems like the publicity has mostly stopped, so that's probably it.
I'm actually not surprised. As I'm pretty sure I said before, this is typical for older artists: With decent publicity, the old fanbase turns out to buy it the first week, then things drop off. Such is life. Count all the other artists over age 75 who still have albums chart in the top 5.
Hey Bruce...so glad you're back. You're our "Singles' guru compared to most of us. I google McCartney 3 most every day and they said that Capitol has not released a physical "Single" for Find My Way but they are giving "Find My Way" a "single-like treatment" issuing a music vidio for Find My Way directed by Roman Coppola.
Does not issuing a formal single really hurt "Find My Way" chances of getting on the charts or getting any consistent radio airplay. I remember "Come On To Me" doing pretty well on the charts when Egypt Station was released. Now that McCartney 3 is starting to drop down the album charts pretty quickly, does not having a "single" really speed the process.
In googling McCartney 3, I still see very favorable reviews on McCartney 3. Just yesterday I saw 2 (one from the Pittsburgh area and one from Oregon) and that always helps but these free reviews are not going to last too long. The critics have been very positive on the album but I would think it needs some "chart" action. What do you think?
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Bruce M. wrote:
2.7 million YouTube views is not a lot. Taylor Swift's "Willow," released Dec. 10, is over 47 million, and top-selling artists sometimes get hundreds of millions of views.
As for radio, it can certainly help, though it's no doubt a smaller factor than in pre-internet days. Find My Way has in fact been promoted to radio and has gotten modest pickup on Triple A format stations, but it's not exactly burning up the airplay charts. And it seems like the publicity has mostly stopped, so that's probably it.
I'm actually not surprised. As I'm pretty sure I said before, this is typical for older artists: With decent publicity, the old fanbase turns out to buy it the first week, then things drop off. Such is life. Count all the other artists over age 75 who still have albums chart in the top 5.
Thanks for the input Bruce. I thought 2.7 million views was not bad especially for older artist but in comparsion to Taylor Swift it is next to nothing. I never expected "McCartney III" to stay in the charts long but I was hoping it had a little more "legs" than his other recent albums due to the critical acclaim and publicity. The thing that gets me is people will still flock to his concerts but never will give his new music a chance. At this point, I am satisfied with the critical acclaim for the most part by the critics. Finally, I am pleased to say that my brother who is a major Beach Boy fan (Brian Wilson) and never bought a McCartney record ever bought "McCartney III" - yeah !!
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love2travel wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
love2travel wrote:
When Winter Comes is also a favorite as it harkens back to happy times, down on the farm and family memories. I also love the acoustic Winter Bird reprise that transitions with the drawn out pipe organ chord. Cool
It even ties up the album with a happy ending, where winter is over and the family flies away into the sun. A great ending in typical Paul style, winter time can be rough and so keep your thoughts on the hopes for the future and sunny days that will be returning. Quite apropos for these times...and something for us to hold on to.
I really love the new video for this song as well, very well done, even to the windmill on the hill and the sheepdog. Did Paul and Linda have a Clydesdale horse?
Not to my knowledge, mostly Appaloosas. Have seen other horses (perhaps Quarter horses) in music videos. I used to have a beautiful sorrel (chestnut) colored Quarter horse in 1992/1993.
They had a Shetland Pony (I think) in the living room picture with young Stella and Mary on the horse and Paul leaning over them. Recently saw a photo of Beautiful stables that they had at a weekend home. There were 9-10 stalls. They must have had numerous horses at that time.
Just saw this yesterday after I posted:
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Yankeefan2 wrote:
Bruce M. wrote:
2.7 million YouTube views is not a lot. Taylor Swift's "Willow," released Dec. 10, is over 47 million, and top-selling artists sometimes get hundreds of millions of views.
As for radio, it can certainly help, though it's no doubt a smaller factor than in pre-internet days. Find My Way has in fact been promoted to radio and has gotten modest pickup on Triple A format stations, but it's not exactly burning up the airplay charts. And it seems like the publicity has mostly stopped, so that's probably it.
I'm actually not surprised. As I'm pretty sure I said before, this is typical for older artists: With decent publicity, the old fanbase turns out to buy it the first week, then things drop off. Such is life. Count all the other artists over age 75 who still have albums chart in the top 5.
Thanks for the input Bruce. I thought 2.7 million views was not bad especially for older artist but in comparsion to Taylor Swift it is next to nothing. I never expected "McCartney III" to stay in the charts long but I was hoping it had a little more "legs" than his other recent albums due to the critical acclaim and publicity. The thing that gets me is people will still flock to his concerts but never will give his new music a chance. At this point, I am satisfied with the critical acclaim for the most part by the critics. Finally, I am pleased to say that my brother who is a major Beach Boy fan (Brian Wilson) and never bought a McCartney record ever bought "McCartney III" - yeah !!
Most of the people that go to Paul gigs probably haven't bought anything since the early 80s if you're lucky or are just Beatle/Wings fans. Love2travel who's a friend of mine is always bemoaning the fact Paul sells Rusty and Brian CDS at his gigs but not his latest album, which is a little odd, to say the least. I feel plenty of fans that jumped ship are missing out on plenty of good to great stuff, especially since Flaming Pie in 97.
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BOYCIE wrote:
Yankeefan2 wrote:
Bruce M. wrote:
2.7 million YouTube views is not a lot. Taylor Swift's "Willow," released Dec. 10, is over 47 million, and top-selling artists sometimes get hundreds of millions of views.
As for radio, it can certainly help, though it's no doubt a smaller factor than in pre-internet days. Find My Way has in fact been promoted to radio and has gotten modest pickup on Triple A format stations, but it's not exactly burning up the airplay charts. And it seems like the publicity has mostly stopped, so that's probably it.
I'm actually not surprised. As I'm pretty sure I said before, this is typical for older artists: With decent publicity, the old fanbase turns out to buy it the first week, then things drop off. Such is life. Count all the other artists over age 75 who still have albums chart in the top 5.
Thanks for the input Bruce. I thought 2.7 million views was not bad especially for older artist but in comparsion to Taylor Swift it is next to nothing. I never expected "McCartney III" to stay in the charts long but I was hoping it had a little more "legs" than his other recent albums due to the critical acclaim and publicity. The thing that gets me is people will still flock to his concerts but never will give his new music a chance. At this point, I am satisfied with the critical acclaim for the most part by the critics. Finally, I am pleased to say that my brother who is a major Beach Boy fan (Brian Wilson) and never bought a McCartney record ever bought "McCartney III" - yeah !!
Most of the people that go to Paul gigs probably haven't bought anything since the early 80s if you're lucky or are just Beatle/Wings fans. Love2travel who's a friend of mine is always bemoaning the fact Paul sells Rusty and Brian CDS at his gigs but not his latest album, which is a little odd, to say the least. I feel plenty of fans that jumped ship are missing out on plenty of good to great stuff, especially since Flaming Pie in 97.
Not selling his latest album is more than odd (lol), it is absolutely stupid. I really wonder about his management team sometimes.
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Hey BOYCIE! Welcome back! Long time no see you here!
P.S. Totally agree with you!
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Nancy R wrote:
Hey BOYCIE! Welcome back! Long time no see you here!
P.S. Totally agree with you!
Hey Nancy!
When I joined up here in 2007 it was all new and I was loving it, I think I got to the point where there was so much bitchiness over having differing opinions that I got out. I'm by no means a shrinking violet and I can stand my ground but unlike sports. we're supposed to be on the same side and I think it started to get unseemly and childish. Also, now there's so many Macca facebook pages now and podcast fb pages etc I spend any McCartney time there, though of course fans overstepping the mark is still around. The good thing that came from the maccaboard is I have a few friends I made in the early days and 13 years down the line they still are, especially love2travel who's one of my dearest friends now. She was due to see McCartney again with me in Lille in May but of course, COVID buggered that up. All is well, hope all is well with you?
McCartney III is great by the way, though you're not keen?
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Welcome back Boycie and I agree with you 100% on McCartney 3. It continues to grow with me.
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BOYCIE wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
Hey BOYCIE! Welcome back! Long time no see you here!
P.S. Totally agree with you!
Hey Nancy!
When I joined up here in 2007 it was all new and I was loving it, I think I got to the point where there was so much bitchiness over having differing opinions that I got out. I'm by no means a shrinking violet and I can stand my ground but unlike sports. we're supposed to be on the same side and I think it started to get unseemly and childish. Also, now there's so many Macca facebook pages now and podcast fb pages etc I spend any McCartney time there, though of course fans overstepping the mark is still around. The good thing that came from the maccaboard is I have a few friends I made in the early days and 13 years down the line they still are, especially love2travel who's one of my dearest friends now. She was due to see McCartney again with me in Lille in May but of course, COVID buggered that up. All is well, hope all is well with you?
McCartney III is great by the way, though you're not keen?
BOYCIE is back!!! So good to see you here dearest friend
Happy to see that Rockdown has given you some more time to spend with music instead of work! Looking forward to the day we can resume our concert travels and share a Kopparberg Cider at the Pub,
and then nip over to get a Bakewell! Cheers L2T x
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B J Conlee wrote:
love2travel wrote:
Whilst I truly love every song, Find My Way (and that great video) and The Kiss of Venus are my top faves this week...the harpsichord gives them a great sound IMHO.
Also liking Deep Down and it's boozy party atmosphere (great video too)
When Winter Comes is also a favorite as it harkens back to happy times, down on the farm and family memories. I also love the acoustic Winter Bird reprise that transitions with the drawn out pipe organ chord. Cool
It even ties up the album with a happy ending, where winter is over and the family flies away into the sun. A great ending in typical Paul style, winter time can be rough and so keep your thoughts on the hopes for the future and sunny days that will be returning. Quite apropos for these times...and something for us to hold on to.
I really love the new video for this song as well, very well done, even to the windmill on the hill and the sheepdog. Did Paul and Linda have a Clydesdale horse? Really loved how they held hands and flew into the sun at the end.
I agree with you totall on McCartney 3. Love all the songs you mentioned. I think the album has very good variety. I'm not a big lover of the heavier metal genre but I also love "Slidin". I think it has just the right amount of the solo electric guitar. Great song in my opinioin. Like the lyrics and Paul's singing as well.
Great point about "Slidin" BJ and yes its a great variety of songs. Just enjoying the entire album and Paul's singing as well.
Soooo Since England is back on Rockdown...hope Paul is near a bunch of his musical instruments and Mary and her great cooking is also nearby. Can we get lucky again...fingers crossed!!!!
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BOYCIE wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
Hey BOYCIE! Welcome back! Long time no see you here!
P.S. Totally agree with you!
Hey Nancy!
When I joined up here in 2007 it was all new and I was loving it, I think I got to the point where there was so much bitchiness over having differing opinions that I got out. I'm by no means a shrinking violet and I can stand my ground but unlike sports. we're supposed to be on the same side and I think it started to get unseemly and childish. Also, now there's so many Macca facebook pages now and podcast fb pages etc I spend any McCartney time there, though of course fans overstepping the mark is still around. The good thing that came from the maccaboard is I have a few friends I made in the early days and 13 years down the line they still are, especially love2travel who's one of my dearest friends now. She was due to see McCartney again with me in Lille in May but of course, COVID buggered that up. All is well, hope all is well with you?
McCartney III is great by the way, though you're not keen?
I need to listen to it more. Not as keen about it as Egypt Station or NEW, though. I've been sick with Covid (read my account in Covid thread) and tomorrow is my last day of quarantine. Today is my twins' 34th birthday and won't be able to see them, plus my son has come down with cough, cold and got tested yesterday. Results in several days. My rapid test was + on the 5th, but still don't have results of regular test.
You take care! You're on lockdown in U.K. right?
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B J Conlee wrote:
Welcome back Boycie and I agree with you 100% on McCartney 3. It continues to grow with me.
Thanks, BJ.
McCartney III is a double-edged sword with me as my 15 year old nephew was murdered on June 18th Paul's birthday, oh the irony, and because of the pandemic and being out of school he was killed. McCartney III being recorded because of COVID 19 is a very conflicting listen, to say the least, no pandemic no McCartney III, no pandemic no family tragedy. Obviously in reality I wish it wasn't made as we all across the globe would be leading normal lives and certain horrific events would never have occurred. Stepping away from the gloom and doom, I do think McCartney III is a very good album and Find My Way the obvious single, whatever that is these days for older artists.
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^ So very sorry to hear this Boycie!
My condolences to you and his family.
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I need to listen to it more. Not as keen about it as Egypt Station or NEW, though. I've been sick with Covid (read my account in Covid thread) and tomorrow is my last day of quarantine. Today is my twins' 34th birthday and won't be able to see them, plus my son has come down with cough, cold and got tested yesterday. Results in several days. My rapid test was + on the 5th, but still don't have results of regular test.
You take care! You're on lockdown in U.K. right?
Nancy R
We're are back in Rockdown to quote some unknown artist.
Well, my Dad who's at home dying of three cancers managed to be sent home from the hospital with COVID just before Christmas, luckily for him and my Mother she didn't get it and he didn't pass it on. Fortunately, he had no symptoms and it didn't have an effect on him at all which at 82 I thought would. They're both negative as of this date.
Hopefully, things will get better at your end too.
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^ Boycie, sorry to hear about your dad, but at least he was asymptomatic and nobody else got it. My 90 year old mom who lives with me has no symptoms, so my doctor said not to get her tested. My son developed cough and head cold 4 days ago so he got tested Saturday. His girlfriend is asymptomatic but got tested Sunday. She just had surgery on the 6th and the stupid hospital did not even test her at all! At my hospital I had to be tested in Aug. and Oct. before each of my cataract surgeries!
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Nancy R wrote:
^ Boycie, sorry to hear about your dad, but at least he was asymptomatic and nobody else got it. My 90 year old mom who lives with me has no symptoms, so my doctor said not to get her tested. My son developed cough and head cold 4 days ago so he got tested Saturday. His girlfriend is asymptomatic but got tested Sunday. She just had surgery on the 6th and the stupid hospital did not even test her at all! At my hospital I had to be tested in Aug. and Oct. before each of my cataract surgeries!
Can't believe they are NOT testing you in the hospital!! Did you get the flexible lenses and how is your vision now? Hope your Mom is OK and your son's test comes up clear
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love2travel wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
^ Boycie, sorry to hear about your dad, but at least he was asymptomatic and nobody else got it. My 90 year old mom who lives with me has no symptoms, so my doctor said not to get her tested. My son developed cough and head cold 4 days ago so he got tested Saturday. His girlfriend is asymptomatic but got tested Sunday. She just had surgery on the 6th and the stupid hospital did not even test her at all! At my hospital I had to be tested in Aug. and Oct. before each of my cataract surgeries!
Can't believe they are NOT testing you in the hospital!! Did you get the flexible lenses and how is your vision now? Hope your Mom is OK and your son's test comes up clear
She had her surgery somewhere in or near Chattanooga, TN. I had my cataract surgery (with PanOptix lenses - I don't think they're flexible, but I paid extra for them so now I don't need readers at all and can see perfect near or far!) at my former place of employment in the city where I live in GA. They require Covid tests prior to surgery.
P.S. My son was Negative! They think he has mild bronchitis so gave him a prescription for antibiotics. Mom is still fine, as is everyone else. My kids' dad had a test today even though he is asymptomatic.