JXN: A release week nightmare | The Industry Observer

On Friday we announced that JXN signed to City Pop records and released his new single. What we didn’t mention was that this release happened a week before it should have.All the plans and set up for the release were set for the song to come out a week later, but in the early hours of morning, the label and artist discovered their record had been released on streaming services seven days before it should have.Drama.It was this stress which inspired me to get City Pop’s Andrew Stone on the phone to share what he was going through on such a dramatic, unexpected release week. It became the first episode for our new podcast ‘How the music business works’.In this debut episode titled ‘Release Week!’, Andrew Stone takes us through how he responded to the surprise release, how the fuck up happened and why, despite the error, the release was a day one success. JXN still received editorial in media and playlist covers on streaming services right out of the gate.We launched the podcast on the new social audio app Callin. The app which was created by David Sacks, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist who I have been…
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