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Originally Posted by JackieBlue
That's comparable to "Unbroken" being released on Nov. 1 and the tour being announced on Jan 15; except now they're saying "Unbroken" wasn't the first single from the album. (Not sure how that works. It's from the album, an official video was released, it was on Spotify, and for sale on Amazon - so how is it not the first single?)
The Ellen show included a second release from THINFS ("Knockout") just before tickets went on sale Oct 10. Following that pattern, there should have been a second release from 2020 around the time the tour was announced. According to the Pollstar articles, that was going to be "The Story of Love", scheduled to drop in January, which would have tracked with the tour announcement on the 15th and the tickets going on sale Jan 21/24. All of it would have coincided with the promotion surrounding the Rutgers SK Grand (Re)Opening on Jan 22-23 that Jon had announced shortly before the Pollstar articles were published.
Somewhere in the interim, though, the "first" single was changed from "The Story of Love" to "Limitless"; and, since then, there's been no word about the release of another single or the album. So it looks to me like Jon and Azoff initially planned to follow the same timeline as THINFS; but something threw a monkey wrench into their plans.
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It was never the first single because it was always promoted in association with To Be Of Service. It was never promoted as "the first single from the upcoming album" I don't think and any mention of it was in correlation with the new album.
I think you're right though, something changed. The timing was too close together to when the tour was announced, Rutgers, the Today Show and the rough period the new song was going to come out. I mean obviously it was the lead single changing which probably meant scrapping all the marketing and graphics and appearances etc. It might also have effected the formats they were going to promote it to radio wise.