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Old 08-03-2020, 08:18 PM
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Those were the days!

I don't know if they could repeat a similiar success once again...even if Jon could still sing and if Richie was still in the band.
What they did back then was promo, promo, promo. When we worked on the Crush tour for our touring website we had as many promo shows/appearances as we had tour shows. The Crush Tour wasn't very long, yeah, but still the amount of promo gigs and appearances they made was insane. And to me that was part of their success they had in the early 2000s. After Bounce they did lesser promo for every record. It was still enough for their casual fans to buy the albums. But it was after Bounce where the mistakes have been made with them (Jon) thinking that they don't need to promote their stuff that much anymore to get some new audience. They rested on their laurels way too much.
Couldn't agree more with this assessment. They did less and less as the internet grew and radio shrank but didn't really replace the amount of promo with another medium, they just just kind of....stopped! Like a lot of labels I feel like they took too long to adapt to new technology.
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