The Weird Al Says Tweet!

[weirdojace]

Ah, but you dont deny you are an audiophile. I suspected you were

Well I am in college for music production...

[Big Spoon]

Awesome! I'll listen later tonight so I can hear the whole thing at once.

[ludovica64]

This was a really cool, funny video to wake up to this morning. Nice to see some more of Al's place, too. Anyone know who the girl was in the video?

Oh yes I know who she is... well sort of,, She is @MorganJenkins

[Orthography Enthusiast]

Oh yes I know who she is... well sort of,, She is @MorganJenkins

by comparing IMdB and Twitter, I'm assuming she's this Morgan Jenkins? (Heroes?)

[JCM]

DOUBLE POST BUT I DONT CARE: Al just leaked the album. Goodbye spoiler forum

He put a leak of his entire album on Twitter? That seems like the perfect way to destroy a career.

[Teh Dingo]

Tell the Foo Fighters, who only had their first #1 album of their career after putting up their stream.

Or any other artist who's done it or label that's done it, for that matter.

It's great promotion, and helps slow hooliganism in the process.

[Elvis]

The album would have leaked anyway. It's impossible to prevent that nowadays. So Al held out as long as he could then just went with. I'm sure he'd rather the album not leak, but by leaking it himself first, he gets the scoop, the extra publicity, and has control over when and where it leaked.

Dave

[weird_el]

Elton John leaked his last album 2 weeks before it came out last October. It debuted at #3 -- highest in over 30 years. People love full preview streams — it helps more than hurts.

[weirdojace]

I'm glad that people (mainly the industry) are finally starting to see that the internet is a good thing for musicians.

[Teh Dingo]

If not for internet streaming, NO ONE but diehard fans would've known the Cars reunited and put out a fantastic new album.

Thanks to the promotion, top ten. Granted, a beneficiary of the market, but still...nice comeback