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Friday, March 14, 2008

Top 10 Marketing Hits 3/14

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TOP 10 MARKETING HITS
Week Ending March 14th, 2008
10. Dream Theater will appear on the cover of the summer issue of Limelight Magazine for their "New York Bands" special.
9. 3 Inches Of Blood's video for "Trial of Champions" is one of the featured videos on MySpace's A Place for Metal this week.
8. Theory of a Deadman shot their first video from Scars & Souvenirs, "So Happy," in Vancouver last week as label mates, Airbourne took over the streets of Los Angeles and shot their second video from their debut, for "Runnin' Wild" that features a cameo appearance by the legendary Lemmy of Motorhead. Both videos will be available mid-March.
7. Megadeth's Dave Mustaine will play with Dave Navarro for an upcoming episode of Dave Navarro's TV show on Mania TV. The footage will also be used for the second season's opening credits.
6. Revolver is running a Cavalera Conspiracy guitar giveaway contest in their April issue, on sale 3/25, with a coinciding online component. Winner receives an autographed ESP guitar signed by the legendary Max and Iggor Cavalera.
5. Airbourne secures new licenses with a 2nd track on NASCAR 2009 ("Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast") and Madden NFL 2009 ("Stand Up For Rock n' Roll"), bringing their song placement in games total to FIFTEEN!
4. Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy jams on Motorhead's "Overkill" with Overkill's Bobby Blitz and Anthrax' Frank Bello on FUSE's Talking Metal. Episodes airs tonight, 3/14.
3. DevilDriver is destroying on their first headlining tour which kicked of two weeks ago. The band recently shot a video for "Clouds Over California" with director Nathan Cox (Airbourne, Linkin Park, System Of A Down). It is due in-house at the beginning of April.
2. Airbourne GameStop promotion will run for the entire month of April with a 1:30 clip airing on the chain's Channel M in over 4,000 locations. The link to their interview clip will be circulated soon.
And The # 1 HIT for Roadrunner Records for the week ending March 14th, 2008 is...
1. Roadrunner Records hosts its first ever label showcase at SxSW tomorrow! The showcase is sponsored by Revolver, Guitar World and Heineken and features Airbourne, The Parlor Mob and De Novo Dahl. Editorial coverage will run in May issues (on sale April) in both magazines. Footage of the live show and b-roll content will appear on Guitar World's DVD, which comes with every issue. Footage and coverage will also run on both magazines' websites for a month following the event. In addition, all three bands will be interviewed by Xbox. The interviews will be spliced with performance footage and air on Xbox Live which has over 10 million subscribers. De Novo Dahl is also taking part in a "Game For Fame" appearance where they will challenge Xbox Live subscribers to a game of Rockband over the internet.

Friday, January 11, 2008

Top 10 Marketing Hits


10. Within Temptation and imeem.com created an artist playlist where the band was interviewed about each of their favorite songs. imeem created an embeddable widget for it here. The list will be featured on the main page of imeem.com starting the 21st.

9. Roadrunner Records proudly launches The Scrap Yard.
The Scrap Yard is our one-stop location to keep track of and comment on our digital and mobile marketing. Check it daily for up-to-the-minute news of what's going on, or subscribe to the RSS feed to have the news come to you right away!

8. Megadeth announces the exciting line-up for this year's Gigantour - In Flames, Children of Bodom, Job for a Cowboy and High On Fire. The tour will run from April to May.

7. The Cavalera Conspiracy completed their video for "Sanctuary" and a photoshoot in Paris, France this week...stay tuned!

6. On the heels of being named the #1 record of 2007 in numerous UK publications (Kerrang!, Rocksound, Daily Record) Biffy Clyro's Puzzle gets nominated for a ShortList Award (the US equivalent of the UK Mercury Prize). Other nominated albums include Against Me!, Fiest, Arcade Fire, MIA and more. The nominees and winners are chosen by critics, industry and artists.

5. Airbourne will be featured in Spin's 'New Noise' segment in the March issue. The band will complete a photoshoot in Adelaide, Australia today.

4. Nickelback's "Rockstar" comes in at #100 on Rolling Stone's '100 Best Songs Of 2007.'
"One of the best, funniest songs on the radio." - Rolling Stone

3. Theory Of A Deadman complete a stellar photoshoot with Eric Estrada in Los Angeles. See attached image!

2. Airbourne's "Stand Up For Rock n' Roll" will be the official theme song of the WWE's Royal Rumble! The event takes place at Madison Square Garden on 1/27 and will air on Pay-Per-View. The band is also recording the theme song for WWE Superstar Ken Kennedy. Joel recently spoke to WWE.com about the new album, upcoming tour, the band's love of wrestling and what's in store for 2008. The interview will run week of 1/14.

And the #1 HIT for Roadrunner Records for the week ending 1/11 is...

1. DragonForce's "Through The Fire And Flames" debuts at #84 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart! DragonForce continue to tear up digital sales with over 32,000 tracks sold this week and over 145,000 since Guitar Hero 3's release. The track is the #1 requested song at Q101 in Chicago and was added to KOMP in Vegas and KHTQ in Spokane.