Adam Lambert’s Star Power from an industry perspective 46 Media, Audience Fragmentation, Social Networking, Artist Branding

It’s great to see all the support and creativity of people here in anticipation of next week’s Finals! With just a few more days to go, I hope everyone stays focused on reaching out to new voters, maximizing our existing voting capacity (with Go Phones and other ideas from the voting threads) and keeping Adam [...]

Adam Lambert’s Star Power from an industry perspective 45 Top Two! Eye on the Prize, Creative Voting, LA Times, Media, Ratings

Adam’s said it best and I think it’s the mantra: “…you just have to put your force field up to move forward and remember your goal at the finish line. Just keep your eye on the prize and keep moving towards it. Don’t let anything derail you.” What happened last night is now the past, [...]

Adam Lambert’s Star Power from an industry perspective 44 Billboard, Simon Fuller, 19, Voting Threads and Rules, VOIP Voting

Two interesting articles were in the music industry trade paper Billboard today. This article is a Q&A with Simon Fuller (creator and Executive Producer of AI, CEO of 19) and includes his comment about 19 Management and the AI contestants (more background is in several of my previous posts/blogs; as mentioned previously the relationship between [...]

Adam Lambert’s Star Power from an industry perspective 43 ADAM’S STAR POWER Poll Results with your amazing comments!

Amazing results from Adam Lambert’s Star Power Poll! With great thanks to the 100 people who participated in Adam’s Star Power poll, here are your results! While of course they aren’t scientific, I think they provide a fascinating snapshot and hope you will too. Adam is blessed to have such wonderful, knowledgeable fans.
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Adam Lambert’s Star Power from an industry perspective 42 Top 3, Press, Allison Iraheta, AT&T, GoPhone, Voting

Adam is in the Top Three thanks in part to everybody here! It’s amazing and fantastic not only to see him reach such a pinnacle, but also to see the mainstream press’ reaction (he’s on the cover of Entertainment Weekly solo!). His family and friends are so rightfully proud of his success and it’s going [...]

Adam Lambert’s Star Power from an industry perspective 41 FOX, Q Scores, Style, International Voting, Merchandising, Royalties

As Simon Cowell basically said on Ellen today, it’s not a question of “if,” it’s “when.” And for most people here, it seems like the answer is “the sooner the better!” I definitely do not think Adam has peaked, I remember reading Adam and David Cook discussed the “arc” of the show and looked at [...]