Clear Channel Radio Partners With Rostrum Records To Propel New Mac Miller Independent Album 鈥淏lue Slide Park鈥 To No. 1 On Billboard Chart
Clear Channel Radio Partners With Rostrum Records To Propel New Mac Miller Independent Album 鈥淏lue Slide Park鈥 To No. 1 On Billboard Chart
Roadrunner Records Also Leverages Clear Channel鈥檚 Audience On-Air and Online With Its Own Upcoming Artist Integration Campaign, Unveiling Nickelback Album 鈥淗ere and Now鈥
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New York, NY 鈥 November 21, 2011 鈥 Clear Channel Radio, the leading media company in America with more reach in the U.S. than any radio or television company, announced today the successful implementation of its Artist Integration partnership with Rostrum Records to launch recording artist Mac Miller鈥檚 new independent rap album 鈥淏lue Slide Park.鈥 Mac Miller鈥檚 鈥淏lue Slide Park鈥 sold 145, 914 copies and is the first independently distributed album to top the Billboard chart since 1995.
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Clear Channel continues to deliver positive results with its new Artist Integration Program, and today Roadrunner Records will launch its own Artist Integration Program partnership, a two-week campaign highlighting the latest Nickelback album "Here and Now."
Miller鈥檚 two week-long on-air/online Artist Integration Program campaign featured a series of nearly 18,000 :30 on-air artist profile spots that ran across 102 Clear Channel Mainstream Contemporary Hit Radio (CHR) and Rhythmic CHR stations nationwide, directing listeners to station sites where they could fine more information on Miller. Other elements of the campaign included video streams, custom artist pages, banner ads and online promotions with direct links to iTunes, where listeners could purchase the album. Overall, the promotion delivered more than 90 million digital and on-air impressions.
鈥淥ne of the great features of the Artist Integration Program is how quickly we can generate instant familiarity for a song, separate from airplay. The number of impressions from the commercial campaign is on par with having a song in power rotation for two weeks straight on every key station in America,鈥 said Tom Poleman, President of Clear Channel National Programming Platforms. 鈥淲e're excited to see the results because they so clearly demonstrated our unique ability to bring awareness and discovery to a new independent project. This is exactly the response we were hoping for from our listeners."
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鈥淲e were very excited that Clear Channel鈥檚 programming team proposed an Artist Integration campaign with Mac. They recognized early on that something special was happening with him, and the campaign was instrumental in boosting 鈥淏lue Slide Park鈥 to its recent success,鈥 said Benjy Grinberg, President Rostrum Records. 鈥淲ith their creativity, assets and reach, they definitely played a key role in taking Mac Miller鈥檚 awareness up a notch. Their efforts exceeded our expectations, and we think it's incredible that they are paying such close attention to independent artists like Mac.鈥
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The Nickelback Artist Integration Program campaign launching today will run across Clear Channel CHR, Hot Adult Contemporary (AC), Mainstream and Active rock formats and will include banner ads with links to iTunes; custom- produced online spots for station streams; an exclusive artist content page; and Nickelback鈥檚 artist-seeded station featured on iHeartRadio.com. As part of the integrated campaign, Clear Channel and Roadrunner Records will also launch a promotion offering listeners a chance to win tickets for two to attend a Nickelback U.S. show during their upcoming tour, backstage access to meet the band and autographed copies of their new album 鈥淗ere and Now.鈥