New album: The Final Frontier!

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It's a good number. 3 Little Pigs, 3 Billy Goats Gruff, 3 Stooges, The Trinity... so why not 3 weeks? :p
 
Indeed, usually lead-off singles are released one week before the album. There may be exceptions, but none of you should hold their breath.
 
This isn't the official artwork for the album (it's some fan art) but I quite like it. Well, apart from the text I like it a zillion times better than the stuff for the tour.

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The backgrounds really cool. Not so keen on the Eddie though, and as thats the most important part of the cover art then I'm fairly meh about it.
 
Forostar said:
Why not 1 week? Wildest Dreams came out 1 week before Dance of Death.
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Incorrect. It was at least 2 weeks, and I think closer to 3.

I was listening to Wildest Dreams on the Maiden website at least one or two weeks before I saw GMETID. And DOD came out about one week after I saw GMETID.

Now, maybe there's a difference in terms here... I'm not saying the single was officially released that far before DOD. But the song was available for online streaming well in advance.
 
SinisterMinisterX said:
Incorrect. It was at least 2 weeks, and I think closer to 3.

I was listening to Wildest Dreams on the Maiden website at least one or two weeks before I saw GMETID. And DOD came out about one week after I saw GMETID.

Now, maybe there's a difference in terms here... I'm not saying the single was officially released that far before DOD. But the song was available for online streaming well in advance.
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Ah, OK, I was talking about the official release (according to the IMCommentary).
 
SinisterMinisterX said:
Incorrect. It was at least 2 weeks, and I think closer to 3.

I was listening to Wildest Dreams on the Maiden website at least one or two weeks before I saw GMETID. And DOD came out about one week after I saw GMETID.

Now, maybe there's a difference in terms here... I'm not saying the single was officially released that far before DOD. But the song was available for online streaming well in advance.
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It might have been a leak. I forget when the full album leaked. I know AMOLAD only leaked within a few days of the release.
 
No, it was not a leak. It was streaming Wildest Dreams from ironmaiden.com. The difference is pretty obvious, and I remember it quite clearly.
 
But the important thing is to listen the new song (so the new single) with or without release...because surely before august or september the new single will not be released but we will can hear it during the tour or at least on the web somewhere.
 
Yeah, in 2003 we (Europeans) heard "Wildest Dreams" on tour, before any release, website or CD.

This surely might happen again in 2010, but this time also the Americans and Canadians will hear the new song, before a website will stream it, or before the CD comes out.
 
Exactly,mate !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even if between two months we could know the tracklist of the album in any case....who knows...we shall see....
I'm very excited to hear the new single and then after a couple of months the new album,seen the big succesful of "a matter of life and death",very great album!!!!!!!!!
 
Perun said:
Indeed, usually lead-off singles are released one week before the album. There may be exceptions, but none of you should hold their breath.
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Lol, I found the following on the official forum. Someone checked this out:

Iron Maiden - 1 st single released 82 days before album.
Killers - 1 st single released 29 days after album.
NOTB - 1 st single released 46 days before album.
POM - 1 st single released 36 days before album.
Powerslave - 1 st single released 29 days before album.
Somewhere in Time - 1 st single released 24 days before album.
SSOASS - 1 st single released 23 days before album.
No prayer for the Dying - 1 st single released 22 days before album.
FOTD - 1 st single released 29 days before album.
TXF - 1 st single released 8 days before album.
VXI - 1 st single released 15 days before album.
BNW - 1 st single released 22 days before album.
DOD - 1 st single released 8 days before album.
AMOLAD - 1 st single released 7 days before album.

The stuff in blue could be an example for what's going to happen in 2010, it's speculation, but we'll see.
 
I remember that Benjamin Breeg was released in music video form a few weeks before its official single release, first to fanclub only, then eventually it leaked onto youtube. The tracklist for the album was also released around the same time.
There was also that site they put up "about" Breeg around that time.

I've looked back into some of my profiles on other websites at the time and it seems it was around 16th July 2006 that the Breeg video was released/leaked.
 
Ardius said:
I remember that Benjamin Breeg was released in music video form a few weeks before its official single release, first to fanclub only, then eventually it leaked onto youtube. The tracklist for the album was also released around the same time.
There was also that site they put up "about" Breeg around that time.

I've looked back into some of my profiles on other websites at the time and it seems it was around 16th July 2006 that the Breeg video was released/leaked.
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I remember that Man on the Edge was also on MTV a little while before the single was in stores (forgot how many weeks it was). Maybe it often went like that. Mostly the debut of a video was on Headbanger's Ball. I also remember (though I could be mistaken) that I saw the video of The Angel and the Gambler before I could buy it.
 
Considering how much the music business and the role of the internet has changed even in the last 4 years after AMOLAD, I think experience on songs like Man on the Edge or The Angel and the Gambler might be a bit outdated at this point. :)  I would agree with Perun's guess; a week between the single and the album sounds pretty reasonable considering that's what they've done the last seven years.  Brave New World was released ten years ago, which is actually a really long time.  That was before Pirate Bay or even Napster, before online music stores, before the supposed plight of the music industry; the internet was nothing like what it is today.  I would guess changes in the industry (and the world) have changed how music is released nowadays.
 
Invader said:
Brave New World was released ten years ago, which is actually a really long time.  That was before Pirate Bay or even Napster...
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Not before Napster. I was using Napster before BNW was out, and I was hardly at the cutting edge. Millions of people were using it.
 
SinisterMinisterX said:
Not before Napster. I was using Napster before BNW was out, and I was hardly at the cutting edge. Millions of people were using it.
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Okay, I'll admit that was second-hand information since I was too young then myself.  I thought that it only got big around the time Metallica started their episode about it.
 
SinisterMinisterX said:
Not before Napster. I was using Napster before BNW was out, and I was hardly at the cutting edge. Millions of people were using it.
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Even more than that : I'd say that by the release of BNW, Napster was already declining. I remember Bruce blaming Metallica during a promo BNW interview
 
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