There has been a significant amount of industry chatter surrounding the abandonment of the national release day in order to make way for a globally unified release day. Retailers and independent labels are in agreement that a global release day may be in the best interest of the music industry as a whole, but are pushing for a reconsideration of the proposed global release day falling on Friday. Worried that a Friday release could cause the industry to incur unnecessary additional costs, and ultimately defeating the purpose of approaching releases globally, the following organizations are endorsing a Monday global release day.
Alliance Entertainment Corporation; Alliance of Independent Media Store (AIMS); American Association of Independent Music (A2IM); Amoeba Music; Association of Independent Music (AIM); Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS); Department of Record Stores (DORS); Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA); Hastings Entertainment Inc; Newbury Comics; Redeye; Rough Trade NYC; Rough Trade UK; SC Distribution.
Several global releases have fallen on a Monday and the industry has proved it's staying power, handling those releases efficiently and without additional cost. In a release that went out yesterday morning, Kim Bayley, Director General of the Entertainment Retailers Association said, “The evidence suggests that virtually all the benefits of a Global Release Date can be captured on a Monday without any additional costs. It is a no-brainer. The potential to create a New Music Monday focusing all of the industry’s marketing efforts at the beginning of the week is very exciting.”
Alliance Entertainment Corporation; Alliance of Independent Media Store (AIMS); American Association of Independent Music (A2IM); Amoeba Music; Association of Independent Music (AIM); Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS); Department of Record Stores (DORS); Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA); Hastings Entertainment Inc; Newbury Comics; Redeye; Rough Trade NYC; Rough Trade UK; SC Distribution.
Several global releases have fallen on a Monday and the industry has proved it's staying power, handling those releases efficiently and without additional cost. In a release that went out yesterday morning, Kim Bayley, Director General of the Entertainment Retailers Association said, “The evidence suggests that virtually all the benefits of a Global Release Date can be captured on a Monday without any additional costs. It is a no-brainer. The potential to create a New Music Monday focusing all of the industry’s marketing efforts at the beginning of the week is very exciting.”
