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well , if theyre that stupid , maybe theyll let AB go . Or not ...
(wow , 2 whole pages and still on topic , im not used to that. lol)

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Totally forgot about them lol and ye Nickleback too.. oh and nightwish.. Ah well i was mistaken , maybe Ab can fit in there then ;)

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OT: Nightwish just kicked their singer....

AB would fit better then them! BUT! I do hope they'll start their own record lable... That would be the best thing to do, they would be able to do what ever they wanted then!

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;)

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Hey, I actually like those guys! :D

But yeah, I thought of them too. I think AB would be fine on Roadrunner Records.

But how about Epic/Sony Music? They seem like an alright label... But I do like the idea of the guys starting their own label. There's it no way they're gonna get screwed over if they do that. (Unless they feel like screwing themselves over, but why...?)

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Ye , Nightwish gonna be even worse than they were now that their popular lead singer has gone..

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I tell you what, I start some thought provoking posts huh?

Anyway it's still a little unlclear for what I have read wether AB will or will not be dropped from wind-up. I have posted my thoughts and I will say again that it's totally fucked up that WU is screwing 3/4ths of the band that got them on the map. I know it's entirely true that in most cases of bands getting to be of commercial jugernaut status like creed, the singer is always the one who will be most recognized. And to alot of less techical and musicianal aspect the rest kinda gets way less recognozed (Except zeppelin, where page a plant were THEE rock team).

If wind-up does drop AB, then sure...why not go to sony or road runner. However, I'm not so sure they won't be doing the same thing wind-up is doing.

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Oh and one last observation, if you count stapps total sales now and AB's sales you get roughly around 180,000 (and if I'm doing these wrong based on what I have read from reports on VH1 or other notable music sources, don't shit on me to bad, and I'll just say MY bad) which is not even half of what weathered was selling four years ago...so....I guess both stapp and AB could be doing better but...yea...later.

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um yeah you're wrong with that number...unless maybe you meant 1,800,000...that could be closer to correct, cause ab's are over 700,000 to my knowledge.

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Yeah... 700.000 is what I counted, and Stapp's sold roughly the same...

Then you can take the marketing in tot he calculation, how much have AB had and how much have Stapp had? AB= second to none and Stapp = alot!

OT: The ex-singer in Nightwish wasn't that popular since she was a diva, she never talked to fans and so... My friend knows the guitarrist (think it's him) in nightwish and he's said the band been wanting to kick her for a long time! Don't know what will happen to them now though

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Lol, they wore out their welcome when "Someday" got played for the 1,000 time on the radio. Now I can't stand that band. :laugh:


I don't know about RR. Didn't they have a poll a month or two ago essentially bashing Creed/AB/Stapp? I can't remember what it said exactly, but I do know that it trashed them. And I don't know how well RR promotes their artists. I mean, I guess they must be doing a good job with Nickelback, seeing as how they're all over the place. Theory of A Deadman is doing pretty well, too. But I'm not sure RR would be a good fit for AB.

Sony seems to do a good job with promoting as well. But they're more mainstream than WU and RR, and perhaps they'd try to force AB into going more commercial with their music? We'll just have to see what happens, I guess.

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Just to be fair, AB did get good promotion leading up to the release of ODR. Maybe not as good as Stapp's promotion for his solo album, but they still got a fair bit. And I still say that releasing ODR just a mere two months after the break-up was announced helped ODR's record sales some. Creed was still fresh in the minds of potential buyers in August of 2004. A year later, I'd venture to say that a lot of people forgot about Creed, outside of the real fans. So I think that has something to do with Stapp and AB's sales being roughly the same(in terms of week by week sales). Just speculation on my part, though.

And ODR has sold 700,000? That's awesome. Hopefully it eventually goes platinum.

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They were just bashing Stapp really. No mention of Ab

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You're right. I just did a search and found that thread from a couple of months ago and I guess they did only mention Stapp.

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Oh, ok..I needed that figure. Still, because creed split so did the fan base and so did the sales. What I mean, is the way I see it at least is that 50% will buy stapp and 50% have already bought AB's album.