Weekly Mission: Kris Allen Promo is Alright With Me!

So as you know, Kris and the Kris Allen Band gave us all an early “Krismas” present with their amazing Alright With Me (A Thank You to the Fans) video. I know we’ve all watched the heck out of that 3 minutes, 11 seconds of music video perfection but we’re huge Kris fans.

In the coming weeks, we want to capitalize on all the positive momentum Kris has been building with his recent L.A. promo. I know many of you have already added a link to the video to your facebook pages and have tweeted different people, suggesting they take a look but now let’s tackle this Little Pawns style…

The mission for the next two weeks is to get Kris’s AWM video watched by as many important industry-related people as possible, in the hopes that by generating buzz, AWM will gain even more spins and become the hit single we all know it has the potential to be.

If you haven’t already, add the link to the video to your facebook page, tweet EW, VH1, MTV, your local radio station while requesting they spin AWM, contact any music blog or magazine twitter. Kris has concerts coming up in CT, FL and CA – tweet those venues’ twitters the link and ask them to retweet to their followers. It’s good publicity for their event as well as for Kris.

If you can think of anywhere else to tweet or contact with the link, post your suggestions in a comment below. Also, let us know of any successes you have.

Good Luck!

~Emjay

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Permalink Reply by Altrus01 on November 24, 2010 at 8:08pm

What about tweeting radio stations that do those new music challenges and ask them to include AWM in their nightly challenge? If we tweet them the video I think we will have better luck getting it included. Bonus: we get spins as well as buzz.

Permalink Reply by Emjay Huston on November 24, 2010 at 9:07pm

Sounds like a great idea... whatever we can do to get AWM more spins!

Altrus01 said:

What about tweeting radio stations that do those new music challenges and ask them to include AWM in their nightly challenge? If we tweet them the video I think we will have better luck getting it included. Bonus: we get spins as well as buzz.

Permalink Reply by AnaYo on December 1, 2010 at 12:38am

This idea actually works. See, I tweeted a few local radio stations here in FL about this AWM video and next thing you know, one of them posted it on their station's website. That's great exposure, right? Keep re-tweeting, guys! Kris' Holiday shows are coming up so we should have more push then.

Permalink Reply by Emjay Huston on December 1, 2010 at 5:56pm

Good job! This is exactly what we are wanting to achieve!

AnaYo said:

This idea actually works. See, I tweeted a few local radio stations here in FL about this AWM video and next thing you know, one of them posted it on their station's website. That's great exposure, right? Keep re-tweeting, guys! Kris' Holiday shows are coming up so we should have more push then.

Permalink Reply by Diane/NCshopgirl on December 6, 2010 at 9:53pm

Tweeting radio stations definitely works because I got that awesome Triple Play from the DJ @ the COUNTRY station in Arkansas, LOL! Here's my tweet that the DJ retweeted:

"NCshopgirl So, @krisallen, did you witness my tweeting frenzy w/ @Y107Conway and did you hear her play your THREE songs?!!! #Y107ConwayROCKS"

And, in honor of this big OFFICIAL day for Little Pawns, I put on my teenager hat and wrote Parade magazine asking them to please interview Kris (nekked story, etc.). *crosses fingers*

Permalink Reply by Little Pawns on December 6, 2010 at 11:55pm

Great job!

Permalink Reply by Annette Scafati on December 13, 2010 at 12:18pm

So it sounds like we should be requesting AWM at COUNTRY stations...not just HAC. Right?

Permalink Reply by Little Pawns on December 16, 2010 at 8:57am

We should try to request "Alright With Me" from any avenue possible. Right now, HAC markets are playing it, so that should be the main focus, but this doesn't mean we stop trying to request the song on Pop stations or Country stations. If the song crosses over to country, that would be huge, so yes, if you have a country station near you that you think would be receptive to the song, by all means, give it a shot and either email their Program Director or request it and see what happens :)

Permalink Reply by Annette Scafati on January 10, 2011 at 10:55am

I just saw today that AWM lost 8 spins..the spin count being 199 down from 207 as reported last week by USA Today (Idol Chatter). This is really discouraging. There is no talk of an add date or video although I am very grateful for the video for the fans. Is this in large part due to the FL station not spinning AWM this last week. What are the chances for this song to ever make Top 40 or even 50 on HAC. What is disappointing is some of the other KA sites. KA Official has absolutely nothing about Kris's 3rd release AWM. I would think they would try to promote it by maybe putting his video on the home page. If they have anything on it..it is not very visible. Also, the idol forum is very quiet. Except for a few posters, the radio play tracking thread for AWM is very dead and it has been for the last month. I realize that the general public does not log onto these sites, it's mainly Kris's fans, but when your a fan and you see these sites it leaves the impression that no one cares about the success of AWM. I am sure fans do, but it appears that they don't. When fans see the lack of interest they lose their motivation to do anything about. Why should a fan make requests if KA Official doesn't seem to care about it or the radio play thread on the Idol Forum is dead? When fans see other fans requesting, they are more apt to request themselves. What can we do about this?

Permalink Reply by luly on January 10, 2011 at 4:12pm

-8 doesn’t mean that the song is over, it’s a small negative bullets and a song can pretty easily recover form that. I don’t think we should get discourage now, especially since AWM is really close to the top 50. On the last published chart AWM was #51 and only 14 spins away form the top 50. The fans should keep requesting and hopefully AWM will continue to climb. I think that fans should continue requesting regardless of how active a thread is in a forum.

KAO did posted the AWM video and mentioned the stations that are playing AWM. I do wish that the would post about it again so fans that visit the site will easily see it.

Permalink Reply by Little Pawns on January 13, 2011 at 10:57pm

luly is on the right track. AWM is so close to cracking the Top 50 and instead of being discouraged by a few lost spins, we should try to throw our support behind it and try to get it to the top 50. It will be a remarkable feat for the song to do this well, especially without any support from the label. However, please know that the moderators are communicating with management to get some answers about what the plans are for the song and whether they will be giving it an adds date in the near future.

In the meantime, we really appreciate everyone's work with requesting. Let's keep it up and we'll definitely let everyone know what the next step is in the next few days.

Permalink Reply by luly on January 14, 2011 at 12:21pm

I hope that AWM will make it much higher than top 50, since I think the song is good enough and catchy enough to be a hit. I really hope that Jive do have more plans for AWM and will push I very soon.