Blake Shelton is slowly clawing his way onto the A List. He’s started gaining real traction in the hit making department and has developed a long list of concert songs. Plus with a few high profile TV stints he’s becoming a big name.
Just when he gets there it looks like they change the game. His latest album isn’t really an album. It’s a download collection of songs. Packaged as a Six Pack and out 3/2/10. It looks like the smaller packages of music are potentially more lucrative. That’s surprising to most outside the music biz who don’t realize that the cost of printing physical disks and cases are not the big cost. A substantial cost is publishing rights and royalties.
Expect to see more of this as the music biz shifts to an itunes-singles focused world.
Blake Shelton
In fact , Hillbilly Bone will drive a lotof the sales for Shelton’s SixPack, but there’s some other – mostly fun – stuff on the collection to make it worth your download. From Can’t Afford To Love you to Kiss my Country Ass he continues to showcase his funny side. In fact – after hearing several different versions of Kiss My Country Ass – Shelton’s is the only one I’ve heard that really works.
You can see a preview and special performance via Walmart’s SOUNDCHECK – Click HERE
Overall Grade B+
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