People Magazine Scans, New “Christmas From The Heart” Snippets and Everything Nice
People Magazine Scans – Rick Springfield vs David Archuleta
Cover headline: “Our 35th Birthday” dated October 19 (Thanks, @FSteven !)
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New “Christmas From The Heart” snippets from goHastings.com (different from Amazon’s)
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MP3 Downloads (credit: susanna)
From The Examiner: David Archuleta’s fans organize a Twitter Trending Party
David Archuleta’s fans organize a “Twitter Trending Party” to add buzz to his upcoming holiday album, Christmas From The Heart.
If there is one problem David Archuleta does not have, that is lack or shortage of fans. The American Idol runner up is adored by many, very enthusiastic fans (as was unscientifically proven in this site’s popularity poll, which he won.) And now, those fans are doing everything they can to help him sell as many copies as possible of his upcoming album Christmas From The Heart, out on October 13th.
The record is very popular on Amazon pre-orders, with spots in both the Bestsellers and the Holiday rankings. And now, in an attempt to make it even more popular, and give David Archuleta a boost in the social media category, his fans are getting together for a “Twitter Trending Party.” The following tweet was recently posted on fan FSteven’s twitter timeline: “#ArchuletaXmasCD Twitter Trending Party: Wed, 14 October @ 7AM Singapore/Hongkong/Malaysia/Philippines, 8AM Tokyo, 4:30AM India.”
What does all that mean, you ask? First, the words folowing the “#” are what is called a hashtag, keywords designed to make certain words and topics easier to find when digging through millions of tweets during a search. Second, trending is the act of getting a certain word or group of words to be featured as the most talked about topics on Twitter, a list that can be seen on user accounts and on the Twitter homepage. The higher up on the list a trend is, the more popular it is. Evidently, what the David Archuleta fans are trying to do is get as many people as possible to talk (well, tweet) about his album at the same time, in an attempt to get Christmas From The Heart on the trends list. That would increase its popularity, and ultimately the record sales.
Will it work? That will depend on David Archuleta’s fans. And in the end, only October 13th, and Twitter, will tell.
