Tonio1986 said:
Your comment is pointless. I excluded UTEOT cause it is a co- production with deathrow and maybe they got other marketing strategies. Still I rise was released on dec. 21, 1999 and I said AROUND november. Read it again.
Greatest Hits and Better Days were also joint releases with Death Row, why don't you excluse those while you're at it? As I said before, this entire thread is pointless, you're asking a question with a very obvious answer:
Tonio1986 said:
Maybe it is as simple as many ppl think. Christmas. But I could also imagine it has somethin to do with the winter atmosphere, because in the summer everybody want to make party and they mainly focus on party music.
There's your answer, it IS as simple as that. It has nothing to do with the "winter atmosphere," depression, temperature, elevation, or whatever you want to measure; it's all about CHRISTMAS SHOPPING, perhaps the biggest shopping season in America. I live in Southern California, I still went to the beach well into December, it wasn't really cold at all, and everybody was shopping. Weather has little correlation with it.
If you want to break it down, out of the posthumous releases (excluding Makaveli, since Pac had completed the album and already started to promote it himself), Still I Rise was released closest to Christmas, and it had one of the better first-week sales of all of them (around 400,000, despite the terrible promotion), behind only Makaveli and R U Still Down (which was much better advertised than most releases after it), both of which were around during most of the hype. There's no need to analyze it further. CHRISTMAS. Peace.
