Springsteen to Premiere New Music on “The Good Wife.” Wait–What?
The Good Wife is one of my wife’s favourite TV shows, although I can safely say she doesn’t watch the show for the music used in the background. I doubt anyone does. So why is Springsteen going to debut a track from his upcoming album, High Hopes, on the program’s January 12th episode? Billboard explains.
CBS and the Springsteen camps hope that body of viewers – it’s not unreasonable to figure the episode will have 13 million to 14 million viewers watching during its first sales week – will become album buyers. Springsteen has had no trouble debuting at No. 1 – his last four studio albums of newly recorded original material debuted atop the Billboard 200 – but each successive album with the E Street Band has dipped from its predecessor. In each instance, the first weeks represent about one-third the total of each album’s eventual total.
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