ARTIST NEWS
AFROMAN: Rolling Stone * One Day song dowload of 9,000!
4/7/04 AFROMAN PRESS
This will confirm that AFROMAN: AFROHOLIC...THE EVEN BETTER TIMES will be reviewed by ROLLING STONE in their next issue (May 13 issue). 4/7/04 AFROMAN RADIO We will be working a 5 song radio sampler to 114 Alternative Rock stations' specialty shows around the country, starting next week and running for 6 weeks. We will monitor the activity closely, and have regular updates as the plan rolls out. The songs are as follows: 1. Let's Get High Tonight 2. Drive Better Drunk 3. Just My Paranoia 4. Hittin' Switches 5. Cali Swangin' Chris Stowers at JMcCluskey Promotion is leading the charge! 4/7/04 AFROMAN WEB "Whack Rappers" is a website exclusive song (not on the album) that has started to get some attention on the internet. In the song, Afroman disses everyone from 50Cent to Jay-Z to Nas to Kelis to B2K and more... Here's a glimpse of what is happening: From the beginning of the month through yesterday (4/06), the song has been downloaded from www.afromanmusic.com about 25,000 times. 9000 of these were from yesterday alone. Here's Afroman's website hits/visits overall from the first 5 days of April: Date Hits / Visits 4/01 13,156 / 475 4/02 16,172 / 430 4/03 12,324 / 391 4/04 26,854 / 697 4/05 46,328 / 1192 The song/story is proliferating through the following websites/links (a simple Google search using 'whack' and 'wack' in the song title turns up more each day): www.gunitworld.com/ hayesay.joeuser.com www.gamingupdate.com/ forums/search.php?do=finduser&u=10 www.rapbasement.com/ modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=817 urban.fan2fan.com rapdirt.com/ www.real-hiphop.com/ www.fan2fan.com/ www.reactmag.com Timing couldn't be better. |

