James Delahunty
22 Feb 2005 17:21
We reported yesterday that the new 50 Cent album, The Massacre had shown up online, about two weeks before its retail release date. If you recall the case of the Eminem - Encore album, Interscope held some urgent meetings to discuss the release date following an early Internet leak and ended up releasing it a matter of weeks before intended. Well as we predicted yesterday, Interscope decided again this time around to bring forward the release date of the 50 Cent album to avoid more lost sales.
The album will now be released on March 3rd, which is only 5 days before its intended release. With all the fuss around lately about BitTorrent sites and the "super fast" speeds that users can download and share files with it, labels are starting to monitor Internet leaks more closely. Most new albums now appear on the Internet available for free downloading before you can legally purchase them.
Source:
MTV