Victoria Monet Quotes

Usually albums are frontloaded with singles.

There's not a great danger in releasing the first single from an album without a video because the momentum from the last album will cause large numbers of fans to buy it.

Once we put 'So Anxious' out, it was a wrap.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.

Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.

After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.

I was actually really stunned that my label suggested 'Door' as the single to lead with, as it's such a long and winding song.

I don't want to put out a CD of album songs. I'm gunning for every song to be a single.

We were number one most added at radio, when the single came out and that's much different. It took like eight months for any radio to happen on the first record, so a lot more support has happened right out of the box.

I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.

When I put out 'Video Games' in May 2011, it was a 5:25-minute love song; I was surprised when a lot of people said they were listening to it. I was surprised when it went to the radio, without me even knowing how something like that even happens!

The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records.

It doesn't take a year to sing a song. Takes a year for people to figure out how to market it.

On our studio album 'Fly From Here' in 2011, we spent a year and a half promoting that around the world.

Any album that I ever put out I'm going to send it to country radio first.

In the middle of 'Bleed Red' coming out, a huge disproportionate majority of people in radio came to us and asked if they could have 'Cost of Livin' as a single. There was even talk behind closed doors about pulling 'Bleed Red' because they had caught wind and heard 'Cost of Livin'.' We went with that.

It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.

Often, it's the little things, like the title of a song, that can make a huge difference in its success.

I enjoy putting out singles.

'Dream Police' was in the can and ready to go when 'Budokan' started taking off worldwide, sales-wise.

We aren't just some record to put out before the new Pussycat Dolls CD!

When 'Flaws' went to No 21, we thought it was the most chart-bothering thing we'd ever do. We had a little party and started thinking about the next album.

'Let There Be Love' is going to be my very first international single release after going independent and I'm beyond excited.