Last week Bob Dylan released his 567th album, which is
only a few short of Ryan Adams.
Marketing a new album has vastly changed since Dylan strummed it onto
the scene almost 50 years ago. You can’t
push your songs to radio. There’s
nowhere to buy a physical album. You
could have the next big EDM-artist do multiple remixes but Dylan’s music really
doesn’t lend itself to that. But even if
you were to do a decent sounding remix of a new Dylan track, you would need to
be on bath salts to enjoy it. So, how
does Bob Dylan…one of the most iconic singers of all time…do to market a brand
as big as he is? He builds a pop-up
store. That’s right…Bob Dylan had his
own store. A store that sells nothing
but Bob Dylan merchandise like CDs, vinyl, t-shirts, pants, hats, furniture,
cars, musical instruments, guns, toilets…okay, I made up the last one. This is brilliant. When you think of Dylan and where he came
from…he embodied the anti-corporate mentality.
Today, it’s only fitting that he snubs the record industry by succeeding
at the one thing they failed at doing…running a record store.
Here are the 11 Best Albums By Bob Dylan:
- Blood on the Tracks (1975)
- Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
- Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
- The Times They Are A-Changing (1964)
- Planet Waves (1974)
- Blonde on Blonde (1966)
- Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964)
- Time Out of Mind (1997)
- The Free Wheelin' Bob Dylan (1963)
- Nashville Skyline (1969)
- John Wesley Harding (1967)
Buy Bob Dylan's new album, Tempest...now!!! (only $5 for a limited time)
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