Community Quote by Lupe Fiasco

A lot of times, people have forgotten about an album by the time it's released, because it leaked three months earlier. Very strange days…

— Matt Smith

We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't,…

— Andy Taylor

We had two songs online before the album was out, people were already making assumptions about what kind of band we were and what…

— Ryan Ross

There are so many people involved in making an album, and naturally, all you want to do is show it to your friends and…

— Zacky Vengeance

I sometimes feel I want to release an album without people knowing it is me.

— Michael Ball

There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.

— Taylor Swift

That's what's interesting: When you release an album, everyone hears it their own way.

— Stromae

The internet seems to be what a lot of independent bands are doing these days. They're bypassing the studio - the big studios, EMI…

— David Gilmour

Today on social media, you can release anything and everybody will hear it. Back in the day, that was your only outlet, getting a…

— Keith Sweat

If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a…

— Nikki Sixx

In 2008 it's easy to get huge before you have an album out with the Internet. I think that's great and you see a…

— Girl Talk

You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes…

— Lupe Fiasco