Young Nations & 985 Albums Pushed Back

Monday, 21 September 2009

Press release: Due to unforeseen distribution constraints with South African hip hop music against the prioritization of international releases, Unreleased Records took a decision that the value of the new Young Nations “United States of Africa” album and the new 985 album “Re-Dial 985”, would be unfairly compromised in the region.   The allocation of shelf space for international products continues to dominate and damage the availability of South African music to the public Therefore, Unreleased Records has made this corporate decision in the best interest of all fans, to release the new Young Nations album “United States of Africa” and the new 985 album “Re-Dial 985” on the 1st of March 2010. It has been made clear that the international releases from overseas take retail store priority during the December Christmas season. In addition to the release of the 985 and Young Nations albums on 1st March 2010, Unreleased Records will be releasing a pre-release CD compilation of both artists, with special features from C-live, F-eezy, Imbube, in association with Mafia Soul The pre-release compilation will be available on CD and online via www.unreleasedrecords.com and various artists’ social networks. Set as favorite Bookmark Email this Hits: 521 Comments (1) Bogodile aka Boogie said: ... Damn! This isnt good news but I think it will be worth it to wait! Its sad to see how SA hip hop isnt making a big impact in the market. In mean, its 2009 & retailers arent feeling SA hip hop?! I was hoping by this time things would've changed ..... Hip hop in SA needs a make over, cause by the looks of things "something isnt going right!" I love hip hop, I'll always will.... but hip hop needs to reach everybody so that we can build a bigger market! Please drop that compilation CD before end of Oct! Big up to Unreleased for sigining Fezzy & 985 this year we hope to see more artists signing soon!!! OnE! October 01, 2009 Write comment Name Email Website Comment smaller | bigger Write the displayed characters Add Comment