Media related report - Essay Example

In the music industry generally, music companies offer various pertinent details about the music album to the media in an effort to create curiosity as well as anticipation. The artist gives interviews to the media regarding the music album and releases previews on the websites so that the fans can listen to them and wait eagerly for the album’s release on the due date. The producers used various sources of media for generating interest among the fans by making announcements on their websites.

 For Diving Board, avenues such as concert venues regarding the status of continued postponement of the release date and its reasons was posted. The producers of the album initially announced that the artist was not happy with the songs and tracks, so he was writing new tracks of the music album. In this way, they succeeded to keep the music album in constant limelight for one year before its release and created a lot of speculation everywhere.  Finally, Sir Elton Johan gave an interview to Robert Copsey on Digitalspy.

com and also gave them a preview of the new album, The Diving Board on Jul 16, 2013 (Copsey, 2013). He also talked about the passion throughout his life - music. The premier single of this album was released on June 24, 2013, and the music album was available at the market for pre-order.  When the music album was released in the market, various websites wrote reviews regarding this music album on their sites.  Before the release, most of them wrote reviews regarding the Elton John returning to his musical roots in 1970s and several reviewers were sceptical due to many postponements.

After release of the album, the reviewer at Rollingstone.co.uk wrote on Sept 13, 2013 that this was a completely different musical style of the artist from the last album. He (Elton John) evoked the spirit of 1970s and reclaimed his legacy with which he made his name. Rolling Stones added that the work reminded the