11:59 Song Snippets Up On Amazon!

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Kim

ETA: The entire album is streaming HERE!

Check out the page for 11:59 on Amazon.com…the 30 sec song snippets are FINALLY up and streaming! Start A Fire, the only song that we (or at least most of us) hadn’t heard a studio version of yet sounds great — very catch and marketable, definite single potential there.

Listen Here

Now, I can’t wait to hear snippets from the additional songs from the deluxe version, which includes:

1. Brand New Dar
2. Right Now
3. Last Train Home
4. Breathe
5. We Might Fall
6. This Could Be The Year
7. Unbreak
8. Start A Fire
9. Losing Your Memory
10. 11:59
11. You and Me
12. Gonna Make It Right
13. Back of Your Car

I’m definitely planning on getting an itunes copy Monday night and then a hard copy on Tuesday!

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Listen to “Start A Fire”

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Kim

Love it.

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11:59 Tracklisting

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Kim

Amazon.com recently updated the 11:59 page….to include a tracklisting for the album!

11:59 Tracklisting
1. Brand New Dar
2. Right Now
3. Last Train Home
4. Breathe
5. We Might Fall
6. This Could Be The Year
7. Unbreak
8. Start A Fire
9. Losing Your Memory
10. 11:59

Pretty much what I figured it would be, with the exception of Somebody’s Son. Liza over at watercoolerconvo says it will likely be on a deluxe version of the album. But either way, this is DEFINITELY a solid album. The only song we (well most of us) haven’t heard is Start A Fire (along with the retooled version of LYM), so it’s pretty safe to say this will be one of those albums you can listen to straight through without skipping a track!

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Site News: Oops….There Goes the Layout

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Kim

If you’re wondering why the site looks different right now, we had a few problems with the site yesterday. Some spammers used an exploit in our template which forced me to change it and update the site to wordpress 3.0. So bare with us; it will be a couple of days before we get a new layout up and running and restore the sidebar information. We’ll still be updating, as usual, though!

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Help Promote Ryan’s Album Release Show

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Kim

Want to help promote Ryan’s album release show? Here’s a printable poster you can hang up!

Get the HQ version from Rstar.net, right here.

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11:59 Album Cover!

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Kim

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Chart Watch: Breathe Enters the Top 20 on HAC!

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Kim

Today marks a new milestone in Ryan’s career — he’s officially a top 20 artist on the HAC charts! Mediabase recently updated their rankings for last week, and Breathe moves up one spot to #20 for this week…w00t!

HAC Spin Update
This Week: 1154
Last Week: 1074
Change: +80

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“Breathe” Chart Watch

Posted on May 22, 2010 by Kim

Breathe is currently making it’s way up the Hot AC (hot adult contemporary; HAC abbreviated) charts; a chart which monitors airplay on HAC radio stations. If you’re not familiar with the term HAC, here’s a quick crash course:

HAC radio pretty much builds it’s foundation on artists like Ryan; it caters to soft rock/pop rock bands and singers, with a healthy dose of pop music as well as a country or even hip hop crossover once in a while.

Other artists you’ll hear frequently on HAC: Rob Thomas, David Cook, Jason Mraz, Nickleback, Daughtry, Bon Jovi, Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Pink, Train, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift.

Current HAC Rankings for “Breathe (c/o Mediabase)

This Week: #22 (and rising)
Last Week: #24

Spins This Week: 1055
Spins Last Week: 984
Increase: +71

To put spins into persective, the #20 song has 1410 spins this week. The #10 song has 2548 spins this week. And the #1 song has 4475 songs this week. And if a song does well on HAC, it can cross over to Top 40 (aka pop), which is overall a bigger market. But doing well on the HAC charts is a big deal in it’s own rights.

You can use this tool if you want to see if “Breathe” has been added to your station yet: http://addboard.mediabase.com/menu.asp Even after it’s added, it can take a looooong time before a song is played, especially a debut artist.

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11:59 Release Set for 8/3!

Posted on May 22, 2010 by Kim

We finally have a solid release date! If you’ve been following RSF, then you know that we had a bunch of “rumored” release dates last year, most of which came from Amazon. But now we’re hearing from the man himself that 11:59 will be released on August 3rd, 2010. Ryan tweeted about it this morning, and an official press release for the drop date can be found at RStar.net. The release also talks about how “Breathe” is doing on the charts (and I’m actually going to start posting a weekly chart watch here on the blog).

Additionally, Ryan is planning an album release show on the same day in NYC. That is going to be one amazing show! I wish I wasn’t completely on the other side of the country.

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New Ryan Star Song “Unbreak”

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Kim

A handful of Ryan’s songs are up on HitPredictor, including a new track called “Unbreak”, a new version of “We Might Fall” and a rerecorded version of 11:59. I recorded the first two and a snippett of the 3rd; the quality isn’t great, just a warning!

ETA: Well that was quick! All three clips were taken down, sorry guys.

Love the new song, and I also love this new version of 11:59. I remember HitPredictor had a demo up late last year and a lot of us felt it was a bit too overproduced,but this version is just perfect. And I’m glad we’re finally getting to hear the new version of WMF with the accordion that Ryan told us about a couple of years ago. It’s absolutely GORGEOUS and has this ethereal quality to it. I really recommend signing up on hitpredictor and listening to a higher quality version (set you stats to HAC!).

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