Thorgerson was one of the premier rock-album designers of the seventies.
It's not a big surprise: Coldplay premiered the album as a pre-release stream on Apple's iTunes store, and famously withheld their last album Mylo Xyloto from streaming services for four months after it went on sale.
Bilal premiered the album's music in his performance at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.
This savvy stunt follows a gig at the Empire State Building and a ten-date tour premiering the album.
The session premiered the album in its entirety and featured attendance from journalists, models, industry types, and recording artists such as Busta Rhymes, 88-Keys, and Beyoncé Knowles.
In 2012, they premiered their album Waverly underwater, literally submerging the audience in an ocean pool of sound using underwater speakers.
Music sites are asking for song premiers, full album streams, live performances, essays, poetry, travel diaries, photo diaries and more, that are all generated by the artist, opposed to a music journalist.
Minaj then accused Spotify of not putting her face on every playlist, like the streaming service did with Drake, because she'd premiered her album 10 minutes early on "Queen Radio," a program she launched on Apple Music's Beats 1 station ahead of the album.
FlyLo already premiered the album's tracklist through digital trading cards adorned with rather grotesque (albeit awesome) imagery, and the video teaser could be described as a cortex cataclysm that continues the producer's reputation for pairing his music with animated oddities. .
And it was so overwhelmingly positive that they told her they wanted to do an exclusive premier for her album.
