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# How Turn A Record Leak Turn Into A Good Thing
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/how-turn-a-record-leak-turn-into-a-good-thing/
- Published: 2010-07-27T10:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2010-07-27T10:00:00.000Z
- Description: Record leaks happen. I remember being 14 or so and having gained access to some albums a couple months before the street date hit. Was there a gray area there?. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/07/how-turn-a-record-leak-turn-into-a-good-thing.html]
- Author: admin
- Tags: Music Think Tank, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:59

**Record leaks happen**. I remember being 14 or so and having gained access to some albums a couple months before the street date hit. Was there a gray area there? Of course. But, these were albums I had been waiting for in excess of two to three years and I *wanted* to hear them badly. If fans can hear the the music, they will. Back then, if a record leaked, nothing happened – for the most part. The album street date didn't change. Over at MTT, there's a really smart post on how an artist that **Jesse Cannon** manages turned a leak that could have turned out to be a catastrophe and managed to make it into a great success. **The best part**:

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Memories, on Flickr")

> "I ended up **spending two hours** while I was out on a Friday night begging a 16 year old girl from Canada to not leak any more of the record (**not the type of thing** they tell you about when you go to music business school) after she posted a song on her Tumblr. At this point **we realized the record would inevitably leak early**." ([Read on](http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/how-man-overboard-made-their-record-leak-turn-into-a-good-th.html?ref=hypebot.com).)