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# Retailers and Independent Labels Unite Endorsing Monday Global Release Day
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/retailers-and-independent-labels-unite-endorsing-a-monday-global-release-day/
- Published: 2014-11-26T09:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2014-11-26T09:30:00.000Z
- Description: There has been a significant amount of industry chatter surrounding the abandonment of the national release day in order to make way for a globally unified release day. Retailers and. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2014/11/retailers-and-independent-labels-unite-endorsing-a-monday-
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There has been a significant amount of industry chatter surrounding the **abandonment of the national release day** in order to make way for a globally unified release day. Retailers and independent labels are in agreement that a global release day may be in the best interest of the music industry as a whole, but are pushing for a reconsideration of the proposed global release day falling on Friday. **Worried that a Friday release could cause the industry to incur unnecessary additional costs, and ultimately defeating the purpose of approaching releases globally, the following organizations are endorsing a Monday global release day.**

**Alliance Entertainment Corporation**   
**Alliance of Independent Media Store (AIMS)**   
**American Association of Independent Music (A2IM)**   
**Amoeba Music**  
**Association of Independent Music (AIM)**   
**Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS)**   
**Department of Record Stores (DORS)**   
**Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA)**   
**Hastings Entertainment Inc**   
**Newbury Comics**  
**Redeye**   
**Rough Trade NYC**  
**Rough Trade UK**  
**SC Distribution**

Several global releases have fallen on a Monday and the industry has proved it's staying power, handling those releases efficiently and without additional cost. In a release that went out yesterday morning, **Kim Bayley,** Director General of the Entertainment Retailers Association said, “The evidence suggests that virtually all the benefits of a Global Release Date can be captured on a Monday without any additional costs. It is a no-brainer. **The potential to create a New Music Monday focusing all of the industry’s marketing efforts at the beginning of the week is very exciting**.”

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