Promotion
The Crossover Tour was a scheduled world tour to promote Dreaming of You. It was scheduled to begin in mid-1995, after the initial release of the crossover album. The Crossover Tour would promote Selena in countries where Selena was not well-known.
Several commercials were released in the US, Mexico and South America to promote the album. Jose Behar of EMI Latin said that promotion " ... will be on the superstar scale" and that " didn't put this marketing campaign behind it because there was a tragedy. ... We put this marketing campaign behind it because we believed that this was going to be a huge album because of the music. This is a record that we're going to work over the next 10 months."
In Texas and Mexico, bootleggers sold counterfeited copies of Dreaming of You. A bootlegger in Corpus Christi, Texas, approached Selena's father, without knowing who he was. Quintanilla Jr. took all available copies and reported the man to local police. In Texas, counterfeit merchandise from Dreaming of You, such as shirts, bootleg copies and key chains, were sold from vehicles, trailers, and independent stores. There are no known reports of the public reporting bootleggers, although Quintanilla Jr reported any he found to the police. By 1996, 50,000 counterfeited copies of Dreaming of You were thought to have been sold at five dollars each.
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Famous quotes containing the word promotion:
“I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is that I would rather be one of the good colonels than one of the poor generals. The colonel of a regiment has one of the most agreeable positions in the service, and one of the most useful. “A good colonel makes a good regiment,” is an axiom.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple of other people, or that your Oscar was for supporting actress, not really for a starring role. More subtly, they can cheer your successes too wildly, forcing you into the awkward realization that your achievement of merely graduating or getting the promotion did not warrant the fireworks and brass band.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)