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is it possible they really worked hard to make sure no info ab this record spills ?!? idk ... no spillage makes me think its not coming soon, but she does work for interscope, and they clearly have the power and money to pull something off like this. it all seems too good to be true 

Damn, Lana really got the whole world in on this surprise! 

I found this list from a site called Distrokid about how long it takes for an album to be uploaded before its release date. It seems that they're really going to announce/upload right before like @Bunny Mozart said.
 
iTunes/Apple Music: 1-7 days. A very small percentage of albums go through manual review at Apple, which takes an additional 1-2 weeks or so.
Spotify: 2-5 days
Amazon: 1-2 days
Google Play/YouTube Music: 1-2 days.
Deezer: 1-2 days
TIDAL: 1-2 days
 

Damn, Lana really got the whole world in on this surprise! 

I’m currently chatting with an Apple Music rep, she says “Ah okay! That’s a fantastic question, let’s see what we can find!” OMG

I found this list from a site called Distrokid about how long it takes for an album to be uploaded before its release date. It seems that they're really going to announce/upload right before like @Bunny Mozart said.
 
iTunes/Apple Music: 1-7 days. A very small percentage of albums go through manual review at Apple, which takes an additional 1-2 weeks or so.
Spotify: 2-5 days
Amazon: 1-2 days
Google Play/YouTube Music: 1-2 days.
Deezer: 1-2 days
TIDAL: 1-2 days
 

Lana fans will get BLACKLISTED  I’m also going to try and contact more record stores and music retailers if anyone else also wants to!

Well, that didn’t really get me anywhere. 
 
 
She basically just said that she doesn’t have insight on the album as it’s up to the recording studio if and when it gets added to Apple Music.  I expected as much, but oh well!
 
She did give me a link to actually suggest to Apple Music to add the album to their catalogue, which would have them contact Lana’s team - that’s only if enough people did that, she said. The link is apple.com/feedback/apple-music.html

But what if she's involved in Lana's plan to surprise us? 

I found this list from a site called Distrokid about how long it takes for an album to be uploaded before its release date. It seems that they're really going to announce/upload right before like @Bunny Mozart said.
 
iTunes/Apple Music: 1-7 days. A very small percentage of albums go through manual review at Apple, which takes an additional 1-2 weeks or so.
Spotify: 2-5 days
Amazon: 1-2 days
Google Play/YouTube Music: 1-2 days.
Deezer: 1-2 days
TIDAL: 1-2 days
 

Lana fans will get BLACKLISTED  I’m also going to try and contact more record stores and music retailers if anyone else also wants to!

Well, that didn’t really get me anywhere. 
 
 
She basically just said that she doesn’t have insight on the album as it’s up to the recording studio if and when it gets added to Apple Music.  I expected as much, but oh well!
 
She did give me a link to actually suggest to Apple Music to add the album to their catalogue, which would have them contact Lana’s team - that’s only if enough people did that, she said. The link is apple.com/feedback/apple-music.html

I think it’s gonna be like Violet, because that ATRL insider said the album was being mastered on July 25, but I don’t think they got that info as soon as the album started being mastered, it could’ve been almost done at that point. Here’s what I think is going to happen:
 
August 28 - cover/tracklist
 
August 29 - album trailer/pre-order for digital release on September 5th and for vinyl release in November/December
 
September 4th - music video for a song
 
September 5th - album release 

I’m currently chatting with an Apple Music rep, she says “Ah okay! That’s a fantastic question, let’s see what we can find!” OMG

not us spamming apple music asking for some cocc 

They're probably going to add it last minute, like when Lana puts the lana.lnk.to link in her bio so we can pre-order. She usually does it on the day of the announcement 

Well, that didn’t really get me anywhere. 
 
 
She basically just said that she doesn’t have insight on the album as it’s up to the recording studio if and when it gets added to Apple Music.  I expected as much, but oh well!
 
She did give me a link to actually suggest to Apple Music to add the album to their catalogue, which would have them contact Lana’s team - that’s only if enough people did that, she said. The link is apple.com/feedback/apple-music.html

Well, that didn’t really get me anywhere. 
 
 
She basically just said that she doesn’t have insight on the album as it’s up to the recording studio if and when it gets added to Apple Music.  I expected as much, but oh well!
 
She did give me a link to actually suggest to Apple Music to add the album to their catalogue, which would have them contact Lana’s team - that’s only if enough people did that, she said. The link is apple.com/feedback/apple-music.html

That’s what I was thinking!

so now we spamming apple.com/feedback/apple-music.html  with "add cocc to the catalogue"

I’m currently chatting with an Apple Music rep, she says “Ah okay! That’s a fantastic question, let’s see what we can find!” OMG

Well, that didn’t really get me anywhere. 
 
 
She basically just said that she doesn’t have insight on the album as it’s up to the recording studio if and when it gets added to Apple Music.  I expected as much, but oh well!
 
She did give me a link to actually suggest to Apple Music to add the album to their catalogue, which would have them contact Lana’s team - that’s only if enough people did that, she said. The link is apple.com/feedback/apple-music.html

That’s what I was thinking!

I’m currently chatting with an Apple Music rep, she says “Ah okay! That’s a fantastic question, let’s see what we can find!” OMG

I still want to know if her label would even let her release an album on a Saturday.
 
She is an album artist primarily, hardly a singles artist, so I think that’s why she can afford to put out a single on any random day of the week, but her albums carry that weight for her and so that’s why they’ve always come out on the days that a tracking week starts. 
 
September 5th is obviously not a Friday, and I think if the album was supposed to be released on that date, then she would’ve looked at her calendar and seen September 4th as the Friday. However, I think that date was a decoy because of the last paragraph I wrote in this post ^
 
The album could be slated as a literal surprise release for Friday, August 28 - again, the September 5th date could’ve been an error when she was adding 7 days to the 28th but forgot the extra day for the 31 days in August. 
 
It’s probably very unlikely, but if the album comes out at midnight, she may post to her social media tomorrow after the album is already out (as we’ve seen her do this with singles before) and say that’s it’s already available and that we can pre-order the vinyls. Far-fetched, I know, but it makes too much sense. 

 
EDIT: also, Sheridan saying “3 days and 4 midnights to go...” - “to go...” is such an elusive thing to say, and other artists use that phrase when they’re counting down their album! 
 
I guess we’ll find out at midnight lol!