“Once we had some radio support, we were able to go to VH-1, who’d always liked Chris, and got them to start playing the video again.”įueled by a hit single, Isaak’s “Heart Shaped World” album has passed the gold sales mark and is about to make a run at platinum status. “Suddenly we had stations everywhere getting results,” said Gary Briggs, Reprise’s national album promotion manager. Thanks to the success of “Wicked Game,” Isaak’s album, “Heart Shaped World,” which had barely cracked the charts in the summer of 1989, was speeding up the Hot 100. By November, so many radio stations were playing it that Isaak’s record label, Warner/Reprise Records, rushed out a promotional CD single. Convinced the song was a hit, Chesnut began calling stations in Tucson, Memphis and Seattle, encouraging his radio pals to play the track. The first time Power 99 played the song, the station’s phones lit up like crazy.
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