Trace Adkins says he's not too worried if his latest album, Dangerous Man, which is currently certified gold (for sales of 500,000 copies), doesn't achieve million-selling sales status. "We're moving and getting ready to come with a new single off the next record, so it's onward and upward," he tells Billboard.com. So far Trace says he's halfway through song selection for the next album, and plans to release its first single in August - regardless of how his current single "I Wanna Feel Something" is doing at radio at the time. "I'm kind of talking out of school here, but we're going to try to get the album out before the end of the year," Trace says. "We have a couple singles we can choose from, and I don't really care which one it is because they're both strong. It doesn't matter where 'I Wanna Feel Something' is. It's had its run in my opinion, and I just don't have the patience that I used to have anymore. I just don't.
"You send a song to radio and they play it for 16 weeks or whatever, and then you can just tell it's not going to be one of those records they're going to jump all over. And if we kept working at it, could we get it top 10? Yeah, we probably could. But you know what, those numbers are just not that important to me anymore. It would be a long, labor-intensive work record, and I don't have time for that."
7/24/2007 Stephen L. Betts
