{"id":15556,"date":"2012-07-12T14:03:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T18:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15556"},"modified":"2012-07-12T14:03:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T18:03:47","slug":"target-stores-refuse-to-carry-frank-oceans-channel-orange-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15556","title":{"rendered":"Target Stores Refuse To Carry Frank Ocean&#8217;s Channel Orange Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Frank Ocean&#8217;s<\/strong><em> Channel Orange<\/em> debut quickly topped iTunes charts when it was released earlier in the week, but when the physical album is available one place you won&#8217;t find it at is Target. <strong>Ocean<\/strong> confirmed via Twitter that the project will not be sold by the retail giant. \u201cAlbum won&#8217;t be available at target,\u201d he wrote Wednesday. \u201cBlame it on a generational gap. best buy on deck though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Target explained that their choice not to carry the release was fueled by <strong>Ocean&#8217;s<\/strong> decision to prematurely drop the digital version. \u201cAt Target, we focus on offering our guests a wide assortment of physical CDs, so our selection of new releases is dedicated to physical CDs rather than titles that are realized digitally in advance of the street date,\u201d a spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old&#8217;s musical reign is evident, as his album is expected to push between 110,000-125,000 units its first week. Given the fact that the project\u00a0 had little promotion, and was also streamed on his Tumblr page, the aforementioned numbers are no small feat.<\/p>\n<p><em>Channel Orange<\/em> hits stores July 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Ocean&#8217;s Channel Orange debut quickly topped iTunes charts when it was released earlier in the week, but when the physical album is available one place you won&#8217;t find it at is Target. Ocean confirmed via Twitter that the project will not be sold by the retail giant. \u201cAlbum won&#8217;t be available at target,\u201d he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}