Hank's album Ellen Hardcastle: release (2011)
project history · status: completed · last event: milestone (2011-07-20 (said on 2011-07-21, implied)) · last mentioned: 2011-11-14
Hank worked on his album Ellen Hardcastle for a year and a half and released it on 13 July 2011 with no pre-order; a week later it charted on Billboard.
Parts: John asks viewers to buy a physical copy of Ellen Hardcastle to get a ten-word Hank video (2011) · Hank: film a video of each physical Ellen Hardcastle buyer's ten-word script (2011) · Hank asks Ellen Hardcastle CD buyers to follow the secret track's instructions to appear in a music video with him (2011) · Hank invites viewers to buy his album Ellen Hardcastle via the link below (2011)
Told alongside: John asks Nerdfighters to prove Helen Hunt has seen Hank's song about her (2008) · The Harry Potter Alliance's Helping Haiti Heal raffle (2010)
About: Ellen Hardcastle, Alan Lastufka, LeakyCon, DFTBA Records, Project for Awesome, Billboard
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-05-02 | milestone | Hank says his next album will hopefully come out the month after this one, in June. (hedged) | Osama Bin Laden is Dead 00:03:46 |
| 2011-06-08 | milestone | Hank announces his long-overdue album is called Ellen Hardcastle, lists old and new songs, shows Alan Lastufka's cover art, and hopes to release it at LeakyCon and on DFTBA around July 13. (hedged) | Punishments, Floods, and Pink Hitler Babies 00:03:03 |
| 2011-07-01 | rule change | Hank says Ellen Hardcastle will have no pre-order, unlike John's book with its very long pre-order time; they have decided. (playful) | Humping the Town 00:02:54 |
| 2011-07-13 | outcome | Hank's album Ellen Hardcastle, a year and a half in the making and named after a P4A raffle winner, is released and available now. · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated | ELLEN HARDCASTLE IS HERE! A Reunion Video 00:00:41 |
| 2011-07-15 | milestone | Hank shows his album Ellen Hardcastle, thanks buyers and says he looks forward to making videos with their scripts. | Harry Freaking Potter 00:03:41 |
| 2011-07-20 (said on 2011-07-21, implied) | milestone | Ellen Hardcastle charts on Billboard; Billboard called Hank for information about the album. | HARDCASTLED! 00:03:36 |
| 2011-07-27 | looked back | John lists other Nerdfighter feats: getting Hank's album on the Billboard charts, chartering airplanes of medical supplies to Haiti, and getting Helen Hunt to hear the Helen Hunt song. | 150,000 Autographs 00:01:15 |
| 2011-11-14 | looked back | Hank shows his most recent album, Ellen Hardcastle, for sale via a link below; the new song isn't on it because he just wrote it. | T-Shirt and Jeans - A Song 00:03:28 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
What is said about it
7 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2011-06-08 · Punishments, Floods, and Pink Hitler Babies — announcement: Hank shows the album's cover art by Alan Lastufka. — 00:03:20
- 2011-06-08 · Punishments, Floods, and Pink Hitler Babies — announcement: Hank hopes to have the album at LeakyCon and on sale at DFTBA shortly after, around July 13. (hedged) — 00:03:30
- 2011-06-27 · My Hairy Ball of Anxious Anxiety — Hank is about to finish his album Ellen Hardcastle; he knows people will like it, but feels everyone will hate it and call it crap in the comments. — 00:01:08
- 2011-07-01 · Humping the Town — announcement: Hank says the montage music is a karaoke track of Shake a Booty from Ellen Hardcastle, produced by Luke Conard, his first dance song; the full version comes eventually. — 00:02:39
- 2011-07-13 · ELLEN HARDCASTLE IS HERE! A Reunion Video — announcement: John says Hank has worked on his album Ellen Hardcastle for a year and a half and named it after a nerdfighter who won a Project for Awesome raffle. — 00:00:21 · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated
- 2011-07-13 · ELLEN HARDCASTLE IS HERE! A Reunion Video — announcement: Hank confirms Ellen Hardcastle is out today and available now; he has an unopened box of copies downstairs. — 00:00:41
- 2011-07-20 (said on 2011-07-21, implied) · HARDCASTLED! — announcement: Hank acts out all 15 songs of Ellen Hardcastle with the giraffes in a minute and 20 seconds, saying the words were descriptions, not lyrics, which are online. (playful) — 00:01:15