The Tuesday after Christmas is typically one of the quietest album release dates of the calendar year, with most other titles out in time to become stocking stuffers. “Have It All,” Jesse McCartney’s fourth effort on Hollywood Records, is one of the only major releases slated to hit stores on Dec. 28 – but the pop singer is comfortable having that week all to himself.
“Honestly, I don’t think it really matters what week the album is released,” McCartney says. “I’d rather have a nice, steady build than an immediate peak. I just want to keep saturating the market and radio with as many hit records as I can.”
An album with consistent sales and slow-growing singles wouldn’t be an anomaly for McCartney, who has become a steady pop presence after breaking out with boy band Dream Street in the early ’00s. The title track to 2005 album “Beautiful Soul” peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100, while his last effort, 2008′s “Departure,” has sold 257,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and spawned two singles (“Leavin’ ” and “How Do You Sleep”) that lingered in the top 40.
As bouncy new single “Shake” continues to grow at radio, McCartney has positioned himself to fill a void among male pop artists left by another boy band member-turned-solo star.
“[Jesse] has the ability to push himself into that Justin Timberlake world,” says producer Sean Garrett, who worked on three album tracks. “Justin put out records that show his fearlessness, and Jesse has songs on this album that give him that same validity.”
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