Was "Tom's Diner" an official single??

[Dinirocal]

This release confuses me a bit.  I can't never identify if it was a proper single or just a promotional song.

The song never got a big or official announcement, wasn't sent to Radio adds or anything, however an official audio video was uploaded on Britney's VEVO channel as the song got a special release on itunes with its own cover, an official lyrics video which also seemed like an animated music video was eventually released, but the song was never properly treated.

was it an official single or was it just a promotional song like "And then we kiss" or "Private show" were? 

[Spearsfan]

I think he wanted it as a single but Britney doesn't want to do anything so it never went any where tbh

I look at it as a promo single 

[MissSpearsSaysSo]

I consider it to be an official single. It was download only, but didn't it also have an official lyric video?

[Dinirocal]

2 hours ago, MissSpearsSaysSo said:

I consider it to be an official single. It was download only, but didn't it also have an official lyric video?

Yes, it got an official lyric video (a pretty cool one actually). Thats what confuses me, the song got some stuff that singles get, but at the same time it had a lot of signs that it wasn't a single. 

Its like it was half-single / half-promo song LOL.  Its her hardest song to identify as such IMO. 

[notacamwhore]

6 minutes ago, MissSpearsSaysSo said:

I consider it to be an official single. It was download only, but didn't it also have an official lyric video?

Aren't all singles download only these days? Where can you buy CD singles? lol 

[pablitonizer]

It actually peaked at #7 in Argentina's most famous radio 

 

 

Evita Spears 

[Guest Nick Jonas]

Yes, but it flopped, so everyone forgot about it, like most of Britney's output since 2013 

[sue the expectional earner]

1 minute ago, Nick Jonas said:

Yes, but it flopped, so everyone forgot about it, like most of Britney's output since 2013 

flopped? it sold more than everything on his album  

[Guest Nick Jonas]

2 minutes ago, sue the expectional earner said:

flopped? it sold more than everything on his album  

Where? 

I think the Kylie single and even Sia's were bigger sellers? 

[BRING THE NOISE]

21 minutes ago, pablitonizer said:

It actually peaked at #7 in Argentina's most famous radio 

 

 

Evita Spears 

No sabía! Ni Make Me llegó a ese puesto en los40 jaja. 
Cada tanto la siguen pasando!

[alanmanga]

ThIS animated lyric video is FAN MADE. I think we can consider this a promotional single since it does not have a proper music video. 

[pablitonizer]

Just now, BRING THE NOISE said:

No sabía! Ni Make Me llegó a ese puesto en los40 jaja. 
Cada tanto la siguen pasando!

When will Slumber Flop? 

[Guest Nick Jonas]

1 minute ago, alanmanga said:

ThIS animated lyric video is FAN MADE. I think we can consider this a promotional single since it does not have a proper music video. 

Britney and promotion don't mix sis. 

[Dinirocal]

3 hours ago, Nick Jonas said:

Where? 

I think the Kylie single and even Sia's were bigger sellers? 

"Tom's diner" became Giorgio's best selling digital song in US

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6612674/giorgio-moroder-returns-dance-charts?utm_source=twitter

[Britney's Blackout]

Tom's Diner..

[Dinirocal]

3 hours ago, alanmanga said:

ThIS animated lyric video is FAN MADE. I think we can consider this a promotional single since it does not have a proper music video. 

 

This one is the official one, and its on Giorgio's channel:

 

[Seel]

[MissSpearsSaysSo]

1 hour ago, notacamwhore said:

Aren't all singles download only these days? Where can you buy CD singles? lol 

CD singles are still quite popular in Asia and a handful of European countries like Germany.   

And don't forget Britney's last CD single was released only 2 years ago.  

[Isla]

Think it was just a promo single. 

[PokéSpears]

don't remind me of that  

I think it was a kind of single, because it was "released" with those remixes and such, but without a music video, it's as if it wasn't  

The audio clip on her channel doesn't make it a single, because other songs have been uploaded too (NTIFY, ISBE). The lyric video either, because other songs, not Britney's, but other artists upload lyric videos as if their lives depended on it, and they aren't singles most of the times. But the release itself, independent of the album, is what I would consider that makes it a single, but I don't know if that's the definition of promotional single, since it wasn't sent to radio. 

In the other hand, Slumber Party had a videoclip, without being released as a single per se. And even though it later got a remix EP, it doesn't even include the standard song, so that was just a remix EP, not a single. But again, I think the videoclip is more powerful than anything else to consider a song a single.