text: have you noticed? all of the new releases in music and movies come out on tuesday. do you know the reason? in itunes new music come out on tuesdays. shelves of film stores and music stores get new stuff every tuesday...why is this? actually, new movies come out on friday. albums and videos come out on tuesday as a matter of tradition. it used to be that arbitron tracked artist sales by calling record stores. by calling on monday they knew they'd get weekend sales. redcord companied wised up and started releasing on tuesday to get a full week's worth of sales reported. now, of course, it's all electronic, so "new release tuesday" is just a tradition.