Promotional single

Single

A promotional single is a single that is made available to radio stations, nightclubs, music publications, and other media outlets by a record label to promote a commercial single or album. A song may be released as a promotional single even if no commercial version of the single is available to buy. An example is "Theme to St. Trinian's" by Girls Aloud, released as a promotional single for the movie St. Trinian's. The song was later removed as a single to avoid confusion with Girls Aloud's actual single "Call the Shots". Another example is the Stevie Wonder song "Isn't She Lovely" which was written about his newborn daughter, Aisha Morris. As Wonder was unwilling to cut the nearly 7 minute song down, Motown made their own 3:20 version available to radio stations.