Written for Kurrent Music
Published April 17th 2016
Pentatonix blog
At the end of last year, Pentatonix seemed to have succeeded in doing the best cross over ever seen in music. Not just because, technically, there was no music, but the cross over from being an a capella cover group to an an original a capella group had hardly been done before and for PTX, it was a definite success.
Their album competed with Demi Lovato’s album for the top spot on Billboard’s album chart – which PTX won – and, around the same time, PTX got recognized for their songwriting as well by inking a publishing deal. 2016 couldn’t have looked more promising, before it had even started.
But holding on to the success with their own original songs has proven to be a little more difficult than initially thought. After “Can’t Sleep Love”, the group’s been releasing cover songs again. Was the world not ready for the switch after all?
