Whether your tuning in terrestrial or satellite radio......I have always noticed the bias of today's stations even trying a single out on the air waves to see if the public would claim it would be a hit or not. Especially from a veteran super star artist. And one of the reasons for the downfall of both the radio and record industry is the poor or no promotion of the latest Guns N' Roses "Chinese Democracy". With all the hype of how long it to Axel to record it...does any format or CHR/Hot AC station even try to break or plug it? How would the public know if it's worth buying the whole CD without a station featuring it.
It receives a 15 minute of fame headline that it's available for release on a Tuesday.....and that's it. No airplay or attempt to break it.
And that takes me to the next step when the new Bruce Springsteen CD get's released I believe next month. I don't remember ever or barely hearing a cut on the last CD he released, it except for the sound system inside the Panda restaurant I was eating at.....(I think it was his latest release at the time ) will just go by the way for a 15 minute fame media hype announcements, and then that's it...no radio airplay. No break out.
Yes , I'm gonna hear a joker reply to me that people just prefer their older stuff, especially at concerts. So if they have a few more years up their sleave ....they still shouldn't bother recording anything new. Or we have an all rocker in town that plays a few cuts off the CD. The latter might be true....but the majority 12-54 does not primarily focus on what the rock station plays or happens to have have an all rock format in their market.. If it's not played on a mass appeal station....it will only fit for the narrowcast listener who will only purchase it. And the results usually are that it doesn't chart fairly or at all, ... and yes.... Nickleback will take over or contuinue as the greatest band of all time. I believe you can have Guns N' Roses fitting in on the same station today as Brittany Spears, Rhianna, All American Rejects, Marroon 5 etc.
It wasn't really not too long ago to have stations to want to be the first to play a no-brainer artist or famous artist FIRST in their market. But ...it's just one of the countless reasons why terrestrial and major labels will say bye bye.
It receives a 15 minute of fame headline that it's available for release on a Tuesday.....and that's it. No airplay or attempt to break it.
And that takes me to the next step when the new Bruce Springsteen CD get's released I believe next month. I don't remember ever or barely hearing a cut on the last CD he released, it except for the sound system inside the Panda restaurant I was eating at.....(I think it was his latest release at the time ) will just go by the way for a 15 minute fame media hype announcements, and then that's it...no radio airplay. No break out.
Yes , I'm gonna hear a joker reply to me that people just prefer their older stuff, especially at concerts. So if they have a few more years up their sleave ....they still shouldn't bother recording anything new. Or we have an all rocker in town that plays a few cuts off the CD. The latter might be true....but the majority 12-54 does not primarily focus on what the rock station plays or happens to have have an all rock format in their market.. If it's not played on a mass appeal station....it will only fit for the narrowcast listener who will only purchase it. And the results usually are that it doesn't chart fairly or at all, ... and yes.... Nickleback will take over or contuinue as the greatest band of all time. I believe you can have Guns N' Roses fitting in on the same station today as Brittany Spears, Rhianna, All American Rejects, Marroon 5 etc.
It wasn't really not too long ago to have stations to want to be the first to play a no-brainer artist or famous artist FIRST in their market. But ...it's just one of the countless reasons why terrestrial and major labels will say bye bye.
