Sandy Patti, Twila Paris, Evie, Melanie Tunney, etc did skew to women, women 35+ back when they were popular. These singers were sort of the Anne Murray's, Karen Carpenter's of Christian music back then. So the women who were in to Anny Murray or the Carpenter's when they got saved and were looking for Christian music that wasn't hymns probably were the one's who bought these CCM artists records. Today those women are 50+. Those women probably are not as happy with CCM today as it has a "harsher" sound musically than back then, but then again radio be it secular or Christian isn't targeting anyone over 50 so those women will continue to be unhappy and will have to do as others do when left out in the cold by radio and buy CD's of their favorite artists unless one of the satellite radio services (XM or Sirius ) has an oldies CCM station.
> > > meaning dont you think they no longer like what women
> > liked
> > > 10 years ago..ok..try this..
> >
> > Hunh?
> >
> >
> >
> > > meaning dont you think they no longer like what women
> > liked
> > > 10 years ago..ok..try this..do you think a 28 year old
> > > female who listened to c+ c music factory in high school
>
> > > likes twila paris now??..or point of grace??
> >
> > If I'm guessing the meaning correctly....
> >
> > Well, first of all, 28 is a little young for C+C Music
> > Factory, but okay...
> >
> > No! A typical woman around 30 is not going to like Twila
> > Paris!
> >
> > Now, get ready for me to blow your mind and maybe even get
>
> > myself into trouble at the same time....
> >
> > I would dare say that a typical woman around 50 is not
> going
> > to like Twila Paris, either!
> >
> > A lot of the "big name" artists of the past weren't. They
>
> > didn't really sell that many albums, and, of the albums
> > sold, a number were....shoot, what are the words I'm
> looking
> > for?...."sympathy" or "guilt" or "default" buys based on a
>
> > sense of obligation. In addition, the radio stations
> that
> > played them, when measured against the successful stations
>
> > of today, had just about no listeners. This is another
> > excellent example of how "low usage" and "no usage" are
> > options that many of you don't seem to really consider --
> > the stations and the music was "so bad" (a relative term)
> > back then that people would consume them in very low
> > quantities
> >
> > People would claim to like Sand_ Patt_ (sorry, I never
> kept
> > up on the spelling changes), Larnelle Harris, and Twila
> > Paris, but their actions told another story. People
> "felt"
> > they "had to" say that they liked them...peer pressure,
> > guilt, and whatnot. However, real consumption was most
> > likely nowhere near claimed consumption, and it was
> > certainly nowhere what you see today without them.
> > Furthermore, nothing similar (trained-type voices
> performing
> > art-y songs) existed in the "real" marketplace, and I
> firmly
> > believe that the marketplace will supply where there is
> > demand. Therefore, I conclude that these artists were not
>
> > accessible to the general population and never as popular
> as
> > we were supposed to think they were, and I would even go
> so
> > far as to assert that stations playing them (including
> this
> > new Twila "Days Of Elijah") do so at a pretty good risk.
>
> >
>
> this is the same thing i feel about point of grace..i think
> people said they liked them because they were suppose
> too..because christians were suppose to like it. not that
> they really did. and i seriously hope twila, sandi and evie
>
never make it to radio again..zzzzzzzzzzzzz. i remember
> when third day was too hard for daytime..now they are on all
> the time..i guess times are changing. i once had a co worker
> get fired for plaing shine at 9:30 in the morning as filler
> music..(between programs). there was no music log for non
> music times..that was 1996.
> >
>
