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Post by tim on Feb 4, 2014 12:22:51 GMT -5
^"Backseat of a Greyhound Bus" is my favorite song from Sara Evans, Ten Pound Hammer. Shame on radio for not giving it the attention that song deserved. I'm still hearing IGAC daily here in Austin and glad to see this one FINALLY make it into the top 40.
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Post by sabre14 on Feb 4, 2014 12:32:59 GMT -5
^"Backseat of a Greyhound Bus" is my favorite song from Sara Evans, Ten Pound Hammer. Shame on radio for not giving it the attention that song deserved. I'm still hearing IGAC daily here in Austin and glad to see this one FINALLY make it into the top 40. "Backseat Of A Greyhound Bus" is my favorite Sara song as well. To me that was her best vocal performance, and she's had some dandies. As for "I Got A Car", it seems like I'm pessimistic one week and cautiously optimistic the next. Hopefully the little house cleaning we're getting on the charts these couple weeks will help George break through...probably not, but a guy can dream can't he?
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Post by Marv on Feb 4, 2014 12:50:52 GMT -5
There's no doubt in my mind that both George Strait and Alan Jackson have been ruthlessly shoved off the air at country radio, and the (insert your own expletive HERE) can be summarized in three words; those three words are Florida-Georgia Line, and here's why.
1)---As i pointed out recently, 'Cruise' became the first song EVER to finish #1 for the year on the year-end R&R/Mediabase/Country Aircheck chart without topping any weekly chart during the year in which it wound up #1 for the year. The reason can easily be explained in the unprecedented levels of recurrent airplay which 'Cruise' and their two follow-up singles received; as I also pointed out previously, the recurrent airplay for 'Cruise' was of such an abnormally high level for a #1 song by a new artist that the song which followed it to #1 at Mediabase by another new artist (Beer Money) finished 32nd for the year and well over 40,000 spins behind 'Cruise', another unprecedented for two tunes which each only spent two weeks at #1.
2)---As I pointed out last Memorial Day Weekend at the halfway mark of the 2013 chart year, and about a month or so before 'One Of Those Nights' finally overtook 'Better Dig Two' in spins after overcoming a deficit in the neighborhood of 6,000 spins in the race to finish #1 for the year at Mediabase, it suddenly dawned on me that the level of recurrent airplay for 'Cruise' was indeed unprecedented, and that with the recurrent airplay for 'Cruise' declining extremely slowly as opposed to a typical #1 single by most format newcomers with a couple of recent exceptions, with 'Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not? immediately coming to mind. Therefore it dawned on me that neither Tim nor The Band Perry had a shot at finishing #1 with the year's #1 single, and the same feeling also applied to fast charging second-half-of-the-year smashes such as 'Wagon Wheel' and 'Mama's Broken Heart', as well as another tune by a (relatively) new artist which country radio never REALLY got rid of a la 'Cruise', that being 'Runnin' Outta Moonlight'.
It finally dawned on me that Tim's chance of making history by becoming the first country artist to have the #1 single of the year in three different decades as well as winding up as the most-played artist of the year, also in three different decades (1997/1998/2003) were about to go bye-bye thanks to FGL and their massive levels of recurrent airplay for 'Cruise'.
3)---As a result of the so-called 'bro-country' stuff assaulting our eardrums these days, it's extremely disappointing to myself and others that George, Alan, Lee Ann Womack and many other unanimously revered practitioners of traditional country music have indeed been thrown overboard airplay-wise for no remotely intelligent reason.
4)---As a recent article in the WSJ pointed out as terrestrial radio continues its battle with Spotify and other sources of music for listeners, 'Wagon Wheel' was the most-played song of 2013 on country radio during the calendar year, receiving 229,633 spins, as opposed to the most-played song on country radio a decade ago, 'My Front Porch Lookin' In', which accumulated 162,519 plays.
FWIW, the most-played tune at top 40 radio last year, 'Blurred Lines', received 749,633 spins in the 180 markets which Mediabase covers; a decade ago, another multi-format chart-topping smash, 'When I'm Gone' by 3 Doors Down, received 442,160 spins that year. Country radio has adopted the top 40 programming mantra of playing the hits and playing them a lot, even at the expense of new artists with much better material than lots of the horrendous stuff which reaches the airwaves at the top two music formats out there.
I personally think country radio last year was substantially worse than it was a decade ago, and as the always-trusty jhomes87 stated, the 'mongrel chart' is indeed a chart which I also pay no attention; for me it's the equivalent of excruciating, nails-across-the-chalkboard noise such as 'Cruise', 'Truck Yeah', 'Feel Like A Rockstar', '1994', 'Bobbi With An I', 'Me And My Gang' and too many other excruciating tunes by too many artists who ought to know better than to pollute the airwaves with such woeful schlock.
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Post by Kentucky25 on Feb 4, 2014 13:29:13 GMT -5
Up to 36, with a disappointing Billboard gain of 123k. That's worse than we were all expecting, I'm sure. Songs with the word "car" in the title aren't translating well to Billboard here in 2014. Should change the title to I Got A Bus. An answer song to Sara Evans' underrated "Backseat of a Greyhound Bus"? That might work. I immediately made a weird lyric connection of "That's My Kinda Night" and this "I Got a Bus"... "I got that real good feel good stuff, up under the seat of big yellow school bus" Lol...If LB sang it, I have to say it'd probably go to number one these days.
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Post by rsmatto on Feb 4, 2014 16:36:35 GMT -5
There's no doubt in my mind that both George Strait and Alan Jackson have been ruthlessly shoved off the air at country radio, and the (insert your own expletive HERE) can be summarized in three words; those three words are Florida-Georgia Line, and here's why. 1)---As i pointed out recently, 'Cruise' became the first song EVER to finish #1 for the year on the year-end R&R/Mediabase/Country Aircheck chart without topping any weekly chart during the year in which it wound up #1 for the year. The reason can easily be explained in the unprecedented levels of recurrent airplay which 'Cruise' and their two follow-up singles received; as I also pointed out previously, the recurrent airplay for 'Cruise' was of such an abnormally high level for a #1 song by a new artist that the song which followed it to #1 at Mediabase by another new artist (Beer Money) finished 32nd for the year and well over 40,000 spins behind 'Cruise', another unprecedented for two tunes which each only spent two weeks at #1. 2)---As I pointed out last Memorial Day Weekend at the halfway mark of the 2013 chart year, and about a month or so before 'One Of Those Nights' finally overtook 'Better Dig Two' in spins after overcoming a deficit in the neighborhood of 6,000 spins in the race to finish #1 for the year at Mediabase, it suddenly dawned on me that the level of recurrent airplay for 'Cruise' was indeed unprecedented, and that with the recurrent airplay for 'Cruise' declining extremely slowly as opposed to a typical #1 single by most format newcomers with a couple of recent exceptions, with 'Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not? immediately coming to mind. Therefore it dawned on me that neither Tim nor The Band Perry had a shot at finishing #1 with the year's #1 single, and the same feeling also applied to fast charging second-half-of-the-year smashes such as 'Wagon Wheel' and 'Mama's Broken Heart', as well as another tune by a (relatively) new artist which country radio never REALLY got rid of a la 'Cruise', that being 'Runnin' Outta Moonlight'. It finally dawned on me that Tim's chance of making history by becoming the first country artist to have the #1 single of the year in three different decades as well as winding up as the most-played artist of the year, also in three different decades (1997/1998/2003) were about to go bye-bye thanks to FGL and their massive levels of recurrent airplay for 'Cruise'. 3)---As a result of the so-called 'bro-country' stuff assaulting our eardrums these days, it's extremely disappointing to myself and others that George, Alan, Lee Ann Womack and many other unanimously revered practitioners of traditional country music have indeed been thrown overboard airplay-wise for no remotely intelligent reason. 4)---As a recent article in the WSJ pointed out as terrestrial radio continues its battle with Spotify and other sources of music for listeners, 'Wagon Wheel' was the most-played song of 2013 on country radio during the calendar year, receiving 229,633 spins, as opposed to the most-played song on country radio a decade ago, 'My Front Porch Lookin' In', which accumulated 162,519 plays. FWIW, the most-played tune at top 40 radio last year, 'Blurred Lines', received 749,633 spins in the 180 markets which Mediabase covers; a decade ago, another multi-format chart-topping smash, 'When I'm Gone' by 3 Doors Down, received 442,160 spins that year. Country radio has adopted the top 40 programming mantra of playing the hits and playing them a lot, even at the expense of new artists with much better material than lots of the horrendous stuff which reaches the airwaves at the top two music formats out there. I personally think country radio last year was substantially worse than it was a decade ago, and as the always-trusty jhomes87 stated, the 'mongrel chart' is indeed a chart which I also pay no attention; for me it's the equivalent of excruciating, nails-across-the-chalkboard noise such as 'Cruise', 'Truck Yeah', 'Feel Like A Rockstar', '1994', 'Bobbi With An I', 'Me And My Gang' and too many other excruciating tunes by too many artists who ought to know better than to pollute the airwaves with such woeful schlock. A response to #1, "Love Like Crazy" was #1 for the year on those charts without ever being a #1 single in any week. So it's not just because of FGL. A response to #3: Traditional country is in a downward trend and it may never come back but Radio's anything but if not 'intelligent' about it. They research and consult so much that they have intelligent reasoning behind the replacement of 'unanimously revered' "traditional" stars with the new wave, they have statistical evidence that comes from the research, the consulting and of course album sales pay a part too. As for adopting the top 40 mantra of playing the hits and playing them a lot, that's not a surprise because most of the folks programming these stations have Pop backgrounds.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2014 16:44:36 GMT -5
^"Love Like Crazy" wound up #1 on Billboard's year-end list, not Aircheck's (like Marv was posting about). And the point Marv was trying to make is that "Cruise" peaked at #1 in December 2012 and yet finished the 2013 year-end list at #1...it was all based off substantial recurrent airplay. And he is absolutely correct...there has never been such a weird situation, where a song that was virtually absent from the 'current' charts for the entire year still wound up #1 for that year (because of recurrent airplay). Today's country radio seems to have an allergy to actual country music, as 43dudleyvillas recently pointed out. They are more willing to play hard rock and hip-hop influenced "country" songs than they are to play actual country stuff. And of course there's the ageism thing...obviously it's way worse for women than it is for men (heck, younger women can hardly get played), but country radio won't play the older artists anymore. They're shoving George out the door as we speak, and Toby Keith is on his heels. Alan Jackson probably won't get another top 30 hit unless he's the featured artist on some younger act's song a la "As She's Walking Away". Even guys like Kenny and Brad have been struggling a bit because the airwaves are getting more and more crowded with the Luke Bryan/FGL type of stuff, and the newer artists that are emulating that sound. That means less and less airplay for older artists, for females, and for traditionalists.
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Post by rsmatto on Feb 4, 2014 16:57:58 GMT -5
Ahh, Billboard and not Aircheck. I can see the argument for that. I still think it's more than just FGL or even "Bro country." As for 'ageism,' The genre had routinely kicked out those aged 60 or older for years. In fact, It used to be 50 or so except for one or two stars like Don Williams or Willie Nelson from time to time. This is nothing new (which I know you know jhomes87, but others may not). Artists have a window of time for their popularity on mainstream radio. George Strait, Alan Jackson, probably Toby Keith, Faith Hill and more are aging out. Not that they all should but for consistent hits? It's been that way for a long time and it always will be this way. This isn't to say that George or Toby or even Faith can't come back with a huge hit given their label situations but it'll be more rare. Alan, it seems, doesn't really care to court radio anymore after the cold shoulder he got with the first EMI Nashville album. Do we need some different stations or perhaps a segmenting of Country into smaller, select genre stations, I'd say we do so that "Traditional" or at least more acoustic-based songs with pretty melodies can get airplay, but I know corporations don't really want that. They're all about the almighty buck of ad revenue and to keep people listening to the commercials.
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Post by McCreerian on Feb 4, 2014 17:00:02 GMT -5
^"Love Like Crazy" wound up #1 on Billboard's year-end list, not Aircheck's (like Marv was posting about). And the point Marv was trying to make is that "Cruise" peaked at #1 in December 2012 and yet finished the 2013 year-end list at #1...it was all based off substantial recurrent airplay. And he is absolutely correct...there has never been such a weird situation, where a song that was virtually absent from the 'current' charts for the entire year still wound up #1 for that year (because of recurrent airplay). Today's country radio seems to have an allergy to actual country music, as 43dudleyvillas recently pointed out. They are more willing to play hard rock and hip-hop influenced "country" songs than they are to play actual country stuff. And of course there's the ageism thing...obviously it's way worse for women than it is for men (heck, younger women can hardly get played), but country radio won't play the older artists anymore. They're shoving George out the door as we speak, and Toby Keith is on his heels. Alan Jackson probably won't get another top 30 hit unless he's the featured artist on some younger act's song a la "As She's Walking Away". Even guys like Kenny and Brad have been struggling a bit because the airwaves are getting more and more crowded with the Luke Bryan/FGL type of stuff, and the newer artists that are emulating that sound. That means less and less airplay for older artists, for females, and for traditionalists. Which is why I gave up on my local radio stations a long time ago. I've given up on Country radio cause Country radio has given up on it's foundation that became a part of me growing up when I fell in love with it. I have no problem with older acts not being played as much. It happens every decade. George Jones was replaced by Alan Jackson on Country radio in the 90s. Dolly Parton was replaced by Reba as the Country radio queen in the 90s. But no one is replacing Alan Jackson. Some can argue that Carrie replaced Reba however. George Strait never was replaced but he was copied by the "hat acts" that emerged after his decade of success in the 80s. The point is no one is replacing the older traditional acts as "A list" radio artists. Yes there is plenty of tradition left but it won't be found with the new stars radio is willing to play. Even if a new artist want to do tradition he/she will have to conform to radio's pop ways if they want to sell their soul for true success. Even some of the 00's hitmakers like Brad, Chris Young, Tim, etc have changed their sound to conform in order to stay on radio and compete. I as someone born and bred traditional Country just can't accept that when I listen to the radio, so I just don't anymore. And I just can't understand why Pop radio's biggest breakout stars have 90% been women over the last 5 years but that is not happening in Country, especially if a lot of Country radio programmers came from Pop radio. Seriously if a 17 y/o New Zealand girl, Lorde, can be the latest breakout of Top 40 radio, then why can't Kacey get a #1 hit in Country?
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Post by whynotnow on Feb 4, 2014 17:08:42 GMT -5
I asked a program manager once, how their research was done. I was told they randomly call and ask listeners what songs they liked out of a list of song suggestions. Meaning they were given one or two songs from an artist and asked which was their preference. Great research. You want to hang or be shot.? Not sure all research is done this way, but if so, it would explain a lot. Never did find out who the lucky people were who they asked, or how many out of a certain area. What I do know, is that you are not able to call a station anymore and request a song, you are not able to email a DJ and request a song, and the day of communication between the listener and the stations is a thing of the past. So in effect, the "listener" has no say, and the people researched probably are not necessarily country fans or radio listeners. Its paramount to an attorney never asking a witness a question he does not already know the answer to.
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Post by Zazie on Feb 4, 2014 22:18:03 GMT -5
I have a traditional country station in my metropolitan area, playing songs from the 50's, 60's, and 70's. They sell ads although I don't know how much money they make. In addition, there are 3 other stations playing current stuff. (I'm defining "metro area" broadly.) I can picture a market for stations playing the 80's, 90's, and 00's. In fact, I suspect that that kind of station would clobber the current station in a head-to-head battle, if there could be one. (Well, I can't prove that with market research. I just think it.)
I'm thinking that country station 1 could advertise: "We play early Haggard."
And country station 2 could advertise: We play late Haggard."
Whereas the contemporary station could advertise: "We namecheck Haggard. And buddy, we're not exactly sure who he is. Was. Whatever."
Those are the competing market segments.... I know which two I'd listen to.
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Post by kirkw on Feb 5, 2014 12:14:42 GMT -5
Terrestrial radio is dying. We're close to a time, if we're not there already, where artists won't need radio airplay to sell their music. Best thing for new artists trying to break in is play your music live in front of whatever audiences you can and if you're good, you'll draw a crowd. The recorded music is out there to be sampled in many different forms now, and if it's good people will talk about it, tweet about it and buy it. Once the new business model for selling music is perfected, artists like Kacey Musgraves and Charlie Worsham will be hugely successful even if they aren't played on what we've known as country radio which is on track to irrelevancy in the grand scheme.
Why listen to junk on your car radio when the choices and convenience to the good music are increasing with each passing day? It's why I'm not concerned about the future for artists wanting to make good country music and be financially successful. The business side will get solved.
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Post by zaclord 🌈 on Feb 5, 2014 13:30:11 GMT -5
Terrestrial radio is dying. We're close to a time, if we're not there already, where artists won't need radio airplay to sell their music. Best thing for new artists trying to break in is play your music live in front of whatever audiences you can and if you're good, you'll draw a crowd. The recorded music is out there to be sampled in many different forms now, and if it's good people will talk about it, tweet about it and buy it. Once the new business model for selling music is perfected, artists like Kacey Musgraves and Charlie Worsham will be hugely successful even if they aren't played on what we've known as country radio which is on track to irrelevancy in the grand scheme. Why listen to junk on your car radio when the choices and convenience to the good music are increasing with each passing day? It's why I'm not concerned about the future for artists wanting to make good country music and be financially successful. The business side will get solved. While you may be right that in some instances, some artists may be able to sell a decent amount of albums/singles without the help from radio. Kacey Musgraves is a prime example, as you mentioned. However, terrestrial radio is not dying, nor will it anytime soon. No artist is going to sell albums or singles like Taylor Swift or Florida Georgia Line or Luke Bryan unless they get substantial radio airplay. Kacey has certainly been doing quite well despite her radio success - an almost gold certified album off of #10 hit, a top 30 hit, and another song that barely scraped the top 50; but that top 10 and top 30 hit certainly did help sell some amount of records. What about other great artists that are being ignored by radio? Brandy Clark? Ashley Monroe? These artists have virtually no radio success and where has that gotten them? A couple of articles about how great their music is, but still minimal sales. So Kacey may be somewhat of an exception to the rule, but how many artists HAVE broken through due to radio success? FGL, Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, Taylor Swift, Jake Owen, Hunter Hayes, Little Big Town, etc. would all be nowhere if radio did not play them - at least to some extent. Sure, there may be some platforms other than radio for artists to get their name out there (critical acclaim, social media, television), but country radio still holds the key for ultimate success in this business and by no means is it on the track to irrelevancy any time in the near future.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2014 21:05:16 GMT -5
I think kirkw brings up some interesting points. The way I interpreted it is that new artists like Kacey and Charlie would be able to sell more if/when terrestrial radio is no longer the centerpiece of the business model. Basically, if the prominence of radio continues to diminish, then everybody--even the Luke Bryans, FGL's, and Taylors--will be on a bit more of a level playing field because they won't be getting constant airplay. Obviously artists that are currently "big" at radio would have a head-start, but I think, in the hypothetical situation in which radio is essentially gone, people that want to listen to music will go out and find what they truly like, rather than having to listen to the radio telling them what's popular. Most people that are casual listeners don't mind the radio, even if they only like 7-8 songs out of a 10-song sample. That's still pretty good, right? But if radio stations were to fold and people had to turn to other sources to listen to music, it's quite possible that they could wind up liking all 10 songs in a sample, and that's better than what radio can offer. Obviously it's true that radio broke all those artists when they were new, but I think kirkw was saying that if/when terrestrial radio isn't the main centerpiece in the business model anymore, then new artists will be able to get their music out faster and try to 'break through' via other means. It's really no different than digital/streaming stuff taking over for album sales. Terrestrial radio won't last forever. Years ago people had radios in their homes, but now not many people do anymore (or at least, they don't listen to them at home anymore). Most people listen when they are in their cars, but some newer cars are being built with streaming services or ways to bypass the stations on the FM dial while still allowing people to listen to music very easily. Honestly, if radio comes crashing down, it will probably help a lot of artists, even some of the ones that they do play at least somewhat regularly. I'm not anti-radio by any means (although I do think it's way too corporate-controlled these days and thus, narrow-minded), and I generally think the folks at radio try to do their best, but there are too many artists for radio to be able to give all of them a decent shot at airplay (and lord knows they've tried, given that there's a different #1 song every week at Mediabase), and it's become way too much about the business side of things and less about the musical/art aspects...and of course that's because radio needs to function in a way in which they make money. A lot of the big corporate companies are deep in debt, though. I don't see terrestrial radio disappearing anytime real soon, but I wouldn't be surprised if things start falling apart at some point. Companies like Clear Channel and Cumulus came along and bought up all the independent stations when those stations could no longer make a profit, but that doesn't mean that the corporate business model will be successful in the long run.
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Post by dajross6 on Feb 6, 2014 11:49:17 GMT -5
If radio come crashing down, PR, advertising, and social media will become so important and honestly levels the playing field. Whether that's even good is another question altogether. Personally, I like being fed what's "popular" via radio instead of having to go out and see what all the 'kids' are listening to. I'm getting too old and busy to really be a trendsetter on new music and I can't be the only one. There was a time when I was that person showing my friends a brand new song they just had to listen to.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I don't really want things to change. I'm scared of a time where a no-name artist has this amazing song, but I don't know about it because it's only streamed online everywhere and is not tracked on an airplay chart. Maybe a streaming chart, but that seems even more biased than the current airplay chart if labels decide to pay Spotify/Pandora/etc to spin their songs more. I understand fans get to pick what they are listening to, but suggested music is a big part of it.
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Post by kirkw on Feb 7, 2014 11:48:56 GMT -5
It's my feeling that good music will win out in the long run because of the endless choices of organized and targeted streaming that will be available on everyone's car radio. Won't be any need to listen to any song that's poor because of the inconvenience of flipping the channel. With the increased competition for listeners, the quality must go up and it will. Playlists on any outlet will become much more targeted to any taste and less varied and "mainstream." Those of us who enjoy pure country will have no problem being exposed to that and the attention artists recording that type of sound goes up as technology improves with streaming audio in the car. It will certainly be a win-win for everyone except those who enjoy the local aspect over-the-air radio brings. I suspect they'll be forced to change to a better quality song rotation to keep up and stay in business.
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Post by rsmatto on Feb 7, 2014 15:41:49 GMT -5
If radio come crashing down, PR, advertising, and social media will become so important and honestly levels the playing field. Whether that's even good is another question altogether. Personally, I like being fed what's "popular" via radio instead of having to go out and see what all the 'kids' are listening to. I'm getting too old and busy to really be a trendsetter on new music and I can't be the only one. There was a time when I was that person showing my friends a brand new song they just had to listen to. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I don't really want things to change. I'm scared of a time where a no-name artist has this amazing song, but I don't know about it because it's only streamed online everywhere and is not tracked on an airplay chart. Maybe a streaming chart, but that seems even more biased than the current airplay chart if labels decide to pay Spotify/Pandora/etc to spin their songs more. I understand fans get to pick what they are listening to, but suggested music is a big part of it. Someone save me from new shiny things :( It'd bring up a new time of curators like Beats has created and what we try to do with Roughstock, cover lots of stuff and now we're even doing weekly playlists of songs we love (not always singles) using Spotify. It's a changing world and coming up with ways to promote artists/songs is a challenge but with the Internet and streaming services/curators, we can help artists gain attention and traction. I've always LOVED discovering/sharing new artists with people and that's one of my favorite things I get to do with Roughstock. A good example of nobody hearing an amazing song was "Say Something." Ian from A Great Big World wrote and originally released that song as a struggling solo artist and 4 years later it's a massive hit.
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Post by bboat11 on Feb 9, 2014 16:59:46 GMT -5
I have heard this song on the radio about four times in the last three nights :) Before that, I had yet to hear it even once! So I take that as a very good sign. My station is officially willing to start considering jumping on board, it looks like!
Oh man, that first time I heard this on the radio finally, I was so shocked that I didn't even recognize the song until that distinctive guitar riff right before he starts singing. It was a beautiful moment of realization.
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Post by sabre14 on Feb 9, 2014 17:15:22 GMT -5
The first time I heard this on my local station (WYRK) about two weeks ago, it took me a few seconds to realize it wasn't one of my burnt CD's, and I was indeed hearing this on the radio . "I Got A Car's" numbers are still nothing to scream to the hilltops about, but I'm so glad there will be 6 songs over the next 7 days officially going recurrent on Mediabase (David Nail, Zac Brown Band, Jon Pardi, Cassadee Pope, The Band Perry, Dustin Lynch). Along with potentially Leah Turner falling below George."Take The Keys" has been hanging on by a thread lately with little to minimal gains. I like many have resorted to the fact that the best case scenario for "IGAC" will be top 25 or so and that will be it, but I still will be following it's progress on a daily basis just like I've done since it entered the top 60.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2014 17:20:02 GMT -5
Countdown spins from Bob Kingsley's CT40 and Kix Brooks' ACC are/will be on the way today. FGL, Miranda, and Hunter are all ahead on MB now and Jake Owen is coming pretty fast. George is down there on the chart, relegated to new artist status, or so it seems based on how slowly this one is climbing. But country radio has changed so much in the past few years, and George hasn't really changed with them (thank goodness for that, even though it means less airplay). Oh well, like sabre14, I'll be following this one as long as it's on the chart.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Feb 9, 2014 18:51:51 GMT -5
I've heard this song a few times on the radio now as well recently. Hope that it can stay afloat and keep moving up, albeit slow.
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Post by Marv on Feb 10, 2014 1:24:51 GMT -5
Terrestrial radio still reaches over 92% of the nation on a weekly basis, and that percentage has barely budged for several years running; there's no indication so far that Spotify & other entities will demolish radio listening in a devastating manner similar to what Blockbsuter did to Saturday night TV viewing levels, yet we all know what happened to Blockbuster, while TV is still around, albeit with dwindling audiences year after year.
Country radio has really changed in the six years since 'Small Town Southern Man' and 'I Saw God Today' finished #2 and #3 for the year behind 'Just Got Started Lovin' You', hasn't it?
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Post by kirkw on Feb 10, 2014 12:59:11 GMT -5
Terrestrial radio still reaches over 92% of the nation on a weekly basis, and that percentage has barely budged for several years running; there's no indication so far that Spotify & other entities will demolish radio listening in a devastating manner similar to what Blockbsuter did to Saturday night TV viewing levels, yet we all know what happened to Blockbuster, while TV is still around, albeit with dwindling audiences year after year. Country radio has really changed in the six years since 'Small Town Southern Man' and 'I Saw God Today' finished #2 and #3 for the year behind 'Just Got Started Lovin' You', hasn't it? Of course terrestrial radio still has that reach now, but what happens when internet and streaming technology advance to the point convenience matches access to over-the air radio in your car. We're not there yet, but it's only a matter of time and when that happens, the rising number of choices will put the squeeze on country radio as we now have it due to the lower quality of music that's played in that format where it's not about the music anymore. Listeners will go to outlets where it is about the music and the competition will drive up the quality of good country music. There's still a huge appetite for it despite what young programmers who really don't like country music would have us believe.
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Post by onebuffalo on Feb 10, 2014 13:49:37 GMT -5
Country radio has really changed in the six years since 'Small Town Southern Man' and 'I Saw God Today' finished #2 and #3 for the year behind 'Just Got Started Lovin' You', hasn't it?
I'll go back even further. Country radio has really changed since My Heart by Ronnie Milsap was the biggest hit of 1980.
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Post by onebuffalo on Feb 10, 2014 13:53:05 GMT -5
The first time I heard this on my local station (WYRK) about two weeks ago, it took me a few seconds to realize it wasn't one of my burnt CD's, and I was indeed hearing this on the radio . "I Got A Car's" numbers are still nothing to scream to the hilltops about, but I'm so glad there will be 6 songs over the next 7 days officially going recurrent on Mediabase (David Nail, Zac Brown Band, Jon Pardi, Cassadee Pope, The Band Perry, Dustin Lynch). Along with potentially Leah Turner falling below George."Take The Keys" has been hanging on by a thread lately with little to minimal gains. I like many have resorted to the fact that the best case scenario for "IGAC" will be top 25 or so and that will be it, but I still will be following it's progress on a daily basis just like I've done since it entered the top 60. WYRK has I Got A Car at #33 for the week. It was spun 14 times and 120,000 people heard it. Hope that was helpful!
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Post by whynotnow on Feb 10, 2014 21:54:33 GMT -5
The first time I heard this on my local station (WYRK) about two weeks ago, it took me a few seconds to realize it wasn't one of my burnt CD's, and I was indeed hearing this on the radio . "I Got A Car's" numbers are still nothing to scream to the hilltops about, but I'm so glad there will be 6 songs over the next 7 days officially going recurrent on Mediabase (David Nail, Zac Brown Band, Jon Pardi, Cassadee Pope, The Band Perry, Dustin Lynch). Along with potentially Leah Turner falling below George."Take The Keys" has been hanging on by a thread lately with little to minimal gains. I like many have resorted to the fact that the best case scenario for "IGAC" will be top 25 or so and that will be it, but I still will be following it's progress on a daily basis just like I've done since it entered the top 60. WYRK has I Got A Car at #33 for the week. It was spun 14 times and 120,000 people heard it. Hope that was helpful! Nice to hear. Now if only his home town station would play it more then once a week
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Post by dajross6 on Feb 11, 2014 0:40:08 GMT -5
Which charts do the San Antonio stations count on? Mediabase?
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Post by sabre14 on Feb 11, 2014 0:47:45 GMT -5
Which charts do the San Antonio stations count on? Mediabase? San Antonio has two Mediabase monitored stations. KAJA, and KCYY. KCYY reported 12 spins for "I Got A Car" and KAJA doesn't have him listed within the top 50 which means if he's been added, he's gotten less than 10 spins this week.
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Post by dajross6 on Feb 11, 2014 0:53:28 GMT -5
To be fair, I don't even listen to either station as long as I have Sirius XM. It's the commercials that kill me.
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Post by sabre14 on Feb 11, 2014 0:58:55 GMT -5
To be fair, I don't even listen to either station as long as I have Sirius XM. It's the commercials that kill me. Yeah, I have SiriusXM too. The commercial free music is great and all, but man they love playing songs like "Tippin' Point", "Ready Set Roll" and "This Is How We Roll". "Tippin' Point" was the top song on their weekly top 45 countdown (Which I assume is most requested via phone, e-mail, and twitter) last week. How that happened is mind boggling . I don't think I've heard "I Got A Car" once on SiriusXM though. So lately I'm using more and more of the trusty reliable CD player ;).
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