Comments on: To Big 4 record labels – ‘Bring back the single!’

By: Joe_Sixpack

Joe_Sixpack — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:58:42 +0000

I gotta agree hen I was a kid I use to love music and I never thought I’d see the day that I stop listening to music altogether cause it’s so crap and not only that but new artist want to emulate the crappy sound, becuse they think that if they sound like current garbage sound that’s out they’ll sell records gain a fanbase, but most of what I’m saying is aimed at rap music music because it’s a dead genre everything else is just dying.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:59:27 +0000

Stop putting out crap content that isnât worth the price they want to price-fix it at. WHY is this at no. 2? This is the NUMBER ONE REASON people quit buying music in the first place!

By: Mike Ox-Small

Mike Ox-Small — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:50:24 +0000

There’s a station in my area that gives local artists a show of their own, one hour a week, on Sunday nights. The station is not owned by Cheap Channel…uh oh, it’s the Mays Brothers calling, they want to buy the station. No? Hostile takeover…say it isn’t so! Noo…..

P.S. IMHO The death of the 7′ single started the death of the music industry as we know it!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:41:36 +0000

A demonstration of just how bad this setup with ClearChannel is came when local authorities needed to get the word out about evacuation because of a methane release to the local population. The first thought was call the radio station for a public announcement.

Only….there was no DJ. They got an answering machine instead. There was no one locally at the radio station to talk to.

Now in the broadcasting license agreement to obtain the license is a clause that states public announcements will be done and done on a monthly basis. This is given lip service to by ClearChannel and they make an attempt to do so by doing a national announcement collective.

I hate ClearChannel because it is the usual. It’s replay city with the same tunes coming up hour after hour in replay. You don’t hear anything by local artists, you don’t hear what is new that might interest you.

What ever happened to Eliot Spencer”s agreement with the major labels and the radio stations over payolla? You know, the part where local artists would have air play time? I’ve yet to hear of anything in meeting that requirement beyond the statement at the time that they would. Follow through never happened.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:37:04 +0000

Yup.

Cheers!

By: Jazz

Jazz — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:29:26 +0000

Newtley is you Jon. Right?