Comments on: The Internet Is One Giant Radio http://www.idiotbanter.com/2007/09/03/the-internet-is-one-giant-radio/ Nonsense about Front-End Web Development, Music Business and Snowboarding by Matt McCausland Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:33:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: kat http://www.idiotbanter.com/2007/09/03/the-internet-is-one-giant-radio/comment-page-1/#comment-41 kat Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:58:16 +0000 http://www.idiotbanter.com/blog/2007/09/03/the-internet-is-one-giant-radio/#comment-41 "Now you’ll be able to see who’s hot on corporate top 40 radio and who people are actually listening to on their ipods." That's VERY cool. It's about time that actual listening trends dictated top 40 lists and not some boardroom of suits catering to label priorities. Even the MM countdown (public knowledge) is decided by programmers. I like this a lot. I also heard earlier that when MTV does "The Leak", they pull together stats and tell the labels which tracks were most streamed - and then gently suggest to the label that THOSE tracks be used as the next single for the artist since fans obviously like them. Give the people what they wanna hear! :D “Now you’ll be able to see who’s hot on corporate top 40 radio and who people are actually listening to on their ipods.”

That’s VERY cool. It’s about time that actual listening trends dictated top 40 lists and not some boardroom of suits catering to label priorities. Even the MM countdown (public knowledge) is decided by programmers. I like this a lot.

I also heard earlier that when MTV does “The Leak”, they pull together stats and tell the labels which tracks were most streamed – and then gently suggest to the label that THOSE tracks be used as the next single for the artist since fans obviously like them. Give the people what they wanna hear! :D

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