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Kizzume
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 Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 7:11 pm Post subject: Clearchannel hates old people |
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http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,306164,00.html
| Quote: | Bruce Springsteen should be very happy. He has the No. 1 album, a possible Grammy for Best Album of the Year for "Magic," an album full of singles and a sold-out concert tour.
Alas, there?s a hitch: Radio will not play "Magic." In fact, sources tell me that Clear Channel has sent an edict to its classic rock stations not to play tracks from "Magic." But it?s OK to play old Springsteen tracks such as "Dancing in the Dark," "Born to Run" and "Born in the USA."
Just no new songs by Springsteen, even though it?s likely many radio listeners already own the album and would like to hear it mixed in with the junk offered on radio.
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"Magic," by the way, has sold more than 500,000 copies since its release on Oct. 2 and likely will hit the million mark. That?s not a small achievement these days, and one that should be embraced by Clear Channel.
But what a situation: The No. 1 album is not being played on any radio stations, according to Radio & Records, which monitors such things. Nothing. The rock songs aren?t on rock radio, and the two standout "mellow" tracks ? "Magic" and "Devil?s Arcade" ? aren?t even on "lite" stations.
The singles-kinda hits, "Radio Nowhere" and "Living in the Future" ? which would have been hits no questions asked in the '70s, '80s and maybe even the '90s, also are absent from Top 40.
What to do? Columbia Records is said to be readying a remixed version of "The Girls in their Summer Clothes," a poppy Beach Boys-type track that has such a catchy hook fans were singing along to it at live shows before they had the album. Bruce insiders are hopeful that with a push from Sony, "Girls" will triumph.
I?m not so sure.
Clear Channel seems to have sent a clear message to other radio outlets that at age 58, Springsteen simply is too old to be played on rock stations. This completely absurd notion is one of many ways Clear Channel has done more to destroy the music business than downloading over the last 10 years. It?s certainly what?s helped create satellite radio, where Springsteen is a staple and even has his own channel on Sirius.
It?s not just Springsteen. There is no sign at major radio stations of new albums by John Fogerty or Annie Lennox, either. The same stations that should be playing Santana?s new singles with Chad Kroeger or Tina Turner are avoiding them, too.
Like Springsteen, these "older" artists have been relegated to something called Triple A format stations ? i.e. either college radio or small artsy stations such as WFUV in the Bronx, N.Y., which are immune from the Clear Channel virus of pre-programming and where the number of plays per song is a fraction of what it is on commercial radio. |
Just another example of why the music industry NEEDS to take that nose dive it's been trying really hard to take. If it's not the record labels, it's the broadcasters.
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jq
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Too much power in too few hands man. Thats what it goes back to. It goes back to the fact that when I want to buy a used videogame, I have one option: gamestop. Electronics Boutique no longer exists. (It is owned by the people at gamestop.) All of a sudden a lot of prices have raised at my local gamestop. I wonder why.
And then there are lingerie stores. When I want to get kinky with my girlfriend, there is one option. "Lovers." No competition. And no longer any "lovers package" stores. (They are now "lovers," and Lovers is the only lingerie store anywhere close to my home.)
Then there are cell phones. ATT and Cingular, MERGED. Nextel and Sprint, MERGED.
Then there is beer. Coors and Miller are now combining operations and working together? YIKES!
Too much power in too little hands. We need local radio stations that aren't owned by anybody. That's what we need.
And we need more independent video game and lingerie stores, too.
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Kizzume
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Sometimes I wonder if it will ever be:
The Phone Company
The Media Company
The Clothing/Hardware/Game/Grocery/Music store
Unregulated and price gouged while the workers make minimum wage.
Okay--that's just going to flat-out extremes, but it's interesting to look at. It would make an interesting movie or book---oh wait, I think I know someone who's doing something like that. 
? Last Edit: Nov 9, 2007, 1:23am by Kizzume ?
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elley
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Clear Channel is evil. But thanks for letting me know that Springsteen has a new album. I'll have to check it out.
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Kizzume
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I haven't heard a single track from that album yet. Let me know how it is.
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