Singles Collection

[Cyberkrel]

Not so much different as more polite - our guys are called "pluggers" and
are a good deal more shadowy than your lot in the USA - but I guess it is
the same - bearing in mind that a radio station can only play so much in the
daytime if it is strangled by a playlist policy as our national radio
stations are right now.
For example, there are about - let's say - 500 possible trance music tracks
to which a radio station might have access that have been hits or club hits
in the past few years. So, what do we get on national radio now - that
"Flash Dance " single played about once a day every day for around the past
year or so - or as good as. With all the similar bands in the world today,
Radio 1 only ever plays Green Day regularly in the daytime - noone else even
comes close. Hey ho!!
Back in the days of BOC singles, I guess the pluggers could say "close but
no cigar".
Andy G
----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen Swann <swann at PLUTONIA.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: Singles Collection


> On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 01:29:05AM +0100, Cyberkrel wrote:
> > "Burning for you" did come out as a single and at the time, CBS reps
were
> > working it like crazy - they really wanted that to chart - they gave
some
>  [...]
> > They then tried the same with "Shooting Shark" later on - reps worked
it,
> > etc etc - but the same thing happened - radio refused to play it -
>  [...]
> > You can't blame the label - they did try!!- not that you are, but you
get my
> > drift.
>
> Weird, radio must work completely differently in the UK
> than in the US:
> http://archive.salon.com/ent/feature/2001/03/14/payola/index.html
>
> Steve