Is radio giving artists the exposure they need 18 Articles

by Matt Mckay

If video killed the radio star, radio retaliated and killed just about everything else, including new, independent artists. Music as art, music as expression, musical styles that deviate from the norm, have all been ignore...read more

by Tim Gray

Today's mainstream radio is about as appealing as beef liver. It couldn't offer less music of sincere artistic value, or bore the discriminating listener to a greater degree. It's more homogenized than dairy milk. I h...read more

by Griz

Is radio giving artists the exposure they need? The answer depends on who you are. If you are a music industry fat cat executive, the answer, without a doubt is yes. If you are an artist who is struggling to make a ca...read more

4 of 18

by Steve Hamilton

With the advancement of computer technology and its' application in the field of promotion comes its' inevitable pitfalls. These have been evident for quite some time but are only recently being recognised as rising as rap...read more

by David Samuel

Is radio giving artist the exposure they need? Well that all depends on what artist we are talking about. Radio stations have been taken over by men who rule "Wall Street." There was a time when radio stations were run ...read more

by Vince Capece

cynical bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic As I age, cynical is the word that increasingly describes my view of the world. I always had slightly odd tastes. The girls I liked in high schoo...read more

by Lesley Aeschliman

The title of this article doesn't really make it clear exactly what kind of radio is being looked at. If the intent of the question is to look at terrestrial radio, then the answer is that radio is primarily only giving ex...read more

by Sherrill Fulghum

That depends on the artist. There are some radio stations who have a playlist rotation of only a couple of hours; if you add in ad spots, chit chat and the like this doesn't leave much time for the music. In th early d...read more

by Victoria Jeffrey

Take a good look at the commercial radio landscape. The constant mergers of media companies contributed to the buy out of nearly all of the radio stations. This control of radio in the hands of only a few corporations has ...read more

by Lee Rugless

Radio is definitely not providing all artists the necessary exposure to fully promote their gifts/talents/skills. In this age of reality television, movies, etc, most radio stations are decades behind the game. There are...read more

by Misty Cahal

When I think of music, I don't necessarily thinking of going to my good old AM/FM stations any more; I tend to think of internet radio these days. More than likely, I am not the only person on the planet that has turne...read more

by Jamal Bruton

HOW BLACK RADIO IS KILLING ITS ARTISTS What if Prince released his first album in 2008 instead of 1978? Chances are, the man known in many circles as a genius may never have had the opportunity to be heard by the ma...read more

by Quest Peh

Radio is one of the major channels that a singer would have to go through no doubt.We are talking about whether do they give exposure not, not Whether we pay them not.There is a few situations. You are a TV face, or appear...read more

by Michael Stone

Independent Music_Hear what you've been missing I'm an audio production guy. I've been in radio for over 35 years and have been doing morning shows in commercial radio for the better part of that career. I'm also a m...read more

by Kristin Boles

Whenever my mp3 player has a loss of battery power, I usually turn to the radio. I normally would choose almost any other possibility over radio, but I get curious as to what various stations play nowadays. Of course, it...read more

by Makoto Iwaoka

You Say You Wanna Revolution? Perhaps it is rather presumptuous, but I believe one of the greatest things the world has ever experienced was Napster. In the late 90's, this program was part of a revolution in how people...read more

by Doug Harding

How many bands are trying to make it these days? Countless. How many of them are actually good? Some. The radio can't expose all of them. MTV rarely plays music videos. And TRL doesn't even play the whole video. Oh,...read more

by Donnie Wilson

It would be untrue to say that radio is giving artists the exposure they need. Typically a radio station will play a routine and very mundane list of songs by a small selection of artists. Most listener's are frustrated by...read more