Word: airplay
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...trend doesn’t stop with pre-packaged pop singers. After fading away for a few years, the precocious brat rockers of Blink-182 have also returned to heavy airplay on radio and MTV. Despite several years of legal squabbling and failed solo efforts, the Backstreet Boys—no joke—are reportedly heading to the studio to record another album. The album may flop worse than Ruben Studdard attempting a swan dive, but if it doesn’t, you read about it here first. More surprising and significant is the return of a number...
...huge line of people waiting to enter the Avalon Ballroom for the first show of Gorillaz’ inaugural tour of America reflected the buzz surrounding this gig by one of the most enigmatic bands to get serious airplay for the past year or two. Stretching most of the way down Lansdowne Street, new arrivals joined the line outside the entrance to Bill’s Bar, a good 50 yards or more from Avalon. As the line shuffled its way towards the door, the thumping sound of the opening set by DJ and founding Gorilla...
...letting up the tension a bit in favor of a sly, upbeat smile, and even sampling a swinging Vaudeville melody for “Disseminated.” And on their third and final album, El Oso (1998), radio-friendly “Circles” got lots of airplay and was even used as background for a Cartoon Network commercial, a tribute to its child-safe fuzziness. Though the rest of the album turned to a heavier electronic sound, Soul Coughing still showed us they could manage driving rhythms without danger, melancholy without losing luxury...
...Clark walked into, and deftly out of, his own scandal, when in 1959 the House Oversight Committee investigated payola, the record industry's system of bribing disc jockeys and program managers in return for airplay. It ended the career of Alan Freed, the man credited with applying the black sexual term rock-and-roll to jump music. (By the way, that's a lie; the phrase goes back much earlier than Freed. In the 1941 film "Swing for Your Supper" young Dorothy Dandridge sings of her musical education: "They made me rock 'n roll ... brought me up on good...
Country--like pop music in general--has been regressing to childhood in recent years. Teen acts like Billy Gilman and Jessica Andrews are winning airplay on radio and face time on TV, but much of the music that's being made would make Hank Williams cry even harder into his beer. Recent country-music sales have been flat. In the first quarter of 2001, according to SoundScan, country sold 14, 871 ,000 CDs, albums and tapes, a 106,000 drop from the same quarter last year. And country seems slowly to be losing listeners to rap and rock, with...