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Brian W.
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Didn't hear about this till today. Wondered what was taking them so long to post the Hot 100 this week. If they had put this in place a few months ago, "Gangnam Style" would have been #1 on the Hot 100. Not sure how I feel about this...
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1549388/baauers-harle m-shake-debuts-atop-revamped-hot-100
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How are they even going to keep track of the views week to week? Didn't the major music companies remove millions and millions of views on videos last year because they were rigged? I also have a coworker who is paid by youtube to watch videos.... and lastly the average view time on one of my videos is just over a minute (which means some people watch some in their entirety and some skip them after 5 seconds) but a view is a view.... seems like a bad idea to me.
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Brian W.
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I hear you, buddy, but you gotta admit, it's more accurate
than "audience impressions," which has always been a bunch
of extremely imprecise B.S., in my opinion.
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The Hot 100 compilation and interpretation must evolve with the times. It can't be based on 45 singles shipped or sold. Stations no longer issue playlists you can pick up at the record store. The way in which entertainment is delivered and consumed by the audience has changed. How we gauge viewership, listenership, etc. must also change.
As a radio broadcaster we face the reality that our competition is no longer limited to other stations. We have the Internet, personal devices like iPod, etc. to contend with. As I recently pointed out, in the 60's we had car radios. Then came integrated 8-track players, cassette players, CD changers and now personal devices interface connectors. These all take away from radio broadcasters. How relevant and to whom the Hot 100 is today is an interesting debate. Gathering data and interpreting data are two related but distinct tasks.
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Smokin' TomGary wrote:
As a radio broadcaster we face the reality that our
competition is no longer limited to other stations. We
have the Internet, personal devices like iPod, etc. to
contend with. As I recently pointed out, in the 60's we
had car radios. Then came integrated 8-track players,
cassette players, CD changers and now personal devices
interface connectors. These all take away from radio
broadcasters. How relevant and to whom the Hot 100 is
today is an interesting debate. Gathering data and
interpreting data are two related but distinct tasks.
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Agree 100%. Unfortunately there are those who seem to
think that if radio returns to the ways of the past (live
dj's, etc.) listeners will come back in droves, ditching
all their so-called "new media". Ain't gonna happen.
As far as the relevance of the Hot 100, I'm not sure it's
had any for at least the past 20 years. Indeed, the
decline began in the 70s with the rise of album-rock
radio, with legitimate hit songs that were never released
as a single, thus being ineligible for inclusion. These
days with listening so fragmented, there is no such thing
as an across-the-board hit...a song can be huge in one
genre (urban, alt-rock, CHR-pop), yet a large percentage
of listeners may have never even heard of it.
Brian W. wrote:
I hear you, buddy, but you gotta admit,
it's more accurate
than "audience impressions," which has always been a
bunch
of extremely imprecise B.S., in my opinion.
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Yeah, a spin is a spin, yet a play in overnights or
Sunday evening reaches a fraction of the ears that a spin
in drive-time would. Has Mediabase started weighting
spins by daypart? Even that would be a pretty inexact
science.
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