People ask all the time, “If you guys are searching so hard for stuff, if the A&R community is working so hard to find good stuff, why is there so much crap on the radio?”
I think a lot of it right now is that radio tends to be very hit-driven, meaning that if you have a hit song you can get on the radio. On the other hand, no one might know who you are in a year. That’s the down-side of hit-driven radio. I think that maybe ten years ago it was more about touring bands, whereas now if you have a hit song you can get on the radio. I think that music becomes very disposable in that type of era. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, I think we’re in that type of era right now. I think things are going to swing back and radio will hopefully be less hit-oriented than it is now, where they’ll maybe play a second and a third track by a band that they might not have earlier. I think you’re going to start seeing more of that rather than hearing a hit song by a band, a one-hit wonder, and then never hearing them again.
