Fuse Adds for the Week of 04/14/08
Hit List and Work It! Rotation Adds:
Death Cab For Cutie "I Will Possess Your Heart" (Atlantic)
Nelly f/ Fergie "Party People" (Derrty/Universal)
Seether "Rise Above This" (Wind-Up)
Usher "Love In This Club" (LaFace)
FRA:
Rock: 2
Rap: 2
Pop/Others: 0
FRA = Fuse Rotation Adds
The State of Fuse: 1st Quarter 2008 Review
Well, it is the end of the 1st quarter of 2008, and let's see how Fuse did. In about a month or so from now, it will be 5 years as Fuse, previously known as MMUSA.
Music rotation spins and adds: Fuse has gotten more rap **** added to the regular playlist that wasn't there even one year ago. (ex. Flo Rida, Ray J., Missy, Fat Joe, Sean Kingston, Rick Ross/T-Pain; though Chris Brown, Lupe Fiasco, and Snoop Dogg were tolerable compared to the other rap crap Fuse added. At least Soulja Boy wasn't disrupting Fuse except on the
Hip-Hop Countdown.)
Also, Rock videos were being late being added or some weren't added at all.
Story of The Year's new song, Airbourne, Against Me!, Shiny Toy Guns, and The Bravery
all would've been added into the regular rotation hands down 1 or 2 years ago, but not now. But in March, Fuse tried to save their crediblity by adding more rock.
Oven Fresh no longer airs due to Fuse rescheduling earlier this year, and this channel is going down the drain rather fast now. They have lost their focus as a music channel... well not completely yet, but if Fuse doesn't shape up and get back to rock spins to at least a 65-35 ratio to rock, they are in huge trouble. Also, I was shocked to see Fuse
not add Leona Lewis to the main playlist. As far as rock goes, they added Apocalyptica, Ashes Divide, Sixx:AM, and Radiohead, of which were unexpected adds to the main rotaion, along with favorites like Coheed and Cambria, Rise Against, and more of the superpowers of Alternative rock (ex. LP, and A7X).
Fuse Rotation Spins (Jan-Mar. 2008):
Rock: 41.1%
Rap/Hip-Hop/R&B: 40.8%
Pop/Others: 18.1%
Programming front: There are rumors on the Fuse comment boards that Steven Smith is fired, of which I hope are false. If Smith is indeed fired from Fuse, then rock's domination on Fuse will end and SURS is gone also, plus
The Sauce will have an even worse rap/pop-bias and Fuse will have lost any credibility and respect they ever had. Also, Fuse, cut it out with the airings of movies (although some movies are good, that wasn't Fuse's 1st or 2nd intent.)
Rad Girls, PODO, and
DSLG, and replace them with repeats of
SURS, classic Uranium, and even
Daily Download classics. Nice to see Fuse finally play
Video Yearbook, which is a change from the regular rotation videos, such as rarely seen videos to the overplayed of the 80s to the early 00s.
BTW, Steven's possible departure from Fuse would be on the exact same magnitude as Mistress Juliya's and Marianela's terminations from Fuse, and compared to Jim Shearer and Abby Gennett getting booted from MTV2, Quddus and Hilarie ousted off of MTV, and Gideon Yago, Iann Robinson, and SuChin Pak being kicked off of MTV News (her firing and too much rap are why I'm boycotting MTV 100% and MTV2 almost completely, and don't watch MTV2 outside
SRTD, Rob and Big, or
High School Stories.)
Fuse.tv: New comment boards are coming soon.
Grade:
Music: C- (All four rock adds one week in March is the only reason why a C- is awarded.)
Programming: C (Hit and miss overall, but getting better with music-related shows, but
Rad Girls, PODO, and
DSLG are still on too much. Movies on too much, although some are bad and some are good. VH1 occasionally plays movies... at least, they are music-related movies unlike Fuse, which wants to run movies such as
BASEketball.
Overall: D+ and getting worse.
My own Viewpoints:
BTW, even though I don't have Fuse, it is getting horrible and ******-- rather fast, and VH1 is the only music video channel I watch on a regular basis.
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