Call me delusional, but it seems quite clear to me that the reason for the lack of spins is something entirely "political". Radio stations do not spin your first single like there's no tomorrow and then completely boycott your second single.
I drive 8 hours a day (for work), and switch constantly between 4 different pop stations (Bay Area, CA), and NONE of them play Judas, at all. I've yet to hear it once after the day it first leaked. It's worth noting that all of these stations played BTW every for around 5 days after it's release. Add to these circumatances that all of the above radio's are playing her previous songs. And to make matters worse, a few of the station's dj's talk about news regarding Judas (positively), like the video premier or Ellen performace, as the song plays low in the background, and then immeidiately they play either an old GaGa song or a song from someone else, as if they're incapable of playing JUDAS.
I can't describe how frustating it is that no one else seems to be picking up on this. Some may argue it's only my area, but JUDAS radio updates say otherwise.
There is a vast difference between not playing a song because it's "weak", and entirely boycotting a song by an A-list artist. What's ocurring is a boycott.
Record breaking spins for BTW
+ a JUDAS boycott
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= Interscope didn't live up to it's end of the whatever deal they made.
Call me delusional, but it seems quite clear to me that the reason for the lack of spins is something entirely "political". Radio stations do not spin your first single like there's no tomorrow and then completely boycott your second single.
I drive 8 hours a day (for work), and switch constantly between 4 different pop stations (Bay Area, CA), and NONE of them play Judas, at all. I've yet to hear it once after the day it first leaked. It's worth noting that all of these stations played BTW every for around 5 days after it's release. Add to these circumatances that all of the above radio's are playing her previous songs. And to make matters worse, a few of the station's dj's talk about news regarding Judas (positively), like the video premier or Ellen performace, as the song plays low in the background, and then immeidiately they play either an old GaGa song or a song from someone else, as if they're incapable of playing JUDAS.
I can't describe how frustating it is that no one else seems to be picking up on this. Some may argue it's only my area, but JUDAS radio updates say otherwise.
There is a vast difference between not playing a song because it's "weak", and entirely boycotting a song by an A-list artist. What's ocurring is a boycott.
Record breaking spins for BTW
+ a JUDAS boycott
__________________
= Interscope didn't live up to it's end of the whatever deal they made.
I know you're joking, but it's happened before. Radio's have boycotted both Briteney Spears and Madonna at various points in their career for behind the scene's buisness issues.
Like i said, Record breaking spins for first single + a 2nd single those same stations refuse to play = boycott.
Hopefully this will give some credibilty to what otherwise may sound like massive stan confusion/delusion/destruction
If you read my post you'll notice that the situation described here in the Huffington Post regarding Bruce Springsteen is the exact same as i described in my post regarding Judas, and both site Clear Channel. Not a conicidence.
Quote:
Bruce Springsteen should be very happy. He has the No. 1 album, a possible Grammy for Best Album of the Year, for "Magic," an album full of singles, and a sold-out concert tour.
Alas, there's a hitch: Radio will not play "Magic." In fact, sources tell me that Clear Channel has sent an edict to its classic rock stations not to play tracks from "Magic." But it's OK to play old Springsteen tracks such as "Dancing in the Dark," "Born to Run" and "Born in the USA."
Just no new songs by Springsteen, even though it's likely many radio listeners already own the album and would like to hear it mixed in with the junk offered on radio.
Read more here, second item down