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Originally posted by alexanderao
Radio isn't that simple. Lots of people discover new music through radio stations, and thus radio directly causes people to buy and stream music. Additionally, callout scores mean that the general public does have a say in what is played on the radio, if we're going to go to that argument. Furthermore, radio isn't a dying format like sales, as the number of top 40 stations has remained steady over the last few years. Why decrease the influence of a component on the chart when it hasn't decreased in real life?
He's talking about billboard.biz.
It lets you see full version of charts you can only see a preview of on billboard.com. However, the Hot 100 is fully visible on both websites.
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I don't agree that radio listens to the fans at all formats, especially at Country. There are plenty of songs that hit #1 or the Top 3 on that airplay chart with low callout scores and little if any sales and/or streaming.
Then you have others like "Girl Crush" which took forever to catch on, and then the format dropped the song faster than I've seen it do to a track in years. All this time GC was in the Top 2 at streaming and digital, and very high on callout scores.
This lack of congruence between what Country radio plays and what the fans stream, download, request, and score highly on callout surveys has been a topic of many publications.
Combine that with its increasingly rapid turnover rate at the top even when the songs are still popular with fans, and you see why the genre has lost market share at radio two consecutive Arbitron periods.
If you're not going to play what your listeners want but instead take directions on what to play from Nashville labels, you're digging the grave for your format.