We find out how pissed Birdman REALLY feels about R. Kelly dropping out of their 'Best of Both Worlds' 2 album project. Baby says Kells ain't a "street ni%%a"!
In this clip. Dj J-roc interviews Baby about how Lil Wayne was raised as his son after his father, Rabbit died. Dj One Tyme entertains the crowd with some turtablism.
Dj One Tyme meets the contest winners for the 'Beg For Baby' competition, he also sets up to host the Lil Wayne concert.. Dj J-roc meet and greets Baby from Cash Money Records.
DJs Don't Run Radio...PD's Do
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Category: Music
When talking to people who are launching their first couple of projects, invariably the same misunderstood points come up concerning commercial regular-rotation airplay. Here they are:
DJs PLAY THE RECORDS: This only applies to non-commercial radio, and specialty/mixshow radio. The majority of people in the U.S., however, listen to commercial regular-rotation radio, and on these stations, the DJs have no say at all in what is going to be played (unless, in the case of a smaller station, the DJ is also the PD or Program Director). So, the biggest pitfall to avoid is asking a DJ at a commercial station "Can I give you my CD for possible rotation?". The DJ is not allowed to say "No", and he/she is probably not going to explain that only the Program Director can approve regular rotation. The DJ is just going to say "OK".
GOOD SONGS SPREAD TO OTHER STATIONS: Good songs (or for that matter, good programs) do not mystically spread to other stations. Every single song you hear (or every syndicated program you hear) on commercial regular-rotation radio is on that station because of layers of promotion and marketing. The song you hear was the one that made it... it beat out the other 300 songs that were going for adds that week. What you don't hear are the endless phone calls, faxes, trade ads, personal meetings, consultant recommendations, call-out research, and other things which went into getting the station to add the record. All you heard was the record itself. And station owners make it a requirement that DJs make it sound like they picked the music themselves.
COLLEGE OR SPECIALTY/MIXSHOW WILL EXPAND TO COMMERCIAL: Just because you do well on non-commercial or specialty/mixshow radio, it does not mean anything will happen on commercial regular-rotation radio. Matter of fact, nothing at all will happen at commercial unless a separate, higher-level campaign is put into place to take the record into regular rotation. The pitfall here is that a listener will hear something on college, and then a month later hear it on commercial, and conclude that the college caused the commercial to happen. The listener did not know that both campaigns were in place simultaneously, and the college simply went for adds a month earlier.
YOU HAVE TO BE SIGNED: Untrue. Being singed is only a signal to the stations that the basic marketing practices are going to be done right. If you have the budget, you can duplicate the marketing practices of larger labels, provided you know how. The band Creed set a good example of putting their $5 million marketing dollars into the right place.
REQUEST CALLS WILL HELP: Not really. They won't hurt, but your time is better spent doing other things, like inviting people to your gigs. Stations know which calls are real, and which are bands and their friends. Stations have consultants and seminars which cover only this one topic.
I CAN'T GET AIRPLAY WITHOUT DISTRIBUTION: Depends on the size of radio that you are going after. Smaller commercial regular-rotation stations in smaller markets won't make this too much of a sticking point, especially if you have a powerful radio campaign going, or if you are doing great gigs in their city, or if you have great college or specialty/mixshow results. But the larger stations... which you can't work anyway until you do the smaller ones... won't touch a project that has no distribution.
I CAN'T GET AIRPLAY WITHOUT GIGS: Again, depends on the size of radio that you are going after. Not being able to gig is a serious handicap at any station, but you can overcome it in smaller markets with intense radio promo, press, sales, and non-comm results.
NON-MONITORED STATIONS ARE OF NO USE: Non-monitored stations are of no use only on the Billboard, R&R, and Album Network main charts. But FMQB, CMJ, and all specialty/mixshow charts found in magazines are compiled manually; since you need to start off on these smaller charts first, this works out just fine.
Bryan Farrish is an independent radio airplay promoter. He can be reached at 818-905-8038 or at radio-media.
This is for those who may be confused about why my hair is the way that it is. It's a statement of expression and spiritual discipline for me...
… The first known examples of the hairstyle date back to ancient Egypt, where dreadlocks appeared on Egyptian artifacts. Mummified remains of ancient Egyptians with dreadlocks have even been recovered from archaeological sites.
The Old Testament also recounts the tale of Samson and Delilah in which a man's potency is directly linked to 'the seven locks on his head' and according to Roman accounts, the Celts were described to have 'hair like snakes' Germanic tribes, Greeks and the Vikings are all said to have worn dreadlocks too.
Rastafarianism however is something entirely separate. It was born in the 1930s when Ras Tafari was crowned emperor of Ethiopia. When the emperor was forced into exile during an invasion, guerrilla warriors swore not to cut their hair until the emperor was reinstated. The religion resonated with the ideologies of the day, for example socialism, Marxism, nationalism and black power. It was therefore, seen as a threat to Christianity and came under attack by the authorities that tried to suppress the 'Rasta' movement and imprisoned those who possessed 'ganja'. Rastafarians smoked cannabis because they thought it prompted a clearer state of well - being. Their dreadlocks were thought to be disgusting and frightening, hence the term 'dread' which was later reclaimed by the 'Rasta' community.
The hairstyle was later brought into mainstream culture through the worldwide success of reggae artist Bob Marley. Sporting locks himself, he prompted an international interest in the style, and the anti establishment philosophy of Rastafarian culture. Dreadlocks became increasingly popular and there are many reasons in various cultures for wearing them. They can be an expression of deep religious or spiritual convictions, a manifestation of ethnic pride. They can make a political statement, or simply be a fashion preference….
Why You REALLY Want Radio To Play Your Song...
Current mood: accomplished
Category: Music
I love to promote artists through email blasts and phone work. But first the artist has to take time to do his homework BEFORE dealing with me as a dj or a promoter.
The reasons major labels want airplay has little to do with "finally" hearing they're artists on the air...It's deeper than that. Every time you hear a song, we call that a SPIN.Those spins determine who gets a bigger budget, which affords video airplay and more, but I'll get to that in a later blog. Right now let's explore just how radio and record labels track those "spins".
MediaBase and BDS are the premiere monitors of about 80% of the same stations; therefore you may need to get both in order to get proper coverage.
BDS (BROADCAST DATA SYSTEMS): This system uses computers to listen to the large stations throughout the country. The information is tabulated and sold to subscribing customers... most of which are medium and large labels, management, radio group owners, and others which absolutely have to know where a record is playing, because the decisions that need to be made are going to cost thousands of dollars per market. Subscribers can log on at any time and find out exactly where and how many spins any record is playing, and what time of day it played. Find more information at http://www.bdsonline.com/
MEDIABASE: This system is similar in concept to BDS, but instead of using computers to listen, it uses people. Also, since a human is actually doing the listening, that person can make notes of special things, like if the music was heard in a advertisement, or if the artist was talked about by DJs, or other things that a computer would miss.
SOUNDSCAN: This system should not be confused with BDS or MediaBase. Soundscan is not for radio... it is for retail sales. It is the system that is connected to the barcode scanners at retail stores; it tabulates the sales data, and sells it to subscribers at a lofty price.
A note about who owns whom: Soundscan and Billboard and BDS are all owned by the same company. MediaBase, on the other hand, is owned by Clear Channel, the largest owner of radio stations (1200) in the world.
For more info: Do a google for the terms listed above...Ya'Dunn Know...
Yeas, I stay busy. But it's because I hate being bored. I feel that if I slow down I'll die...morbid, but who wants to know the truth to that!?
If you're reading this, you're bored. So why not just message me?
If I haven't answered before...then maybe your subject line sucked! (or I deleted it in a drunken state...don't laugh, it goes down!)
No I'm NOT entertaining ALL the females that you see commenting. I love you all in a special way...like Jesus. But I'm way to expensive, and taken, to be dealing with the stalker like chaos...
If you do music, I would love to hear your single, but chances are I'm checking my account on my phone (yeah it goes down...) so I'm probably not giving feedback, less it's on some downtime and I'm curled up with a phat....u get the idea.
If you wanna socialize, dats coo...just send me more than a sentence. That's not gangsta...If you don't have that much to say just send me your im addy and work yourself up to the moment...
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