I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.
And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.
It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.
Our records are commodities. We're looking to make a sale. The radio stations are looking to get the advertising dollars. The end.
No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records.
I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.
I think when you put a new record out, everyone has a song or two that they feel people will be moved by so much that radio will be forced to play it.
It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.
Nobody sells records any more, and the only way you can actually do anything is to go out and play live.