So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists.
Most people didn't have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on certain songs and possibly be the impetus behind what eventually got on AM radio: the single or whatever.
It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.
I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.
This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.
I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market.
I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.
I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.
We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.
Distributing the music is so easy it's moot. So now the delicate art of calling attention to your music means everything. Marketing is distribution.
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