Rock disappears from airwaves & charts
News: 12th January 2011 by Louise Dodgson under Media, Selling & Distributing Your Music
It has become gradually more obvious over the past couple of years that guitar bands have been replaced by X Factor and other pop acts in the charts. So, unsurprisingly the new acts are finding it particularly tricky to breakthrough to the mainstream. Radio plays a huge part in what music is propelled into the charts, so is the problem that the major UK stations are not giving enough airtime to guitar bands?
NME reader's questions were recently posed to Radio 1's Head of Music, George Ergatoudis. Take a look at the link below to see what the station's opinion on this matter is...
Related Links
http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=10&p=9622&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jan/10/rock-n-roll-read-last-rites
http://www.beehivecity.com/radio/sorry-fearne-djs-must-not-choose-music-radio-1-boss-rules43556/
Tags
music sales, official charts, radio 1, george ergatoudis, rock music, emerging bands
