That’s a passionate response, but I doubt that RCA surveyed every PD.  As I recall, it was the opinion of PDs that caused RCA to change Lee Dewyze’s first single from Live It Up to Sweet Serendipity.  I’m not saying that history will repeat itself, just that there are no guarantees, even when RCA gets the  opinion of those in radio.  

I think people need to calm down and be patient. The normal doom and gloom naysayers do what they normally do. Even if these Idols get no radio play so what. Their careers no matter how low key or high profile will carry on.  

I think it’s too early to be overly optimistic and too early to be pessimistic.  Who knows what will happen.  It’s all up to the label and the program directors.  

I am not ready to throw in the towel on radio play for Adam.  He is just too wonderfully talented, smart and charismatic not to make his dreams a reality.  In addition he has a powerful label and many people respected in the industry on his side.  If radio didn’t think he was a draw to their listeners, it would make no sense for them to book him for concerts.  A lot of people who are trying to get radio play would love to be included in these gigs, and I refuse to think they have no meaning.

Clay had a huge fanbase, but he wasn’t going to get airplay on pop anymore than Taylor Hicks’ was.  Both Clay and Taylor are great examples that radio pds have never been fooled by big AI fanbases, and that they know that many of these fans are fans of the tv star, and not the contestants, and that the fans do not normally listen to pop stations, so why should they program the music of someone like Clay?   

 I’ve always found it funny that people expected the fanbases to sway the opinion of program directors, who want to appeal to people who will listen to their stations all of the time, and not just when their AI fave is on.  The PDs know that these people won’t change their musical tastes, and won’t turn into regular listeners of the station.

And we’ll just have to disagree, but to my ears what Clay, Bo, and the others that you mentioned, released were not pop songs.  

True, there are no guarantees in radio, it’s a gamble and all the labels and the stations are fully aware of how it works. But hopefully if a label books enough radio station events for an artist, at least some of those stations will get on board provided they don’t hate the song. To use Adam as an example, a couple of the stations he is doing radio concerts for have jumped on NCOE early. And a couple of the stations he visited in San Francisco are early adopters as well, and this particular market did not really get on board with Adam until late in the game during the FYE era.

So it’s not hopeless or anything, but sometimes it requires more patience than fans seem to have to build up a song’s presence on radio.

True, there are no guarantees in radio, it’s a gamble and all the labels and the stations are fully aware of how it works. But hopefully if a label books enough radio station events for an artist, at least some of those stations will get on board provided they don’t hate the song. To use Adam as an example, a couple of the stations he is doing radio concerts for have jumped on NCOE early. And a couple of the stations he visited in San Francisco are early adopters as well, and this particular market did not really get on board with Adam until late in the game during the FYE era.

So it’s not hopeless or anything, but sometimes it requires more patience than fans seem to have to build up a song’s presence on radio.

I’m voting for and requesting Adam’s new single on my local radio station every day (I’m writing in NCOE, even though BTIKM is at #10) and no amount of people running around saying it won’t change anything will stop me.

NCOE is very catchy, has gotten some very nice reviews and Adam has a pretty good track record with Top 40 and HAC radio (WWFM and IIHY to a lesser extent.)

The fact that he is out there giving radio concerts means he’s courting them and I’m not going to let down the back end of his efforts by sitting on my hands. It may not get play if we vote but it definitely won’t get play if we don’t.

Scr*w the other factors. We can’t control the other factors.

I’m sure Stefanos song will slide down, but it got higher than I thought it would and it his idol bump sure lasted longer than a few other idol bumps. He may do well with it. :)

At first I didn’t like Stefano’s song but after a few listens I think it can do very well. It kind of fits with everything that’s out there he just needs radio to jump on board.

Throw in the towel? The song has been out at radio stations for less than two weeks! We are still being patient and trying to be optimistic with songs that have been out for two months with lower AIs than NCOE has. We should give this song at least that much time. 
NCOE has some early adds, a healthy bullet and AI. It is doing well in Canada. These are things to be optimistic about.

I agree! It’s never a guarantee, lol! They need people for their concerts and usually people they think their listeners want to see perform but sometimes they play their songs, sometimes they don’t. Chris Rene already have 10 radio concerts scheduled for May -July, luckily all those stations are playing him.

I don’t think there have been a lot of Idols releasing slam dunk radio singles lately, so I don’t think its all radio’s fault. Most of the songs have been good songs/so-so singles IMO.

This is true, and it’s always been the case.  The names that were thrown out yesterday, Diana, Bo, Clay and others, just show that the AI label has never been a guarantee that someone would get airplay.  Despite how everyone’s favorite idol alum is the greatest singer ever, the alums still have to have good songs and the support of their labels and management.  

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