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Reach

Don’t confuse consumption with reach. In other words, today’s metrics, which are really yesterday’s metrics, don’t give an accurate picture of what is happening in the landscape, they don’t indicate how big an act is, rather how many times one person listened to one song. Think about that. In the pre-internet days of scarcity it […]

Recently Deceased-SiriusXM This Week

Tune in Saturday July 6th to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz

The King Must Die

1 “And sooner or later Everybody’s kingdom must end” Elton John had already cut an album that wasn’t even released in the U.S. Despite the Troubadour hoopla, most people first became aware of Elton on the radio, with “Your Song,” another ballad by a pop star. Only it wasn’t. Not only was “Your Song” a […]

Mailbag

Subject: Re: Chris Stapleton At The Hollywood Bowl Hi Bob, Light moves faster than sound- the images are often timed to give a better experience to people farther back who make the most use of the screens. The production will calculate the best delay to cater to the largest % of the crowd, this will […]