This is forever. You can’t manufacture virality. Remember “Gangnam Style”? People weren’t even interested in the follow-up video. Quick, name it! (It’s entitled “Gentleman,” and if you know that you’re entitled to automatic qualification for the next hobby horse nationals. Meanwhile, “Gentleman” does have 1.6 billion views on YouTube, but that does not mean its […]

RE: COWBOY CARTER SNUBBED You mentioned two venues on my home turf. To answer your question about Merriweather Post Pavilion – it’s probably the most beloved large venue in the Baltimore / DC area. People DO like going there. It’s a bit of a schlep from Baltimore, even more so from DC, but parking is easy, traffic […]

But Shaboozey got nominated for a CMA. Can the public accept that “Cowboy Carter” and its single “Texas  Hold ‘Em” were not country hits? NO! So I’m reading the concert grosses in “Pollstar.” What’s interesting is not the first page, what sells out, but what does not. Like Thirty Seconds to Mars. Which only had […]

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