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Terrestrial radio is dying off (irrelevance being the primary reason). People are bringing their 'own' music with them in the car (ipod into the dashboard) or paying for satellite radio (but outside of a car or business, who has the home setup to listen to pay radio, don't they watch pay tv at that point or tune in a webstream?).
There is a significant portion of the population who can't get no satisfaction from the ex-disney pop dance singer computer voice things that dominate "mainstream" charts. And I'm not just talking about a 3 year span. It's a 20 year span.
I live in one of top 5 cities (size) in the country you have 2 choices for 'rock' and neither of them play much 'new' stuff (20 year old songs hardly put you on the leading edge, no matter how "extreme" the bumper spots areggghhhhhh!!).
And adult contemporary? Is that code for 'you can play this in a corporate office'? Again songs there date back to the 80s and 90s. Hardly a 'new music' station.
So there is a lot of effort being made to break any band (old established act like U2 who are striving to remain relevant or latest signing from some indie fest).
We are in an age of plenty but it is also a 'tower of babel' situation where no two people in the society speak the same language anymore.new music