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Modern-Rock Radio Continues Its Slide Into Irrelevance, Three Days Grace Advocacy

kimE3981 — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:55:36 EDT

here's some nostalgia for you: [bitter_defeat.blogspot.com]

kimE3981

Modern-Rock Radio Continues Its Slide Into Irrelevance, Three Days Grace Advocacy

Chris Molanphy — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:28:16 EDT

@SomeSound-MostlyFury: I actually think this comment nails it.

I'll give the standard answer I see Billboard give whenever questions like "Why does [x] chart exist?" come up: As long as there are radio stations playing the format, and as long as the industry's interested in tracking it (viz. its impact on album sales, etc.), the chart will continue to exist. They've eliminated charts before, usually when the radio format gets too small. On modern rock, we're getting there, but not there yet.

Chris Molanphy

Modern-Rock Radio Continues Its Slide Into Irrelevance, Three Days Grace Advocacy

SomeSound-MostlyFury — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:41:08 EDT

No Three Doors Down, Hinder, Nickelback, Puddle of Mudd, Alter Bridge, etc etc? I call this a HUGE win for the alt-rock charts. Foo Fighters single is a great one (although the album is blah), Paramore isn't incredibly sucky, Jimmy Eat World is a solid and noticeably not-annoying band, Supermassive Black Hole is a fucking awesome song, White Stripes are the White Stripes....while radio certainly is stagnant in turns of turnover....frankly there isn't much good alt-rock coming out, so what else are you supposed to play?

SomeSound-MostlyFury

Modern-Rock Radio Continues Its Slide Into Irrelevance, Three Days Grace Advocacy

Halfwit — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:53:51 EDT

On the ringtone front, I would definitely (read: will commit to on a blog) buy a ringtone that consisted solely of Jack White screaming "La la la la LA la la la la la laaa laaa laaaaaa..."

Halfwit

Modern-Rock Radio Continues Its Slide Into Irrelevance, Three Days Grace Advocacy

whipmaster — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:07:29 EDT

ummm.... the riff from Icky thump??????!!!!!

whipmaster

Modern-Rock Radio Continues Its Slide Into Irrelevance, Three Days Grace Advocacy

Audif Jackson Winters III — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:07:08 EDT

Are there really even that many stations that play this format anymore? Even a modern rock stalwart like KROQ seems to rely quite a bit on the "alternative gold" format, at least when I've listened to it.

Audif Jackson Winters III

Modern-Rock Radio Continues Its Slide Into Irrelevance, Three Days Grace Advocacy

Aleb — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:33:28 EDT

Aww, you really want to bring back the nostalgia in me, right?

This is not a modern rock chart, it's something else. The point, I guess, is that this nu metal/emo/post grunge fossil called alternative has lasted way too long, it needs variety to survive. Where is electronica on the playlists? Indie rock? Acoustic songs? Dance oriented songs? Solo artists? Female artists!?

I want the 90's back!

Aleb

Modern-Rock Radio Continues Its Slide Into Irrelevance, Three Days Grace Advocacy

Al Shipley — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:18:06 EDT

I know I'm kind of the resident corporate rock apologist here, but this really doesn't look that bad to me. At least four of these songs are among my favorite singles of the year (1, 2, 4 and 5) and I only out and out dislike two of them (3 and 10). Yeah most of these songs have been dominating the chart for way too long, but rock radio playlists have always moved sluggishly, haven't they?

Al Shipley