tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889627852774263513.post1374093534294418480..comments2023-08-10T10:19:38.242-07:00Comments on Spinning Indie: Does Reporting to CMJ make you bad?Jennifer Waitshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11249194013365198161noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889627852774263513.post-11231588012532387332010-02-03T07:45:37.726-08:002010-02-03T07:45:37.726-08:00Many station included in the CMJ charts are not ju...Many station included in the CMJ charts are not just reporters. They are monitored by Mediaguide. The station's airplay is tracked 24/7/365 and that data used by CMJ, ASCAP and others. The days of completely bogus charts are largely over.Jose Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10688454434303787206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889627852774263513.post-56825420229530539052009-07-07T08:43:37.124-07:002009-07-07T08:43:37.124-07:00Indie labels and bands can often only afford to re...Indie labels and bands can often only afford to release their album to so many stations. So it make sense for them to want to release to the stations that give them a shot at charting on CMJ. If it costs a couple thousand dollars to mail out and track 300 stations, then you may as well focus on CMJ reporting stations for a chance to hit the charts. It's not like being played on college radio is going to cause people to start buying your album like crazy off iTunes, for most bands the real goal is trying to chart so they can get their name at (hopefully) the top of a list that people pay attention to.Jephhttp://www.theprettyfaces.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889627852774263513.post-4550748815787513882009-02-11T20:17:00.000-08:002009-02-11T20:17:00.000-08:00I am working at a relatively new college radio sta...I am working at a relatively new college radio station (we're about a year old) and I've been contacting labels about getting on their radio mailing lists. It seems like they all want to know if we accept digital submissions (which we do as we are completely digital) and if we report to CMJ. It seems to me that a lot of labels don't want to ssend their music because we are not reporting to CMJ.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889627852774263513.post-40652135085514640172008-02-11T13:59:00.000-08:002008-02-11T13:59:00.000-08:00CMj has it's own charting standards and you have t...CMj has it's own charting standards and you have to send them material in their format breakdown. There is a HUGE amount of pressure on student music directors to chart what the label reps tell them is charting and to 'add' songs during weeks when the reps are 'going for adds'. If there is a more experienced person in the staff at the college station, they can (and should) make a VERY strong case to the student MD that they need to pick their OWN music, tell the reps to bugger off and play what they want to play. Most students are neither secure enough or supported enough to do this and so CMJ charts are very much what the labels dictate. <BR/><BR/>BTW, CMJ sells the colleges the magazine which they have to chart in in order for many labels to decide that they are 'legitimate' stations. CMJ also sells those same labels the data on the stations. The only winner in this whole fraud is CMJ.<BR/><BR/>I've been involved with college radio since 1986 myself and have watched CMJ become more and more of a concern. I can relate dozens of stations that send CMJ fake charts to appease the label reps and then play what they want instead. Why? CMJ has made everyone thing its required for a college station to exist.<BR/><BR/>in snswer to your question, "no" reporting to CMJ doesn't make you bad. Reporting what label reps WANT you to report and not thinking for yourself and programming your station yourself makes you bad. And lazy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com