A brief lesson in radio

Hello friends & fans of Due West.
If you're anything like us, then you love to learn new things about stuff that you never knew anything about before.
So today, we will share a little bit about what we're learning about the world of country music radio.
There are several different categories that radio stations fall under when it comes to the "charts"; monitor stations, indicator stations, music row stations, and non-reporters.

The more these stations play our song, the higher we move on the various charts that those stations report to. The higher we are on the charts, the more likely stations are to play our song. Stations understandably like to play popular music."Popular music" has usually been determined as such by it's chart position. So how do you gain chart position when your song is not yet 'popular'?

Great question. A new act like Due West, with a new song like "I Get That All The Time" fights this battle to make an impact at radio by going around to as many stations as possible in person. We get to know the program directors and staff members, sing for them, and basically beg them to play our music.

The more stations that we can get to take a chance on our music, the higher we'll chart. The higher we chart...well, you get the picture. At a certain point it can become a snowball effect. Once the song charts to a level where the majority of stations are playing it, then FINALLY at that point for the most part it is in the hands of listeners (YOU). If the people across the nation love the song, and react well to it, then we just might have a HIT on our hands!

It's all part of this interesting game called the music business, and we love it!