#radio music promotion

[undergroundsounds]

[aeolianblues]

Some more promotional Gorillaz CDs sent to our radio station.

Early singles like Tomorrow Comes Today, sent in 2001. The debut album. D-Sides, and second album Demon Days. All with Jamie Hewlett’s lovely artwork!

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[stone-cold-groove]

Wings’ Wings at the Speed of Sound teaser ad - 1976.

[yellowmanula]

Jacek Żebrowski na wernisażu Dominika Podsiadłego promuje Rave Fm

[kokiafans]

KOKIA updates - new releases (November 2024)

KOKIA has updated her official web page with new information about her recent single and upcoming new album. Here are the updates to keep you in the loop.

Arigatou... (KOKIA's version)

(October 1 blog entry & October 3 news)

KOKIA recorded her song Arigatou... ('Thank you...') again for a digital single, this time labeling the version 'KOKIA's version'. The single was available starting midnight from the night rolling into October 2.

The single is available via various online sources here. She also produced a music video to go along with the single, which can be found on her official YouTube channel.

Essence -25th Anniversary All Time Best-

(October 3 news & October 3 blog entry)

On November 20, 2024, KOKIA's best album Essence -25th Anniversary All Time Best- will be released. Unlike many of her most recent releases, this album will be available in general music stores and not her official web shop. The full tracklist is also available (I'll include it at the end of this entry).

Several websites have also posted about the album, some including extras:

The HMV website offers a special first come, first served postcard if y you pre-order the album via their shop.

Tower Records has a special in-store event on November 27, 2024 at their Umeda NU Chayamachi store in Osaka, Japan. If you purchase your copy of the album there, you will receive a ticket for event admission and for an autograph session (both first come, first serve, with the former given out once per order, and the latter for every album purchased). The event will open at 19:00 and start at 19:30. Purchasers will also get a postcard as long as supplies last.

Additional events

General ticket sales for her November 2 strings concert SHI-NA-RU at Suntory Blue Rose have started, so the release month of her new album. The concert features KOKIA with just piano, violin and cello, themed around Arigatou... (her gratitude). The concert is being prepared as a replacement for her big hall concerts in spring, which she didn't get to do this year.

KOKIA's album shares its name with KOKIA's new radio show, KOKIA's the Essence of Music, which started airing Sunday, October 6, 2024 from 1:30 to 2:00 AM (technically early Monday morning), and is a weekly radio show.

Tracklist

Below follows the tracklist for KOKIA's album Essence -25th Anniversary All Time Best-. It will also be featured on the discography page.

Disc 1: YELL

1. Shiroi Notebook ('White notebook') (2023 digital single) 2. The Power of Smile (2003 single) 3. Say Hi!! (2003 single) 4. Ningen tte sonna mono ne ('that’s how people are’) (2002 single) 5. Kawaranai koto - since 1976 - ('things that won’t change’) (2003 single) 6. So much love for you (2004 single) 7. Yume ga chikara ('dreams are strength’) (2004 single) 8. Dandelion (2005 single) 9. Ai no melody ('melody of love') (2006 single) 10. Watashi ni dekiru koto ('The things I can do') (2007 single) 11. Inori ni mo nita utsukushii sekai (Music, like a prayer) (2007 album aigakikoeru) 12. Kodoku na ikimono ('Lonely beings') (2010 single) 13. moment ~ima o ikiru~ ('live in the now') (2011 album moment) 14. Yume no tochuu ('on my way to my dream') (2013 album Where to go my love?) 15. INFINITY (2009 album KOKIA∞AKIKO ～balance～)

Disc 2: HEAL

1. Arigatou... (KOKIA's version) ('Thank you...') (New recording) 2. Fukurou ('Owl') (2017 digital single) 3. Chouwa oto ~with reflection~ ('Sound of harmony') (2006 single B-side) 4. tomoni ('together') (2001 single) 5. Tenshi ('Angel') (2001 single) 6. Remember the kiss (2003 single B-side) 7. Time to say goodbye (2005 single) 8. Ooki na senaka ('Broad back') (2009 album AKIKO∞KOKIA ～balance～) 9. Kimi o sagashite ('Searching for you') (2009 digital single) 10. Hontou no oto ('Real sound') (2011 album moment) 11. Where to go my love (Piano ver.) (2013 album Where to go my love?) 12. Kotou (’isolated island’) (2020 digital single) 13. Kisetsu hazure no sakura ('Late blooming cherry blossoms') (2022 digital single) 14. a gift (2002 album trip trip) 15. Obake ga kowai nante (’what is it with ghosts being scary’) (2018 album Tokyo Mermaid)

Limited first edition Blu-ray:

Music video collection of the following:

Arigatou... (KOKIA's version) ('Thank you...')

tomoni ('together')

Say Hi!!

Tenshi ('Angel')

Ningen tte sonna mono ne ('that’s how people are’)

(TV spot) Kawaranai koto - since 1976 - ('things that won’t change’)

Kawaranai koto - since 1976 -

(TV spot) Remember me (album)

The Power of Smile

Remember the kiss (duet "KOKIA & piano")

(TV spot) so much love for you

so much love for you

(TV spot) Yume ga chikara, uta ga chikara ('dreams are strength', 'songs are strength') (album)

Yume ga chikara

(TV spot) dandelion

dandelion

(TV spot) time to say goodbye

time to say goodbye (duet "KOKIA & piano")

(TV spot) Ai no melody ('melody of love')

Ai no melody

moment ~ima o ikiru~ ('live in the now') (Stage recording)

Bonus video:

Arigatou... (KOKIA's version) (making of)

[persephoneflouwers]

It's a new single in Italy too https://twitter.com/radioairplay_it/status/1633769598267932674?s=46&t=mvTAw9jWfh8OZn8f86CleA

Oh good! March 10th, which is tomorrow ✨

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[newleasemusic]

We’re now promoting albums of all genres to radio stations in the UK and across the globe!

For more details, email pr@newleasemusic.com

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[releaseholiday]

[khemistac]

🔥 Fire Comes With The Smoke!💨

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[cladriteradio]

Did your grandfather carry a Quikoin coin purse? So did ours! We’ve long wanted to offer a Quikoin emblazoned with our logo as a thank-you to those who help keep our toe-tapping tunes alive and streaming. Now you can have a Cladrite Radio Quikoin all your own! To learn more about the history of the Quickoin and how you can get one, visit bit.ly/CR_Quikoin!

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[berlinini]

I have a thought. Do you think that Louis keeps stressing that his music is not pop, its indie/alternative or whatever because he would even be more shunned if he were to try to compete in the pop genre? Do you think that is his way of trying to create a space for himself where they would at least let him be? Unfortunately, he knows he will never be accepted by the wider indie community or will get to play the festivals and stages that those artists play so he has reconciled with that fact and hence is stuck in a no man's land?

Hmmmm I don’t think he has ever defined his musical style as indie? Charlie did for sure. Louis has said the new album is more like the stuff he listens to. And when talking about ooms and silver tongues he described them as punk rock?

I think a good 2/3 of the songs on the new album are still pop. I also think he dislikes the word because it comes with lots of baggage for him (see his famous notes app note). Somehow Louis has also integrated the belief that the music he makes isn’t radio friendly, which is just pure bullshit.

Anyways seeing the different genres on fitf I think he’s just making whatever music he wants to make without trying to fit into a precise category, and he knows he won’t ever be a huge “pop star” and his his ex-boyband label means fans of indie/rock music will always have preconceptions about him. But he makes excellent songs so if people are open to discover his stuff, I’m sure they will admit so.

[faith--in-the-future]

people on twitter dragging him for demand tho because he’s not selling these venues and ngl i feel low-key scared that he won’t sell it and is going to play in empty venues :( i hate the fact that bmg and matt vines don’t have a plan at all to fucking promote louis and his tour. they had so many opportunities ffs, make written all over your face a single and PROMOTE IT, release a fucking documentary and use it to promote his tour, they ‘promoted’ tour along with the album but they didn’t promote the album at all as well 😭 they thought the fans will buy the tickets as always and when it didn’t happen they choose to promote it or whatever they’re doing in the simplest way. it’s embarrassing for them and i can’t even describe how much i hate them. instead of doing these shitty interviews about how louis’ fans are 14 yo maybe they should’ve done with the promotion and stuff better lol fuck them. also i bet louis thinks he was too ambitious with this tour and it makes me so :(

the fans did buy the tickets! I'm sure once all the dates are out and u count the tickets sold they won't be less than what he sold for ltwt the problem is that if u make a bigger tour u HAVE to EXPAND your fanbase, you can't rely on the existing one bc well.. the math just doesn't make sense! and Matt vines is so fucking stupid for saying he doesn't care about radioplay and charts bc bitch that's the only way people van actually listen to his music and become fans !! if u don't make the fanbase grow how can u expect to make the tour grow !! it's DUMB! I'm sure the latam leg will sell easily once the dates are out but Europe and North America are I think around 60% /70% sold rn (which doesn't mean empty venues but considering how little he's charging and how much more everything costs after the pandemic that could very possibly be a problem in terms of covering the costs imo)

i really hope that louis doesn't start blaming himself for this bc it.is not his fault tbh, he isn't a manager or a tour organizer or a marketing expert, he should blame the people who he pays for that and who are clearly not doing their jobs ! and I hope he realizes that this can't go on !

[aeolianblues]

“The masterplan was, there was no masterplan. Except to write good songs. Oh yeah, and to be the biggest band in the world. A modest ambition, but it put Oasis on the road to greatness.”

OASIS - THE MASTERPLAN (1998)

Plus some more pics of Oasis albums we have at our stations, sent to us promotionally by Sony Canada on behalf of Creation Records.

Liner notes below the cut:

The masterplan was, there was no masterplan. Except to write good songs. Oh yeah, and to be the biggest band in the world. A modest ambition, but it put Oasis on the road to greatness. "Me mam always used to say, God loves a tryer," Noel Gallagher says. "And I went, 'Why? Has he got a car?' She went, 'No, a tryer-Not a tyre." So the Gallagher boys did try, and if you want proof of how hard they tried then hear these tracks - B-sides, all of them, made by a band who believe a B-side is no excuse not to care. Outside of Britain it hasn't always been easy to hear Oasis B-sides. But in Britain or anywhere else, they sound majestic played back-to-back.

We open heroically with ACQUIESCE which is one of those all-time "shoulda been an A-side" numbers. (Creation Records certainly thought so, and who could blame them?) The song is about friendship in the widest sense and not, as often speculated, about the Gallagher brothers themselves. Noel sings the chorus because, he claims, Liam couldn't reach the high notes. Or he was in the pub. Whatever, it was written on a slow train to Wales and made possible because Noel likes to travel with his guitar. It's no surprise that Acquiesce is present: via the Internet, Oasis fans were asked to vote on this album's choice of tracks.

But the inclusion of UNDERNEATH THE SKY might have been "influenced" by Noel, who cites this as a favourite song. Its happy-wanderer feel was inspired by a pocket-book of travellers' quotes he came across, and the jollity's enhanced by a four-handed piano part courtesy of him and Bonehead (who tackles the tinkly bits, apparently).

TALK TONIGHT is another self-selecting choice, from Noel's acoustic repertoire. Beautifully tender, its thoughtful air derives from a Texas studio session: Noel was back after his brief flounce from the band on a US tour: "Me and Liam had a disagreement, probably about what shoes he was wearing, so I'd fucked off to Las Vegas." It was an Oasis fan in San Francisco who talked him down off the ledge. The same reflective interlude gave us another song, in HALF THE WORLD AWAY (which is Paul Weller's favourite Oasis track). The pressure was already building, though, when Noel began writing (IT'S GOOD TO BE FREE, at the start of those troubled American dates. He finished it in Las Vegas: "Cocaine psychosis," reckoned producer Owen Morris, detecting a Fear And Loathing vibe in that sinister guitar feedback. Accordion expert Bonehead donates the breezy coda, which lends a misleadingly cheerful touch to what was a deeply fraught Oasis session: "Believe me, it was horribe. it wasn't funny at all." The Morse Code segment, by the way, is meaningless so far as anyone knows.

The oldest song here is GOING NOWHERE, written around 1990 before the band was signed ("It's about what we were going to do when we got a shitload of money off Creation"); it was not recorded until after the Be Here Now album, when there was a hankering for something less massive. Noel and drummer Alan White are the only Oasis members involved, with piano, brass and horn players to bring a vaguely Burt Bacharach atmosphere. Noel only wishes he knew another rhyme for "car" and

"Jaguar." Nearly as vintage in its origins, however, was HEADSHRINKER: recorded for Some Might Say in '95, it was written about three years earlier, during the band's punkier phase. It's also one of Liam's greatest vocals, partly because of the freedom from pressure that doing B-sides can offer. Although a load of drug references were binned from the lyric, a manic edge remains to this tale of an early girlfriend Liam could not shake off. It may start out like The Faces' Stay With Me, but Noel says he was thinking of The Rolling Stones at the time. And ROCKIN' CHAIR dates from Noel's days in Manchester, planning to leave his own girlfriend and dreaming of the good life down in London.

FADE AWAY first surfaced on Cigarettes & Alcohol, and was probably elbowed off Definitely Maybe in favour of Slide Away. Since then the chorus alone has guaranteed its popularity with Oasis fans: "The dreams we have as children fade away...

It's about growing up but not growing old," says Noel, echoing a John Lennon belief that you won't get anything unless you've got the vision to imagine it. It's a classic Buzzcocks trick, this, placing a wistful lyric inside the most glorious rush of punk rock energy. That said, it was a relief for Noel to do a track like THE SWAMP SONG, which required no words at all. Alongside Roll With It, The Swamp Song was a warm-up exercise for the Morning Glory sessions; it was also used to set the sound levels at Glastonbury, which is where Alan White's thunderous drumming was taped. Later on, when Paul Weller turned up for Champagne Supernova, he added The Swamp Song's harmonica and duelling guitars: "Very rock'n'roll," chortles Noel, "but we didn't manage to stand back to back once, which I was very upset about!" Its working title "The Jam" was scrapped, tragically.

Contrary to previous credits, I AM THE WALRUS was not recorded at the Glasgow Cathouse, but at a conference of Sony executives, gathered to hear Creation's new signings. Oasis used to play it at gigs in Liverpool, as an act of bravado aimed at the local bands, even The Beatles never did this one live. Technical note: any "looseness" in Noel's guitar playing here is attributed to half a bottle of Sony-financed gin. Speaking of guitars, the soaring LISTEN UP used to boast a solo much longer than the one you hear in this version; Liam had wanted it shorter, so Noel had disagreed on principle ("If you don't argue with Liam he gets upset"). Four years later, Liam has got his way. The poppy STAY YOUNG, meanwhile, was first ear-marked to be "the Digsy's Dinner" of Be Here Now, until Noel wrote Magic Pie and dumped it. Stay Young wound up on D'You Know What I Mean?, and could have been another A-side if its composer had actually liked the song. But he doesn't. (Audiences, who have more sense than songwriters, all love it.)

But we end with a track that Noel Gallagher is definitely proud of. In fact he regards THE MASTERPLAN as his finest piece of work. Even Liam now wishes he'd sung it himself. The writing came easily, inspired in equal measure by a Japanese hotel corridor and a good, relaxing smoke. "I'm the best lyricist in Oasis, is how I like to say it," Noel shrugs. "But to me this sums up your journey through life. All we know is that we don't know." Is it, we might wonder, sung to Liam? ("Please brother let it be") Again the answer is No.

"We're all brothers and sisters," says Noel. And so we are, and so are Oasis whether named

Gallagher, McGuigan, White or indeed Bonehead. They're brothers and they're tryers, all five. They try for themselves and they try for the rest of us. No wonder God loves them.

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Most becoming legends. Shorewood Packaging Corporation ad - 1973.

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[trapangeles]

Are Artists Missing Out by Skipping Clean Versions and Ignoring Radio?

In today's music industry, streaming platforms have become the primary avenue for artists to distribute their work, often leading to the neglect of traditional radio promotion and the production of clean versions of songs. However, this shift may result in missed opportunities for broader audience engagement and exposure.

The Enduring Influence of Radio

Despite the dominance of streaming services, radio remains a significant medium for music discovery and promotion. It offers artists access to diverse demographics, including listeners who may not actively use streaming platforms. Radio airplay can enhance an artist's visibility, credibility, and potential for chart success. Moreover, radio stations often feature interviews, live sessions, and promotional events that can further boost an artist's profile.

The Importance of Clean Versions

Creating clean versions of songs is crucial for radio play, as many stations adhere to content guidelines that prohibit explicit material. Without radio-friendly edits, artists limit their chances of being featured on these platforms, thereby reducing their reach. Additionally, clean versions make music more accessible in public spaces and to younger audiences, expanding an artist's fan base.

Balancing Digital and Traditional Media

While streaming platforms offer vast opportunities, integrating radio promotion into an artist's marketing strategy can provide a more comprehensive approach. By embracing both digital and traditional media, artists can maximize their exposure and connect with a wider audience.

Conclusion

Neglecting radio and the production of clean versions may result in missed opportunities for artists to expand their reach and influence. Incorporating radio promotion and ensuring content suitability for various platforms can enhance an artist's visibility and success in the competitive music landscape.

Attribution: Information sourced from Magnetic Magazine and Wikipedia.

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