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\n \n RADIO STATION FORMATS? <\/span>\n\n \n \n Understanding The Difference Between Genres And Formats <\/span>\n <\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Make no mistake genre of music is not the same as a music format at radio. This is more than likely the biggest\u00a0misnomer for an independent musician. \u00a0Understanding the difference will set you apart from others which have not taken the time to gain the knowledge.<\/p>\n

Think of it like this . . .your grand mother bakes the most wonderful cinnamon apple pie, however no matter what you call it. . . it\u2019s still an apple pie. When it comes to music, artists love to use many genre driven words to describe their music (which is only great for a conversation). However, when it comes to the music industry, we only care about what \u201cformat\u201d the music should be placed, promoted and marketed.<\/p>\n

A format is derived from radio stations.\u00a0Radio stations<\/a>\u00a0are the \u201cheartbeat\u201d and \u201cnervous system\u201d within the music industry and it is a MUST that your music nicely fits within their playlist with other comparable artists\/bands.<\/p>\n

Commercial radio<\/a>\u00a0is based around one song by one artist at any particular time. Non-commercial radio may accept multiple songs by a particular artist at any given time. \u00a0We will write about that in a different article.<\/p>\n

Remember one thing, as an artist you are only what your music is when it comes to radio. For example, you may say you are a hard rock artist like Metallica, however if you decide to put one of your ballads out to radio, you won\u2019t be promoting this slow song to Hard Rock radio. More than likely you will focus your promotion and marketing to a format of radio who\u2019s market is ballads. This is ever more apparent with superstar Country artist Taylor Swift. When Taylor Swift first debuted her talents the average joe had a hard time believing she was a Country artist and that was because she only had a couple \u201ccountry\u201dsongs on the album. After she has a string of country \u201chits\u201d Big Machine\u2019s founder Scott Borchetta put his efforts in pushing Swift\u2019s pop music to Top40\/CHR (Current Hit Radio) radio. This sent Taylor Swift into the stratosphere with her music career as Top40 is the largest format of music with the most listeners worldwide.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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