Asbolutely right Brian!

As you know, we foolishly used my sister's hard earned money to be "promoted", yeah right, to radio stations, and get charts faxed to us, having us in front of the likes of McCartney's Run Devil Run song. Yeah right again. The charts were bogus, (made up by the promoter), and we had no gigs anywhere, nevermind in the places where our song "was supposed" to be playing in. Dumb on our part. Some online stores had our CD, and one local Tower Records. We even had a distributor that was going to put our songs in stores, but he couldn't find any stores near the stations claimed to be playing our song by the promoter.

Radio promotion for artist not 100% ready for promotion is a complete waste of money and excitment. It only makes money for the promoter, no matter if not one play is achieved. They win, you lose.

Good topic to make people aware of. Radio play sounds dreamy and all that. Don't let the fantasy of "being on the radio" make you reach for your wallet. Most likely, there will be zero plays, or plays that mean anything, as Brian described.

John Daubert

Actually a Member Since 1996 or 97 (Number One Hundred Something).
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