"Garrett Wollman" wrote in message
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In article ,
David Eduardo wrote:

Everyone realizes the average listener only wants to hear a small bit of
new
music.

Only if you accept the thesis that "the average listener" is a
drooling idiot.

Only if you actually ask, as I do, tens of thousands of listeners a year
what they want to hear. essentially non want to hear more than a small
number of new songs each week.

Of course, since two decades of radio programming directed towards
morons has driven many non-morons away from radio entirely (at least
as a source on musical entertainment), this could now reasonably be
stipulated as the audience living up (or rather, down) to programmers'
expectations.

This is true of most human beings, radio listeners or not. The unfamiliar is
harder to assimilate than the familiar. Go to a club sometime and see which
songs the folks dance to... is it the unfamiliar or the known? Go to an
artist concert... when do the folks applaud? I'll bet it is when the artist
sings the big hits, not when they sing the unfamiliar new stuff they want to
hype from the new album.

95% of Americas listen to radio. Either you are wrong, or there are not many
bright people in America any more.