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Real & Phony Charts - RADIO & SALES
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Renita Marie du Bourbon, PARIS

Back in the Distant Dawn of Printed Piano Forte and Parlor Sing-A-Long Folios the only push to find out which tunes were the most popular were concerned with making Player Piano Rolls! The advent of sound recordings changed all that in such a rush it took nearly FORTY years to make a dent of any consequence. But once RADIO came on the air at regular hours, KDKA, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, began to explore unknown territory on an expedition that is still in the field and a long way from final report!

Hard on the heels of mass-reach capability and for-profit use royalties law suits by ASCAP came the 'necessity' of a 'chart' of some sort to dictate which of the many records were really the most popular.

Where they were 'the most popular', radio or sales, was never made clear to the General Public and still isn't clear today. And by deliberate design!

The data used to make such determinations was reputedly gathered from those who either aired the record or sold them across the counter. The two original sources: 1) radio reporting the number of listener requests and 2) reported over the counter sales; instantly became corrupted and no mercy was shown on anyone who dared 'question' the process!

Today, as always money still talks and the charts published by Billboard, Radio & Records, Gavin and on/off Cashbox are as phony as last year's Second Coming of Jesus Christ! Anyone can 'chart' in any of the three by buying enough advertising, some of which might even get printed.

As of this writing, Radio & Records has been reputedly trying to clean up their act, but until they accept and fairly list Independent Labels their efforts remain as phony as Billboard and Cashbox always have been. Billboard's SoundScan con-job notwithstanding.

Gavin only 'charts' labels with "Gavin Membership" and that's why Aavonica's (VANDOR MUSIC GROUP, VMG) many successes are conspicuous by their absence. Aavonica refuses to be black-mailed by anybody, regardless of the costs. As one of the nine General Licensers, they have no qualms about telling anybody "to go to hell" and especially when their integrity is in question. (UPDATE: Aavonica Licensing, Limited has reverted to it's original Vandor Motion Pictures, Phonorecords and Music Publishing Group (VMG) status following their recent expansion.)

But Independent Labels must suffer the 'major label' myths and delusions, and especially when it comes to real and phony charts and direct record sales. Getting a chart record is easy enough, but selling records is an entirely different nightmare! There are only NINE General Licensers who have world wide distribution, and they sell virtually all the records found on legitimate Record Store shelves. Generally speaking, the Label is either distributed by one of these NINE, or it's dead.

However, the major difference between General Licensers is whether or not their 'budget' includes stocking the shelves with product whether it sells or not on the Executive Producer's nickel (Yes, that part is GREEN for a reason!) and any high lifestyle enjoyed by the General Licenser or 'label' Executive, swimming pools, etcetera.

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Most Americans had never heard of Polygram and incorrectly supposed it to be some Johnny-come-Lately without so much as a grain of an idea as to the American Music Scene or the "in" musical tastes. They were wrong on both accounts. Those who insisted Mercury's near demise in a hail of bad blood from the Black Community, and sale to some 'out of towners' would lower the label to that of any other backyard studio record company, were wrong about that too. Even so, the "I" word was in the world to stay.

That Mercury and it's second label, Smash, had impressive track records from Patti "Tennessee Waltz" Page to Matt "I'm Movin' On" Lucas, was neither overlooked nor ignored by the Execs at Poly, and they spared no effort to return the label to its glory of yesteryear. However, the Kiss of Death identity of "Indie" stuck to Mercury like hot glue and many recordings were re-released under the Polygram and Polydor labels to avoid the stigma.

Mercury was one of those 'major' labels of the 'direct promotion' scam to eliminate all 'indies', instituting buy back of unsalable copies from distributors, blackmailing 'chart' mags into retaining the TOP 40 positions (thus the so-called "Top 40") for that Elite Few (leaving the remainder for whoever could afford to buy the bottom sixty (to avoid Anti-Trust litigation), and deliberately perpetuating the myth that 'talent' is the only way to 'be discovered'. With phony 'charts' the only charts, those so-called 'majors' had it their way for years.

However, the truth is: there is no such thing as an Indie or Major label! There are only distributed and non-distributed labels! And until the so-called industry recognized 'charts' list independents, distributed or not, on an equal and fair basis with the so-called majors: there won't be such a thing as an honest chart either!

That Billboard was forced to switch to a 'sales tracking' system called SoundScan (SoundSCAM would be more appropriate!) didn't raise their credibility one iota. Their 'sales tracking' is as phony as ever. They still dictate to their 'reporting' stations what they can and cannot air, and manipulate the reported sales from outlets and those from the majors to make any given record show up anywhere they want it in the so-called 'charts' in direct proportion to 'advertising' purchases.

The latest attempt to provide honest reporting and tracking is Airplay, International of Nashville. However, their use of their own labels, Fox Fire and Blue Denim, strip them of a lot of credibility they might have enjoyed, even though anyone can be present when they run the chart numbers. And they do have one of the few credible radio compilations available. It smacks of conflict of interest just like reported Time-Warner's ownership of Billboard and Warner Brothers Records through various corporate layers. Guess who gets their choice of any chart slot they want? The integrity of any chart published by owners of a label found therein is then and there suspect. (UPDATE! When this article was being researched - 1991-1994 - Time Warner was calling all the Billboard 'executive decision' shots. However, Billboard is now owned lock, stock, and chart-listing liars, by VNU, a Dutch publishing company. Perhaps there's changes in the works. We'll keep a good thought, we just won't hold our breath.)

Since it's common knowledge that all original ideas, musical and technical, are out of the Independent Label camp and only exploited by the so-called 'majors': it is high time for the Industry-At-Large to stop all this "Billboard/R&R/Gavin"only' nonsense and get back in touch with the market beginning with the Broadcasters!

Perhaps if we did that, talent would again mean something. Even if not, the honesty would be refreshing.

And that's something the Industry has seen far too little of in this entire Century: plain old honesty.
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