AU & NZ

Lauren Joyce: “K & J’s content might not be to everyone’s taste, but it’s to the taste of 1.7 million loyal listeners”

Hear that? It’s the sound of ARN’s top-level executives breathing a collective sigh of relief. Almost a year and a half since their X-rated launch down south, Kyle and Jackie O – the polarising Sydney duo on whom the company has gambled the corporate equivalent of the house, the car and the first-born child –… Read More
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US

The Cred Factor: The Songs People Want to Represent

From the first time it appeared in Ross on Radio, “The Lost Factor” seemed like a pretty good measure of how well the hit singles of previous years endured today, dividing the number of points they amassed on a year-end chart by the spins they received at radio now. Even with radio’s shifting influence, big-market airplay remained a pretty good measure of mainstream tastes. […]