Since so many of you had questions last week about what exactly radio “adds” are & what they mean to the overall picture, i thought I’d collect some info for you..
Here’s an excerpt from Bryan Farrish on what exactly the CMJ is and means…
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Let’s now focus on a chart… the CMJ college airplay chart, which is a great place for most new artists and labels to begin (provided, that your genre is suitable!)
CMJ is the “College Music Journal” or “College Media Journal”, depending on whom you ask. For us, it stands for music.
CMJ (and college music in general) is about 75% alternative. Indeed, the first chart we want to look at (and the main chart in CMJ) is the “Top 200″, which is 200 listings deep of alternative charting artists (compared to 40 or 50 of other charts). 200 might seem like a lot, but on any given week, over 2000 artists are attempting to chart (and don’t.) There are about 1000 college stations which are eligible to send their playlists to CMJ to be included in the Top 200 chart. About 350 to 600 do it on any given week.