Programming in the Time of Streaming: ROR Declaration No. 3

There are people on both the radio and music sides of the industry who have been trying to put a positive spin on the state of music and the charts over the last five years. The audience is choosing now, label friends say, no longer at the mercy of A&R people or radio gatekeepers.  If “the people” want “Beautiful Things” for 19 months or 63-year-old Lesley Gore LP cuts for a few weeks, who are we to curate?