We are into our 10th year with KB Radio and not only couldn't I/we done it without great listenera but also amazing aupport from artists promoters, record labels and the list goea on.
II tried to figure out how many thousand songs we had submitted to us over the years and i couldn't do it. Some of my earlier records and logs were all on paper, and with a change in systems a coue times, I am sure i dont have an exacr number. But i can tell you we exceed 10,000 songs each year now so even conservitively i would have to say 75,000 plus over 10 years.
Over the last few months we started a process to narrow down numbers as far as number of songs on this list. As you can imagine over the years there has been some amazing tracks and some that, well maybe aren't as amazing. One of the things I have done is try and offer consistency to the indie artista with their music.
I guess let me go back to the beginning somewhat. When KB went to a 24 hour station I wanted to highlight Indie music. The online radio scene has changed a lot in 10 years. Back then most people were running 24/7 Indie music. I wanted to approach it in the manner that i had done with Top 40 radio or Hot AC on Terrestrial radio. The idea of those formats is to play the most popular tracks over and over. I didnt necessarily want to be flooding my rotation with Indies, but I did want to present it in a way listeners could learn to recognize songs and artists.
I set it up so the best Indie tracks got played about 5 times a week. One song from an artist like in a top 40 radio format. (Sort of) Songs would also stay in that rotation for 2 months. Other Indie tracks would get one play a week at various times through the week or during special Indie ahows. While not playing as much hopefully still providing some recognition factor.
Songs in high rotation also could get on the weekly countdown which afforded more airplay and recognition.
What happened after the 60 days is the part that leads us to todays topic. The best of the best, songs that did well on the chart, were popular with listeners and more were moved into a permanent rotation and have stayed on the station. There are some Indies that i have been playing since day 1 on KB.
We started with this massive list of aongs as our place to begin looking for what we think are aome of the absolute best over the past 10 years. We started an elimination process narrowing it down from about 1000 songs down to 140. I know its a weird number but it what we achieved when we then started reaching out to friends, musicians, promoters etc to go through theae 140 songs and give us their Top 40.
We didnt ask for a #1 to 40 just 40 songs. From that point we have been adding up all the favorites to see who is the 40 favorite among these listeners.
We are about 5 or 6 weeks away from presenting a special show, with the 40 favorite Indie songs on KB over the last 10 years.
We will be announcing an air date upon our return from vacation. It is our hope to reach out to every artist on that list and let them know. I am aware some of the bands are no longer together but we will do our best to track everyone down.
We look forward to sharing this with everyone as we celsbrate 10 years of broadcasting and great Indie music.
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