3.10.2009

Saddening Rock News: New York's Biggest Rock Station, 92.3, Disappearing

The article was published on the RollingStone website, the sentence below immediately drew my attention;

The shift to Top 40 represents the direction the entire music industry is heading: While music sales are slumping and radio stations are suffering through their worst years since the 1950s, sales of digital singles have gone through the roof. Top 40 radio caters to that crowd. To promote the new format, NOW FM will reportedly play 10,000 songs in a row of limited commercial interruption, the NYT reports.