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 Marketing is huge when coming to concert touring and concert season is coming up as well as festival season so here is how you can get free tickets and it could be easier than you think... 1. Radio Giveaways Social media, concert announcements, street team activities all have free ticket opportunities for multiple concerts. Social media, sometimes its random winners from their comment sections or calling into a number or chosen from a mailing list....Concert announcements have dozens of tickets given out per station. Hundreds of free tickets for the year per station....Also they have other free item giveaways and gifting stuff like purses and other promos and events too.....shoutout iHeartRadio... They also have meet and greets for up and coming acts as well as small performances as well.... 2. Social Media Giveaways  The band gives away free tickets sometimes, sometimes the label gives out free tickets and sometimes there are partnerships with other companies too with ticket...

What is a production runner? ~~~~As a runner, you'll act as a general assistant, working under the direction of the producer and other production staff to undertake whatever basic tasks are required to ensure the smooth running of the production process.~~~~~ A production runner runs errands, office stuff, food stuff, production stuff and we have cars too sometimes so we can bring people places and pick up and buy other things needed throughout the day. The fun thing about it is the days are very different everyday and keeps ya on your toes. But generally there are a number of similarities and tasks that you do for every touring crew.   Have really been a production runner or two types of venues, one 3,000 cap venue, Terminal 5 and Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut 10,000 seat venue. The arena was half the size of MSG but in terms of acts we generally got acts very similar to them and TD Garden being a market right between the cities with being smaller and easier to fill out an...

 Artist like Twenty One Pilots Billy Eilish and other top of the bill artists have a seemingly such an individual sound and it has to be tough to evolve overtime musicwise. Fans are huge in terms of merchandise being bought, concert touring sizes, meet and greets, and album packages. There's a huge amount of opportunity for engagement with fans.  And music trends in general have changed over time in how people consume music and how new fans are being introduced to music. People used to physically pass out CDs with their music and now it's streaming. Like radio used to individually select songs for the radio and a lot are more playlists and prerecorded filler. In terms of TV like it feels like it was huge to be on Disney or Nick, like a Britney or Justin Timberlake or Christina Aguilera, Ryan Rosling. and become a massive star and maybe still is with people like Jenna Ortega, Olivia Rodrigo, and Sabrina Carpenter and Dove Cameron.  Before then in terms of pop music, the bo...

 Pulling from both media base metrics from WMRQ throughout the year, and comparing them to the Amazon Music top 50 Alt list, below are some of my favorite. Now I am not on TikTok so I do not have that influence but of course a lot of viral songs do transfer over to chart toppers which I could pick coincidentally. Below are songs from Amazon that I loved on WMRQ and another post will be my favorite songs from the radio strictly from media base data.  A nice top 17 here. Just to note, some of the bands I loved from iHeart and didn't see the band until their Alter Ego show. I love Phoenix now and Beach Weather. and Lovelytheband from this years Alter ego, everyone knows their song Broken and this year Sail Away was perfect too.  Depeche Mode, Death Cab For Cuties and Måneskin all had hauntingly sad songs which I loved, Eat Your Young, catchy song, strange concept for music video as well but catchy. The Beaches and Cold War Kids had poppy catchy songs, Same with Out of My Min...

 Alt music played either on Octane on siriusxm or Spotify or apple streaming are huge. Radio play is and always has been tough to break into for artists due to song allocation on air with commercials, new music, classic music and other B-role interview/side chat radio host duties.  Below are Apples top 15 songs from 2023 but I'll also include my personal favorite from the radio play where I find music from Mediabase. Where do you listen to music? How do you find music? At the gym or shopping at the mall? At the grocery store it's usually top hits or throwbacks but word of mouth nows seems to strictly through social media Mainly Tik Tok blowing up so many artists and songs over Covid.  As much as things seemed slower, it was a great time to try and learn new things.  A few edits I would make would be to take out Billie Eilish. She seems entirely to pop driven in this track to be considered alt but some of her old tracks do seem also so who knows. Dial Drunk was huge t...

First Here is some data that I love to get from media base. This is a list of the labels represented on air and the count of tracks over the past two days. Next is going to be the count of songs throughout the two days. Next the chart is going to be my personal favorite over the two days.  So I go to MediaBase and look up my home town WMRQ Radio Station for a collection of alt throwbacks, feel goods, and up and coming tunes and picked my favorite top songs they stream. I'll also throw on Alt now on Spotify or Octane on Sirius or just any play lists to find something different.  I love discovering new artists and bands. And right before summer is perfect time for it before all these bands begin all their tours. Here's just some that I love! This is just a list of the different labels of the artists, my favorites and the top played songs! Top Artist and Labels 3/11/2024 Labels Count Columbia 33 Warner Bros. 16 RCA 14 Geffen 13 Capitol 12 DGC 11 Republic 10 Atlantic 9 Epic 8 MCA ...