Great insight MAB... Thanks for the info. Now one thing I've found, which I've always really "known" but never thought of, is there are TWO reporting charts. The public is reeling due to the Texas Music Chart being the oldest... It did act as a catalyst for launching many artists, Eli Young Band for instance began getting their notoriety from there... Kacey Musgraves, etc. all started there as "competition" and unknowns to the rest of the world, but the good ones do what you often advise, make trips to Nashville!!!! It's my studies of artists who excel or fall off the "making trips" equation is always rolled into success, they go, hob knob, remain humble, and bring those skills back to Texas and apply them.
What I failed to realize, or remember was there is another chart The Texas Regional Radio Report which is really the benchmark, began in 2006 out of complaints of unfair placement of artists in the chart based solely on money. Now since I'm finally writing with artists who frequent these charts, I get to visit there homes and see... Their lives. Many times my home is bigger, they live in average neighborhoods, etc. You know me, I'm a sponge, I just shut up an let them talk, I hear stories of money, vs. artists pulling venue tabs based on the older fan base they bring in an attempt to command more, who hates who, LOL it's crazy. And the money! Involved in a radio tour, and getting The relationships to be considered. The charts... Are just as you said for bragging rights sure but TRR does it a bit different, knowing that places like south and west Texas are sparsely populated as to central, southeast, Texas, etc. They kind of do a more fair draw, like drawing the popularity of a song by factoring the reporting stations in the region, compared against more populated areas, they have a better algorithm for accuracy. So they still still go on reporting, and I speculate likely grow. Just judging by being here in the heart of it all, and knowing the tenacity of these fans. I hear you on the genre thing, I'm about to create my own genre, Texicana....
What I failed to realize, or remember was there is another chart The Texas Regional Radio Report which is really the benchmark, began in 2006 out of complaints of unfair placement of artists in the chart based solely on money. Now since I'm finally writing with artists who frequent these charts, I get to visit there homes and see... Their lives. Many times my home is bigger, they live in average neighborhoods, etc. You know me, I'm a sponge, I just shut up an let them talk, I hear stories of money, vs. artists pulling venue tabs based on the older fan base they bring in an attempt to command more, who hates who, LOL it's crazy. And the money! Involved in a radio tour, and getting The relationships to be considered. The charts... Are just as you said for bragging rights sure but TRR does it a bit different, knowing that places like south and west Texas are sparsely populated as to central, southeast, Texas, etc. They kind of do a more fair draw, like drawing the popularity of a song by factoring the reporting stations in the region, compared against more populated areas, they have a better algorithm for accuracy. So they still still go on reporting, and I speculate likely grow. Just judging by being here in the heart of it all, and knowing the tenacity of these fans. I hear you on the genre thing, I'm about to create my own genre, Texicana....
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