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Blue Scholars #1 most added hip-hop at CMJ
Submitted by imaginary dana on May 8, 2007.
This just in: Blue Scholars are #1 most added hip-hop artist on CMJ this week, and their record Bayani debuted at #32 on the CMJ hip-hop chart. We have a review of the record coming soon, and it's an excellent one, so check back later this week.
A total of four Northwest artists are represented on the CMJ hip-hop chart: Blue Scholars (#32), the Saturday Knights (#30), Gabriel Teodros (#17), and Lifesavas (#6). Can I get a WOOT for NW hip-hop?
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Meinert said on May 8, 2007:
Uh, I run their label, and in 15 years of putting out records, I have never once paid for an ad on CMJ. These are real stations actually playing the album. For real.
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Erik Gonzalez said on May 8, 2007:
Well, thats good news then. That makes it a lot more meaningful and I'm glad that the Blue Scholars have got a good label. Anything that will make them big makes me happy as the first album is one of my favorite things ever.
Let's just say I had many many labels offer all sorts of goodies and such for the "ad". We stopped reporting ads because they're meaningless for a freeform college station anyway. Sigh, maybe I'm just old and jaded now.
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Erik Gonzalez said on May 8, 2007:
Well, good for the Blue Scholars!
That being said, "Ads" on CMJ are usually bought and sold like so much flea market crap (I speak from experience) that being a #1 Ad is most worthless.
And that being said, at least people are hearing the Blue Scholar name, so good for them.
Sorry, I don't have a lot of respect for CMJ after being an music director. Big ol' whore house they are.