Today's topic, class, is how to promote music in Japan and keep the Japanese music biz afloat. Are you ready? Then I'll begin.
Now, those of you above a certain age will recall with fondness the transistor radio. Remember the sense of freedom it gave you when you were a teenager, eager to break the familial bonds and establish your own independent identity?
That was then and this is . . . oh yeah, it's 2001, and radios aren't exactly the hottest consumer item around. Not that the technology itself is outmoded. But in Japan, at least, there's not a hell of a lot of great music to be heard on the radio, with the exception, of course, of the many fine programs on InterFM, including my own "Beyond the Charts" weekly noisefest.