So it’s Valentine’s day. No! I’m stuck in front of the computer and fixing things for the release of the new radio station where I’m now station manger. Suddenly Bryan Adams is playing “Heaven”. Here it is Valentine’s day! And

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We got a mail to our festival the other day. First with the totally wrong name on the festival. Sure, that can happen in all your cut and paste. Then the letter continues by asking questions that obvious is on

Continue ReadingThis is the reason why you don’t get an answer.

I just got an mail from a band that has played one of the bigger showcase festivals in Europe. Before playing at that festival it was a mark that this artist was going somewhere. I meet the booker from that

Continue ReadingA festival needs curation! Bigger is not better!

If you missed it on Cashbox Radio our special show around MENT festival. Here you have the pod/playlist version both on Spotify and Youtube, I would recommend Youtube since that contains all songs and you can see all the lovely

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Last week Swedish radio took off their Digilist, the top list over most streamed songs. This after a couple of weeks with rumors around cheating. Then an artist did a experiment and showed in a big newspaper how easy it

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Well the tech guys want us to believe that the algorithm is that magic that it actually can predict the future in the big data. Maybe in a George Orwell future, it can, but I really don’t want to live

Continue ReadingThe algorithm can’t predict the future!

I’m utterly tired of explaining to idiots that you have millions of streams doesn’t make you a star, or even successful. In the old days, the counting of sales was a good measurement of how popular you were. That is

Continue ReadingWe need a new top chart!

Genre is not needed, haven’t we got further than that! The line is from a new artist that was in the pre-selection of the Idol 2015 in Sweden. And now she is doing a comeback with a new totally unknown

Continue ReadingGenre is not needed, haven’t we got further then that!

I just read an article around social media on a business site. Really interesting reading. It’s in Swedish and you need to subscribe to read it so no point to link it here. Still, it really got my attention because

Continue ReadingSocial media is not the right way to go!

You can’t force people to listen to your music! The worst thing is when I’m forced to listen to shows or even worse forced to sit down and listen to some songs of a band. I have to be in

Continue ReadingDon’t force me to listen to your songs!