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Originally Posted by timothy  Mainly just interested in figuring out what determines what we get shoved down our throat's. |
Well in the the old days, the A&R folks would get excited about something using their intuition and want to push it to see how far it could go.
That belief and excitement would be infectious and spread to the execs, who would stand behind the product more...
Sometimes it wouldn't work, but much of the time it would because by the time it actually became a hit, there had been a great many people who believed it would be already.
Nowadays, an A&R guy would probably be fired for using his intuition without permission..
It's all business driven now. Hits are most likely determined by publishing arrangements, considering that the increasingly irrelevant labels can't seem to sell any records.