Red Mosquito

Heard it last night driving back from the casino at 2 am.
It still sounds great on the radio.

And on Youtube.

Did a quick search and MYM is currently #7 on something called the "Rock Airplay" charts on Billboard. The peak was #6.

For context, their competition on said chart is: Imagine Dragons, Capital Cities, Lorde, The Neighborhood, Fitz & the Tantrums, Of Monsters and Men.

My how the "rock" landscape has changed.

Rock airplay is just audience size. MYM has the seventh largest potential audience among charting rock songs.

This is part of why I focus on inner-industry sources rather than Billboard...big B divides information in misleading ways.

Beaten into number 2 on billboard by the new and improved stone temple pilots.

Heard it 3 times over the past 3 days. Noon, around 6 and at 2 am. Pretty good based on how little The past few singles were played around here.

It will depend on what kind of tail it carries. Right now it has fewer than half the spins WWS managed in its chart life and has never approached the kind of audience size it, Fixer, or JB achieved. To be losing spins and audience on 3 out of 4 formats already may be a bad sign, unless it can hold the kind of slow-decline jog Fixer and JB had. Both those singles had much stronger peaks.

Already better than Life Wasted or Amongst, this is still on course to be the lowest performing lead single since I Am Mine. And while it has been mentioned that that's just one metric of determining success, radio remains a surprisingly effective barometer for predicting downloads, media attention, and streaming media reception.

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Monkey_Driven wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:I havent heard it on the radio, but the rock stations here aren't really doing the hard rock thing anymore. Its all Imagine Dragons and folky duets.

Yup, haven't heard it here once since it was released.

I've heard it on the radio once but I rarely listen to any music stations anymore.

I hear it on the radio all the time.

I heard it on 92.9 when I was flipping through my presets the other day. I'm usually either listening to WBUR or Sports Hub.

they play it alot, BRU plays it alot, I've heard it on AAF too.

I hate AAF so much. They haven't been good since Opie & Anthony left.

Yeah, me too. BRU is far and away my favorite station now.

McParadigm wrote:It will depend on what kind of tail it carries. Right now it has fewer than half the spins WWS managed in its chart life and has never approached the kind of audience size it, Fixer, or JB achieved. To be losing spins and audience on 3 out of 4 formats already may be a bad sign, unless it can hold the kind of slow-decline jog Fixer and JB had. Both those singles had much stronger peaks.

Already better than Life Wasted or Amongst, this is still on course to be the lowest performing lead single since I Am Mine. And while it has been mentioned that that's just one metric of determining success, radio remains a surprisingly effective barometer for predicting downloads, media attention, and streaming media reception.

MYM certainly doesn't seem to have the staying power of Fixer and JB in the culture. I know that's nebulous, but you can usually get a feel for how a song is doing based on a variety of metrics, anecdotal and otherwise.

Then again, it really isn't that type of song anyway. I think that's purposeful - they wanted to come out with something a little more shocking and less poppy than the last time around. A palate cleanser of sorts.

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Monkey_Driven wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:I havent heard it on the radio, but the rock stations here aren't really doing the hard rock thing anymore. Its all Imagine Dragons and folky duets.

Yup, haven't heard it here once since it was released.

I've heard it on the radio once but I rarely listen to any music stations anymore.

I hear it on the radio all the time.

I heard it on 92.9 when I was flipping through my presets the other day. I'm usually either listening to WBUR or Sports Hub.

they play it alot, BRU plays it alot, I've heard it on AAF too.

I hate AAF so much. They haven't been good since Opie & Anthony left.

Yeah, me too. BRU is far and away my favorite station now.

When FNX went the way of the dodo after BCN I kind of gave up on rock radio. I've kind of turned into an NPR junkie.

cutuphalfdead wrote:

numbers wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

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cutuphalfdead wrote:

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cutuphalfdead wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:I havent heard it on the radio, but the rock stations here aren't really doing the hard rock thing anymore. Its all Imagine Dragons and folky duets.

Yup, haven't heard it here once since it was released.

I've heard it on the radio once but I rarely listen to any music stations anymore.

I hear it on the radio all the time.

I heard it on 92.9 when I was flipping through my presets the other day. I'm usually either listening to WBUR or Sports Hub.

they play it alot, BRU plays it alot, I've heard it on AAF too.

I hate AAF so much. They haven't been good since Opie & Anthony left.

Yeah, me too. BRU is far and away my favorite station now.

When FNX went the way of the dodo after BCN I kind of gave up on rock radio. I've kind of turned into an NPR junkie.

I miss BCN so much.

numbers wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

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cutuphalfdead wrote:

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cutuphalfdead wrote:

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cutuphalfdead wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:I havent heard it on the radio, but the rock stations here aren't really doing the hard rock thing anymore. Its all Imagine Dragons and folky duets.

Yup, haven't heard it here once since it was released.

I've heard it on the radio once but I rarely listen to any music stations anymore.

I hear it on the radio all the time.

I heard it on 92.9 when I was flipping through my presets the other day. I'm usually either listening to WBUR or Sports Hub.

they play it alot, BRU plays it alot, I've heard it on AAF too.

I hate AAF so much. They haven't been good since Opie & Anthony left.

Yeah, me too. BRU is far and away my favorite station now.

When FNX went the way of the dodo after BCN I kind of gave up on rock radio. I've kind of turned into an NPR junkie.

I miss BCN so much.

I used to call Hardy's show all the time.

McParadigm wrote:It will depend on what kind of tail it carries. Right now it has fewer than half the spins WWS managed in its chart life and has never approached the kind of audience size it, Fixer, or JB achieved. To be losing spins and audience on 3 out of 4 formats already may be a bad sign, unless it can hold the kind of slow-decline jog Fixer and JB had. Both those singles had much stronger peaks.

Already better than Life Wasted or Amongst, this is still on course to be the lowest performing lead single since I Am Mine. And while it has been mentioned that that's just one metric of determining success, radio remains a surprisingly effective barometer for predicting downloads, media attention, and streaming media reception.

I'm reading this as all good news, amirite?

harmless wrote:

McParadigm wrote:It will depend on what kind of tail it carries. Right now it has fewer than half the spins WWS managed in its chart life and has never approached the kind of audience size it, Fixer, or JB achieved. To be losing spins and audience on 3 out of 4 formats already may be a bad sign, unless it can hold the kind of slow-decline jog Fixer and JB had. Both those singles had much stronger peaks.

Already better than Life Wasted or Amongst, this is still on course to be the lowest performing lead single since I Am Mine. And while it has been mentioned that that's just one metric of determining success, radio remains a surprisingly effective barometer for predicting downloads, media attention, and streaming media reception.

I'm reading this as all good news, amirite?

It's basically mediocre news. But as I said, MYM is more of a statement than it is a single. If they wanted to put something out that has staying power at radio, they would have released Sirens (the way everyone talks about it). Which, of course, they still might do.

How it looks will be determined by what happens next.

If the album has other radio friendly, strongly written moments, then it'll look like they put out a Go-type opening single to give us something to listen to while we wait and to let the world know that, when Daughter shows up as the second single, it won't be because the album doesn't rawk hard yo.

There really is no sense in putting out your strongest single 3 months before the record drops, and it can help a band like them (that does not have a reputation for consistency) to put out something with balls early on in the promotion.

If the next single, or the album entire, is just sort of meh...then it'll just mean they shot their wad on what was supposed to be a dry run.

McParadigm wrote:How it looks will be determined by what happens next.

If the album has other radio friendly, strongly written moments, then it'll look like they put out a Go-type opening single to give us something to listen to while we wait and to let the world know that, when Daughter shows up as the second single, it won't be because the album doesn't rawk hard yo.

There really is no sense in putting out your strongest single 3 months before the record drops, and it can help a band like them (that does not have a reputation for consistency) to put out something with balls early on in the promotion.

If the next single, or the album entire, is just sort of meh...then it'll just mean they shot their wad on what was supposed to be a dry run.

Shot their Bolt*

MYM music video premiering tomorrow at 9 AM Pacific time.

Thats unexpected.

i hope it's blue screened!