College Radio Recap. CMJ Issue 1392 Week 19

I am limited on time this week as I am headed down to Philadelphia for the AAA conference NonComm http://triplearadio.com/noncomm/ 

Actually one of my favorite conferences of the year as you get a lot of one on one time with people and its all in once place. 

But let us take a quick look at what happened at college radio this week. 

We have a new number one with Alabama Shakes taking the reigns from Courtney Barnett. What a run by her though!  Will we see a run similar with Alabama Shakes? This next week there looks to be no one close enough with last weeks top adds coming in at #11 and #14 so they seem to be at least 2 weeks away from contending. 

The crazy take away from this weeks chart is that every record in the top 7 has over half of the reporting stations charting it. In previous years having 50% of the charters meant you were in the running for #1. Now it might not even be enough to get into the top 5.  Also the difference between #20 and #10 is almost double. There are some huge gaps there. 

While it was not a blockbuster ADD week it had to of been somewhat fun/ frustrating to be one of the top four records going for adds.  In the end we have a 2 way tie and we could of had a 4 way tie! 

1	72	ICKY BLOSSOMS	Mask	Saddle Creek
2	72	HELIO SEQUENCE	The Helio Sequence	Sub Pop
3	69	ELVIS DEPRESSEDLY	New Alhambra	Run For Cover
4	68	JACCO GARDNER	Hypnophobia	Polyvinyl

Look at how close that is! 

I would of loved a four way tie.  

Thanks for reading. Next week will also be a brief recap as I am headed to Punk rock bowling! 

check it out here

http://punkrockbowling.com


I also forgot about birthdays this week!

Caroline from Mute and also http://www.broadist.com birthday is Today ( wed) so if you are in Philly you should buy her a shot.  Caroline was one of my MD's back in the day and also bought my Get up Kids records when I moved to San Francisco. She is a class act!

Tenni from AAM birthday is on XXXX(redacted)  she also helps to  run Medium Rotation https://www.facebook.com/mediumrotation  She was also one of my former MD's that loves attention so be sure to call her or text her.. I took out the day of her birthday so be sure to hit her up all week.