Posted by Fred Clemens on September 08, 2008 at 19:39:49:
In Reply to: A thought about yearly Top 100 surveys posted by Jim Surace on September 08, 2008 at 12:08:03:
>>In my opinion, does it really matter anymore?<<
Does WHAT really matter anymore, ...your opinion or the surveys??
If it's the surveys, they don't really matter anymore. Like you said:
>>...That was then, this is now.<<
Yes this IS 2008. And what significance would it really have to re-guage OLD songs when they've already been overdone already with the number assignments?
Where would you draw the line? Would songs that NEVER made the OLDER Charts be eligible, or just the ones that had numerical values before?
Most songs considered for airplay today have a foundation for Charting successfully MANY years ago, and those numbers were granted for only the then-present competition. As much as those values are already taken out of context, you'ld only be re-creating credibility issues all over again. Would younger Voters only be allowed to choose from songs we Older Folks hang on to memories of? If that's the case, then you're not being very fair to them, the songs OR the Younger Voters.
By limiting the Era's, you're even less defining the Music. Not only are you not basing the Music on it's own merit, but instead on dated Chart assignments. You're taking it a step further by having ony certain Years allowed. Again, where's the fairness in that with regard to the Music?
MOST of the Oldies Music that is played on Radio and elsewhere is done so based solely on Nostalgic Value, where specific memories are associated with the songs, not the songs themselves. Older songs yield Older Demos (for the most part), just as newer songs yield Younger Demos. That's the way they're SOLD, and mostly to appeal to what the Advertiser's want.
Any survey you could possibly conduct will be biased in at least one way or another, and be therefore uncredible all over again. (...or is that Incredible?)