Airplay Monitor Debuts HitPredictor Monday E-Mail and Chart Enhancements.Entertainment Editors/Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 2003 HitPredictor, the influential new feature from Airplay air·play n. The broadcasting of an audio or audiovisual recording on the air over radio or television. airplay Noun the broadcast performances of a record on radio Monitor that gives the industry an early look at the hits, is now in programmers' hands even sooner, thanks to the launch of Airplay Monitor's HitPredictor Monday E-mail. The e-mail, which uses Internet-based research from Promosquad to identify new songs with top 10 research potential, was sent to programmers This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists and music executives today. In addition to spotlighting potential top 10 hits at the mainstream top 40, rhythmic rhyth·mic also rhyth·mi·cal adj. Of, relating to, or having rhythm; recurring with measured regularity. rhyth  mi·cal·ly adv. top 40, modern rock, and adult top 40 radio formats,
the Airplay Monitor HitPredictor Monday E-mail also contains editorial
analysis from Airplay Monitor Editor in Chief Sean Ross Ross , Sir Ronald 1857-1932.British physician. He won a 1902 Nobel Prize for proving that malaria is transmitted to humans by the bite of the mosquito. that goes beyond the numbers and help identify secret weapon records, and spotlights on-line testing events at hitpredictor.com. "Since its inception, Airplay Monitor has been about bringing actionable Giving sufficient legal grounds for a lawsuit; giving rise to a Cause of Action. An act, event, or occurrence is said to be actionable when there are legal grounds for basing a lawsuit on it. information to the programming community," says Ross. "The Airplay Monitor HitPredictor Monday E-mail is just our first effort to bring that information to readers even sooner, giving them information on the songs that are impacting at radio this week." Coinciding co·in·cide intr.v. co·in·cid·ed, co·in·cid·ing, co·in·cides 1. To occupy the same relative position or the same area in space. 2. To happen at the same time or during the same period. 3. with the launch of the HitPredictor Monday E-mail is the introduction of a new feature, the HitPredictor star designation Designations of stars (and other celestial bodies) are done by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Many of the star names in use today were inherited from the time before the IAU existed. , which will appear in Airplay Monitor's chart pages identifying those songs that have qualified as a potential top 10 record. The HitPredictor star debuts in the July 18 issue of Airplay Monitor. HitPredictor's data will expand to include other radio formats, and sister publication Billboard magazine soon will be incorporating HitPredictor data into its chart information. The HitPredictor Monday E-mail will be distributed free to all Monitor reporting stations. To sign up for a free subscription, please send request to jmatteuzzi@airplaymonitor.com. Promosquad: Led by industry veterans Guy Zapoleon and Rick Bisceglia, Promosquad uses the latest in market research techniques to predict the success of new music releases. Airplay Monitor: Airplay Monitor publishes the most trusted music charts and revolutionized the radio industry by helping programmers find the real hits. Airplay Monitor is a unit of VNU VNU Volontaires des Nations Unies (French) VNU Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeversbedrijven (Dutch) VNU Virtual Network User Business Media, a worldwide media company owned by VNU, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Netherlands-based VNU, an international publishing company. HitPredictor Methodology: Songs are blind tested online by Promosquad using multiple listens and a nationwide sample of carefully profiled music consumers. Songs are rated on a 1-5 scale; final results are based on weighted positives. Songs with a score of 65 or more are judged to have top 10 callout potential, although that benchmark number can fluctuate depending on the strength of available music. New Releases are songs that have been recently serviced to or impacted at their respective formats, Recently Tested songs are the five songs tested during the past month with the highest score. |
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