Music rotation

Music rotation


Music rotation is a practice under the jurisdiction of the music director at a radio station. Generally occurring either a once a week or on all weekdays, the oldest music (generally sorted by genre) is replaced with newer music a DJ has picked out of the new bin to review. Station DJs will review an album and write in a level of desired rotation (generally Light, Medium, Heavy) at which point the music director will then decide whether or not that CD is put into rotation or simply added to the station's library. Labels hire firms to call college radio stations and make sure their CDs are put into rotation, or at least reviewed, since an album put directly into the library will rarely be played, which leads to questions raised by commercialism for many stations.

See also Spin (radio).


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Music of Final Fantasy XIII — Music of Final Fantasy Final Fantasy I and II Final Fantasy III Final Fantasy IV Final Fantasy V Final Fantasy VI Final Fantasy VII series Final Fantasy VIII Final Fantasy IX Final Fantasy X Final Fantasy X 2 Final Fantasy XI …   Wikipedia

  • Music Week — est une revue professionnelle pour l industrie du disque du Royaume Uni. Créée en 1959, elle se nommait alors Record Retailer et fut renommée en Music Week le 18 mars 1972. Le 17 janvier 1981, le titre changea encore, pour coller à l importance… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Music without sound — can refer to music that falls outside the range of human hearing (typically 20 Hz–20 kHz) or to compositions, such as visual music, that are analogous to or suggestive of conventional music but in media other than sound, such as color, shape …   Wikipedia

  • Music scheduling system — Music scheduling systems are employed to sequence music at radio stations. Although these systems were originally implemented by manual index card methods, since the late 1970s they have exploited the efficiency and speed of digital computers.… …   Wikipedia

  • Music Television — Music Television,   Abkürzung MTV [englisch/amerikanisch, mju:zɪk telɪ vɪdʒn], kommerzieller Kabelfernsehkanal, der am 1. August 1981 in New York seinen Betrieb aufnahm und 24 Stunden rund um die Uhr nur Musikvideos ausstrahlt, unterbrochen… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Rotation (disambiguation) — The term rotation can be used in several ways and includes various topics. Generally, it is used to denote (in 3D) the rotation of movement of a rigid body in such a way that any given point of that body remains at a constant distance from some… …   Wikipedia

  • Music of Madagascar — Malagasy musicians playing valiha and acoustic guitar The highly diverse and distinctive music of Madagascar has been shaped by the musical traditions of Southeast Asia, Africa, Arabia, England, France and the United States as successive waves of …   Wikipedia

  • Music of the United Kingdom (1980s) — This article is about British popular music of the 1980s. For Classical music, see Classical music of the United Kingdom. 1980s in music in the UK Number one singles Number one albums Best selling singles Best selling albums Summaries and charts… …   Wikipedia

  • music and dance, Oceanic — Introduction       the music and dance traditions of the indigenous people of Oceania, in particular of Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, New Zealand, and Australia. Music and dance in Polynesia and Micronesia are audible and visual extensions of …   Universalium

  • Music Box (Mariah Carey album) — Music Box …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”