promosquad HitPredictor Conducts Dixie Chicks/Country Radio Listener Poll and Finds Majority of Country Radio Listeners Agree: 'Play The Chicks!'

promosquad HitPredictor Conducts Dixie Chicks/Country Radio Listener Poll and Finds Majority of Country Radio Listeners Agree: 'Play The Chicks!'

NEW YORK, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The nation's #1 predictive online music research company promosquad HitPredictor has instant access to tens of thousands of real-life radio listeners/music consumers -- and we are always finding out what's on their mind. We recently asked a nationwide sample of Country Music Radio Listeners the following ...

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"Many Country Radio stations decided not to play the Dixie Chicks' single "Not Ready to Make Nice". The reason was the radio stations claimed you, the Country Music listeners, did not want to hear them. Do you agree or disagree?"

The results were fascinating, with a majority 62% of Country Radio Listeners across the nation disagreeing with Radio Programmers' assumptive decision not to play the Dixie Chicks, and the remaining 38% in favor of Country Radio's right to decide what not to play on their behalves.

Comments from Country Radio Listeners ranged from disappointment in radio: "Radio can't know what every single listener wants to hear ... that's total BS!", to support: "It's their right to make political comments that I'm not interested in hearing. It's the radio stations right to not play them. This is America! Maybe the Chicks should stick to music, not political commentaries." While many of the comments from listeners that disagreed with Country Radio negatively addressed the issue of programmers making decisions for them, the comments from listeners that agreed with radio were mostly anti Dixie Chicks in general.

Interestingly enough, promosquad HitPredictor also conducted pre-release research on the single "Not Ready To Make Nice" in which it scored extremely well, showing solid "Hit Potential" according to Country Radio Listeners hearing it for the very first time before it was given to radio stations across the country ... and before the single and group again became a national topic of interest.

About promosquad HitPredictor:

Lead by music industry veterans Rick Bisceglia, Guy Zapoleon, and Doug Ford, promosquad HitPredictor over the past 5 years has become the undisputed #1 brand of predictive music research in the nation, with charts featured in Billboard magazine, the Billboard Radio Monitor, and Entertainment Weekly. HitPredictor performs online predictive music research at their websites with a huge nationwide database of music fans who rate songs, with results determining their "Hit" potential before they are released to the radio and retail. Many major and independent record companies, artists, and artist managers utilize promosquad HitPredictor's online music research as a regular and essential part of their rollout of new music. In fact, many of today's Top 10 charting songs were identified by record labels and radio programmers as a result of this company's direction.

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CONTACT: Doug Ford of promosquad HitPredictor, +1-518-792-8900,
hitpredictor@promosquad.com

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