• 10 years
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  • mounties
  • Metric Slide
  • Cold War Kids
  • MM Slide
  • CC Slide
  • EG slide
  • OBS Scarecrows slide
  • Metallica DVD Slide
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  • Sarah Brightman Slide
  • zolo slide
  • Carmen and Camille
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Frontside Clients Among Juno Award Winners

We’re proud to announce that four Frontside clients took home Juno Awards last night!

BREAKTHROUGH GROUP OF THE YEAR (SPONSORED BY FACTOR AND RADIO STARMAKER FUND)
Monster Truck

ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR (SPONSORED BY LONG & MCQUADE)
Metric – “Synthetica”

ROOTS & TRADITIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: GROUP
Elliott BROOD – “Days Into Years”

JACK RICHARDSON PRODUCER OF THE YEAR (SPONSORED BY SLAIGHT MUSIC)
James Shaw of Metric – “Youth Without Youth”, “Breathing Underwater” SYNTHETICA – Metric

Congratulations to all the artists and thanks so much to all at radio for their ongoing support!

THINK TANK: Market Analysis: Winnipeg

As part of our ongoing series of market explorations, this month we delve into the city that gave the world Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings, is home to the Royal Canadian Mint, and was crowned the “Slurpee Consumption Capital of the World” in 2012 for the 13th year-in-a-row (thanks to 188,833 Slurpees being sold every month at each 7-11 store).

As the eighth-largest radio market in the country, listeners in Winnipeg have 24 stations to choose from, including a surprisingly large number of community, campus and non-English language options.  For the commercial stations, there’s some serious money to be had – according to the CRTC’s 2011 Statistical and Financial Summaries report, the Winnipeg radio market was valued at $41.71-million, making each ratings point theoretically worth something in the neighbourhood of $400K. [Read more...]

Frontside Celebrates 10 Years at CMW

Thanks so much to everyone who came out to our ten year anniversary party, held during CMW at the Irish Embassy in Toronto.  The house was packed and we had a great time! We’re looking forward to many more years of working with all of you. Click the thumbnails below to check out some of the great photos from the party on our Facebook page!

 

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THINK TANK: What Does “Recurrent” Mean?

Well, the Merriam-Webster definition is “running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course,” but in this instance we’re wondering more in terms of what it means when your song goes “recurrent” at radio.

Let’s start from the beginning, with a record being serviced to radio. If a station likes it, they then add it to one of their “current” rotation categories, and if enough stations add that particular song, the combined airplay will cause it to debut and then work its way up the airplay charts, such as those found on Mediabase.

The songs that make up a station’s “current” rotation will fit into various labeled categories: “light”, “medium”, “heavy” or “power”, all of which signify the relative amount of exposure a song will get on the station. But all of those songs, in all of those categories, are considered “current”.

Over the following weeks, as more and more stations “add” the record (or increase their rotations), the song flies up the charts, amassing higher and higher spin-counts and attaining higher and higher chart positions (which is actually defined as lower and lower: Top-10, Top-5, etc) on the way to #1. But at a certain point however, a song will reach its peak and start to decline back down the chart. [Read more...]

Canadian Music Fest Interviews Frontside Managing Partner Geoff Goddard

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Just in time for our tenth anniversary party next week at CMW, Canadian Music Fest’s blog sat down for a chat with Frontside Managing Partner Geoff Goddard about our history, some of our favorite campaigns, and the changing landscape of the music industry since 2003. Check it out here!

Mediabase Panel Changes

Effective with the airplay week of March 10-16, 2013, the following changes will be made to the Mediabase panels. These changes will be reflected in the chart on Sunday, March 17. New stations, updated audience, and Country weights will be posted by Saturday, March 16.

CANADA-TOP 40
DROP CKMF/Montreal, QC             Moves To Canada-Hot AC

CANADA-MAIN AC
ADD  CFOM/Quebec City, QC
ADD  CJMK/Saskatoon, SK

CANADA-HOT AC
ADD  CKNG/Edmonton, AB
ADD  CKMF/Montreal, QC             Moves From Canada-Top 40

CANADA-ACTIVE ROCK
ADD  CJMO/Moncton, NB
ADD  CHOM/Montreal, QC
ADD  CJYC/Saint John, NB
DROP CJAY/Calgary, AB
DROP CJDJ/Saskatoon, SK
DROP CKWF/Peterborough, ON

CANADA-ALTERNATIVE ROCK
ADD  CFTX/Ottawa, ON