Monday, December 15, 2014

Christmas Music is Data Driven

The folks at the data-heavy 538.com have discovered just how data driven radio formats are. Specifically, the new all-Christmas formats that pop up everywhere this time of year.

More details are here.

Maybe I'm getting a little Scroogy in my old age, but I'm tired of all of them. Every single Christmas song. And I used to love most of them. We are in desperate need of a few new Christmas classics. You can only re-arrange the same twenty songs so many ways before you hit a breaking point. Maybe you're not there yet, but we're pushing 70 years on some of these tunes.

Then again, as I said before, maybe I'm just getting a little Scroogy in my old age.