Jon Crosby Quotes

Now that I'm with RCA, they were able to get radio on board, and it's just really awesome to see their support and 'What Ifs' going to No. 1.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

Recently, I've been working on anew album of material, which should be out in the new Millennium. I'm not sure which song will be put out as a single, but I'm still hoping to get another record in the charts.

Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were making with them and released it independently in the United States had a number one Independent debut in the United States.

I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

A few years ago, one of our singles got beaten out by Better Than Ezra. The label could only have one band at a time being taken to the right people at radio, and they opted for Better Than Ezra instead of us. Who knows.

With pop songs, they usually have a three-month roll out.

Usually albums are frontloaded with singles.

I figured the songs wouldn't make much of a splash. I didn't think 'Take Me To Church' would play on the radio or get in the charts, and I didn't think about dealing with a global audience.

I was actually really stunned that my label suggested 'Door' as the single to lead with, as it's such a long and winding song.

Once we put 'So Anxious' out, it was a wrap.

'Dance' got on WBLS and over 25 urban AC stations. I never had a record on urban AC and gospel stations before.

In hindsight, I feel like I made the right decision to choose production that would get played on black radio.

I can work my butt off and create an album that's wonderful, but if it's never played and never given the outlet, it won't succeed.

It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

American Idols that come off the show and don't have a hit song - that makes it tough. If you come off the show and the song isn't big, and it takes a couple months to get your single out there - that time could be damaging.

Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.

Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'

It's so hard to pick a 'single.' I always want it to be whatever my favorite tune is, but often the record company and the person whose job it is to take it to radio have different ideas.

I think when you put a new record out, everyone has a song or two that they feel people will be moved by so much that radio will be forced to play it.

I'm very new to the industry. I'm not on the Billboard 200 and that is alarming to me. But when I sat down with my management they said it's not a big deal and that it happens all the time.