Christian Radio & Retail Weekly Taps Mediaguide for Weekly Music Spin Charts

NEW YORK, NY (Mediaguide) - Mediaguide, the leading provider of digital fingerprinting technology, and Christian Radio & Retail Weekly, the comprehensive source for news in adult contemporary, Christian and inspirational music genres, have partnered to provide CRW's readers more depth and information on airplay of their favorite artists. Since March, Mediaguide has been supplying CRW with weekly Top 30 airplay charts for the adult contemporary, Christian, mainstream and college genres.

For each genre, Mediaguide's proprietary digital fingerprinting software identifies songs that are played across the country from its national base of over 2,500 radio stations. The weekly charts display the Top 30 artists and songs, including their current and past week's rank, the number of times the song has played in a particular week, and the number of consecutive weeks the artist's song has made the chart.

"At Mediaguide, we are dedicated to providing the most accurate and comprehensive music information anywhere," said Paul Wright, vice president business development of Mediaguide. "CRW shares that belief and we are proud to have our Christian radio data play a key role in CRW's service to the greater Christian music community."

"Mediaguide's unparalleled monitoring capabilities, reach and depth of information across diverse music genres gives us the ability to share the most comprehensive and timely airplay data available to our readers," says Dave Koch, Publisher/Editor at CRW. "We're excited to partner with Mediaguide and incorporate their data into our weekly content."

The Mediaguide charts will appear in each weekly edition of CRW, which goes out to a readership comprised of the radio industry, record labels and the Nashville music community.