US Radio stations start to suffer from the Internet!

NEW YORK (Top40-Charts.com) - Many artists are banned from US radio stations but they find a new way to communicate with their audience: INTERNET!

Most of them join a growing list of recording artists releasing protest songs directly to the internet to bypass a cautious radio market. US radio stations have been negative about playing anti-war artists.

Earlier this month, country music superstars the Dixie Chicks were hit by a nearly 30% drop in airplay on US country music stations after criticising President Bush's war plans in Iraq.

But now the radio stations seems to loose control. Artists goes DIRECTLY to a GLOBAL audience (and not only US, UK or Germany). Many of the radio managing directors watch the market leaving under their feet!

REM, the Beastie Boys, John Mellencamp and former Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha have all released anti-war songs via the internet in recent weeks.

In the UK, ex-Clash guitarist Mick Jones has also made an anti-war song - the first track he has recorded in ten years. He teamed up with former Generation X and Sigue Sigue Sputnik member Tony James for the song "Why Do Men Fight?"

Yesterday another anti-war song got on the internet - Lenny Kravitz features Palestinian musician Simon Shaheen on strings and Lebanese artist Jamey Hadded on percussion.

Also the hard rock group System of a Down released an anti-war video.

All these aboving artists drop in airplay but now they take their global revenge: while radio stations stay stucked in their ban lists, artists open thier web sites. This 'ban policy' of radio stations massively moves the audience/consumers directly to something new and absolutely free! (Mp3.com is a US site with no bans at all - why don't radios take it as an example?).
We wonder if radios understand who is losing the battle of market...