{"id":5963,"date":"2012-01-01T11:40:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T11:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=5963"},"modified":"2012-01-01T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T11:40:13","slug":"does-it-matter-how-accurate-the-musicians-to-watch-out-for-lists-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/does-it-matter-how-accurate-the-musicians-to-watch-out-for-lists-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Does it matter how accurate the &#8220;Musicians to Watch Out For&#8221; lists are?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC have noted their hits and misses from previous &#8220;Sound of the year&#8221; lists, and found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-15927590\">five \u00a0names they&#8217;ve predicted over the last nine years that are hits<\/a>. Who much of the success is because they got a kick of momentum by appearing on the list (Plan B?), and how much is down to how well they were marketed (the failure of Little Boots) isn&#8217;t discussed.<\/p>\n<p>You know what else isn&#8217;t really discussed? That most of the bands and artists featured on these lists are likely still making music, are making a living from their work, have a couple of thousand fans, and are still making great music.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just that they&#8217;re not all like Adele and making buckets of money for the major record companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC have noted their hits and misses from previous &#8220;Sound of the year&#8221; lists, and found five \u00a0names they&#8217;ve predicted over the last nine years that are hits. Who much of the success is because they got a kick of momentum by appearing on the list (Plan B?), and how much is down to how well they were marketed (the failure of Little Boots) isn&#8217;t discussed. You know what else isn&#8217;t really discussed? That most of the bands and artists featured on these lists are likely still making music, are making a living from their work, have a couple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[27,25],"tags":[3470,3472,225,3471,3468,3469],"class_list":["post-5963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-music","category-link-log","tag-adele","tag-little-boots","tag-music","tag-plan-b","tag-prediction","tag-what-happens-next","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1yb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}