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  • Will Country Radio Promotion Tours Ever Return to Their Pre-Pandemic Ways?

    4 monthes ago - By Billboard

    “Video killed the radio star,” The Buggles suggested at the dawn of the 1980s; now the COVID-19 bug might kill the radio promotion tour, which started that same decade.
    When asked in the Billboard Country Power Players issue what changes from the pandemic era may become permanent, Starstruck CEO Narvel Blackstock predicted, “A lot of meetings will become Zoom meetings, and things like radio tours will probably never come back.”
    Blackstock's position is shared - in whole or in part - by many interested parties from numerous areas of the business, including labels, artists, managers and...
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