Added Quote by Jon Crosby

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…

— Alison Goldfrapp

The success of the first album was almost an anomaly, and it could remain a fantastic anomaly. It was not crafted for commercial success.…

— Christine and the Queens

You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars.

— Al Yankovic

I don't determine the singles. I believe the record company sends a bunch of CDs out to people that they trust in the business,…

— Flora Purim

Def Jam, they've shown nothing but love as far as supporting my records. We haven't missed yet, radio-wise, and every song that they've actually…

— Jeremih

Obviously, what happened from the 'Immortalized' record was we achieved a level of success that, to be perfectly honest, was unpredecented in our career.…

— David Draiman

Radio has changed, there was a little bit of difference around the country and now that is gone and everything is uniform. That is…

— Joan Jett

Most people didn't have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus…

— Todd Rundgren

I think the record industry has gotten to be more about labels wondering what the new single is rather than labels nurturing artists. It's…

— John Varvatos

It's so different now coming out as a new artist today than it was when I came out almost ten years ago. Now, it's…

— Avril Lavigne

We had huge success at first - really, really big. You could not turn on AM radio and not hear 'Every Time I Think…

— John Waite

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any…

— Huey Lewis