From: owner-music-issues-digest@smoe.org (music-issues-digest) To: music-issues-digest@smoe.org Subject: music-issues-digest V1 #4 Reply-To: music-issues@smoe.org Sender: owner-music-issues-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-music-issues-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk music-issues-digest Sunday, September 6 1998 Volume 01 : Number 004 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MAPL? [Paul Schreiber ] Re: MAPL? ["Adam D." ] Radio Stations and AAA: Why? [00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 13:22:50 -0400 From: Paul Schreiber Subject: MAPL? I've noticed on several CDs that there's a small circular symbol, divided into four sections, with the letters M, A, P, L in them. Sometimes, all of them are white text on black; other times, one or more of the sections are reversed. Finally, on a couple of the symbols, the "circle" has been extended to become a square on onre or more corners. Can somebody explain to me what all of this means? thanks, Paul shad 96c / 3A CS / mac activist / eda / fumbler fan of / montreal canadiens / jewel / sophie b. hawkins / sarah slean / / x-files / buffy / dawson's creek / bills / 49ers / t h i n k d i f f e r e n t. "I'd rather see the world from another angle." -- Jewel ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 12:49:26 -0700 From: "Adam D." Subject: Re: MAPL? Hey there, >I've noticed on several CDs that there's a small circular symbol, divided >into four sections, with the letters M, A, P, L in them. Sometimes, all >of them are white text on black; other times, one or more of the sections >are reversed. Finally, on a couple of the symbols, the "circle" has been >extended to become a square on onre or more corners. > >Can somebody explain to me what all of this means? Sure. The shape is irrelevant, for one thing. What you are looking at there is what is called the "Maple" or "CanCon" or just "Canadian Content" emblem which was instituted by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) sometime back in the mid to late 70's to indicate how much of an album or song was of Canadian origin. There are four elements that can be filled in, and in order to qualify for "CanCon Standards" at radio, at least half of every song must be CanCon. Probably not making any sense yet am I? I'll break down the four elements: M = Music (the actual music) A = Artist (the artist performing the music) P = Producer (the producer of the work) L = Lyrics (strictly the words of the song) Now: CanCon standards were also introduced in the 70's due to overwhelming lack of Canadian music being played on the radio at the time. So in Canada, the CRTC (Canadian Radio Telvision And Telecommunications Commission) enforced a broad rule stating that at least 30% of all music played on radio 30% of all TV shows played on TV **had** to be at least 50% Canadian Content. Made sense then. These days I think (personally) it's debatable whether that's a useful or even a necessary thing. And in fact it just got bumped up to 45%. :/ SO yeah. If you see a song where the M and the P are filled in and the other two are not, that means that the music and the producer were of Canadian origin. Hope I didn't confuse that too much. There's even more to it than that but those are the guts of the issue. Hope that helps, ad - -- /'''              adam@nettwerk.com                   Adam Drake c ..                                        Senior Web Developer     \           http://www.nettweb.com      Nettwerk Productions    - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 23:07:46 -0500 (EST) From: 00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu Subject: Radio Stations and AAA: Why? Hi everyone, Sorry this list has been sort of slow getting started so far, but I'm glad people are posting now. When I started this list I initially thought it'd be cool to have a place to discuss and debate issues surrounding the music industry in a forum where people didn't attack one other when they disagree (like it is on USENET :/) but talked about the issues, etc. So, I'm interested to hear views about music and the issues that surround the industry, past-present-future. I've been curious about radio formats. I don't know all that much about radio stations, except that I dispise the radio stations around here--I'm sure they're everywhere--they play the same "top 20" singles weekly, they claim they have "today's best music," I'm sure we've all heard a radio station like this. In Indiana it's basically all that exists with the exception of a really cool college station out of Bloomington (WTTS), and an alternative-ish station that's just okay. I guess I'm wondering where/when these formats (like AAA) were established and what their specific purpose is. I can't understand excluding a lot of *really good* music that's being made today ("good" is subjective, I know) for the purposes of playing songs like "Everybody" by the Backstreet Boys, or the Mariah-Dion-LeAnn songs that rotate heavily each day, or even the same old "popular" songs from the early 90's that I've heard lately--is this what's popular because it's all that's available or is this really what the public wants to hear? I'm curious to hear opinions about the state of radio today and if anything is or will be done to change the formats that currently exist? Thanks for your thoughts, hope this makes sense:) jessica n. weiser - http://adam.nettfriends.com/Jess "they'll be sorry when the star buries the girl, so help me vanish, help me get myself outta here" - e. gryner ------------------------------ End of music-issues-digest V1 #4 ********************************