What would be really amazing is a voice command to play specific artists.

This can be a disadvantage in terms of commercial success, as radio program directors are often hesitant to play independent artists.

Classic rock or oldies formats have been described as having the weakness of not playing new artists.

We provide a list of artists most played on BBC radio within the past seven days.

While the station would play mainstream rock artists, the announcers often focused on their deeper album cuts.

The automation allow listeners to be notified of favorite artist being played through tagging.

Pulse Global is a family of radio stations, exclusively playing new, unsigned, and emerging artists over the internet.

Top artists played in 2011 (artist name/number of plays):

The channel was wholly owned by Universal Music Group, but played artists from all labels.

WBER also presents local concerts for popular artists played on the station.