In recent years, major labels, much like the movie industry, have depended increasingly on first-week sales to determine whether a release will be a hit.
The map labels much of this area as forest, but that is simply medieval nomenclature, a time when the word indicated a deer-hunting ground rather than trees.
In the fifties, the music industry was dominated by a few giant labels, much as it is today; because of payola (and payola-takers, like Alan Freed), the smaller labels that revolutionized the industry — including Atlantic, Chess, and King Records — were able to get their music on the air.
Frankly, in the case of the music industry where mostly the people who were most fundamentally disrupted were music exec and record labels, much more troubling is when we disrupt education or other things that are bedrocks of having a functioning society.
NAP subjects tend to confuse notes having the same vowel in their labels much more frequently than notes having different vowels in their labels, that is, they tend to make more frequently the type of error here referred to as SAME error compared to DIFFERENT error.
Alternatively, one could think of a trial risk classification system, where the potential risks of a trial are communicated with uniform labels, much like energy labels, to make them more transparent for patients.
