CBC Radio 3, The Bucky Awards, Feist
CBC Radio 3 handed out their Bucky Awards yesterday. Full stream of the Podcast can be found here. This is one of the Top streamed music programs on the Internet.
CBC Radio 3 has a broad understanding and grasp of the music scene in Canada. Their Indie reach and influence makes it a true promoter and advocate of music culture in our cities and towns.
Back to the Bucky’s. I love how the winner of each award is most often reached on the phone to get their reactions – winning categories like Best Lyrics, Best Sweatin’ to the Indies, and the last award of the cast, Song Most Likely to be a Future Classic. The congratulatory calls to the bands before 10am are often some good bits.
Song Most Likely to be a Future Classic: Feist: ‘1234′
Great song and a big steeping stone for Broken Social Scene global exposure. In an exciting time for Canadian music, this is one of the bands that will help define what we listen to in the years ahead.1234 is a song that almost didn’t make the final album cut.
Prior to the Apple iPod Nano commercial airing, The Reminder was selling at approximately 6,000 copies per week, and “1234″ at 2,000 downloads per week. Following the commercial, the song passed 73,000 total downloads and reached No. 7 on Hot Digital Songs and No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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