John Mellencamp

Louis and where rock took place, all of a sudden, you know, where I got played all the time, the points didn't amount to shit.

But what did?

Urban stations.

Urban stations played what?

Rap.

So, do you remember when all of a sudden rap music took over?

It wasn't because these guys were so great, and I'm not saying they were bad, I'm just saying that it was because of SoundScan, and my friend Tim knew this was going to happen.

As soon as I signed this deal with SoundScan, and there was a magazine called Radio and Records at the time, who was rivaling Billboard.

And if Tim hadn't have bought SoundScan, Radio and Records would have bought them, which would have made them the premier label.

because they were the most modern.

So SoundScan changed everything.

So I'm sure that you remember that there was a time when you knew every song that was number one.

Then all of a sudden you woke up one day and you didn't know, how does this song become number one?

But the way that it was before SoundScan, each song had to work its way up the charts.

So if you had, let's say, 20 plays, I'm just throwing out low numbers, but if you had 20 plays, that got added to the 20 plays that you got the next week.

So now you have 40 plays.

So you might move up from 36 to 31.

But Joe Rogan in Boston was hearing the fucking songs as they move up.

Oh, I heard this new song.

You talk to your friend.