TOP 20 Songs on Acoustic Pie
Based on listeners' online voting!

July 2008

Artist ~ Song ~ Album
(Links to all artists' web sites are found on the Artists page)

1. Tracy Chapman ~ Baby Can I Hold You ~ Hear Music XM Radio Sessions Vol 1
2. Tom Kimmel ~ Pages ~ Light of Day
3. Mark Erelli ~ Evening's Curtain ~ Hope & Other Casualties
4. Still on the Hill ~ Words On Birds ~ Chaos & Calm
5. Steven Ybarra ~ The Perfect Song ~ Love Love Love
6. Ellis ~ The Great Unknown ~ Undefended Heart
7. Brenda Panneton ~ Winter Jacket ~ An Emotional Woman
8. Chris Pureka ~ Compass Rose ~ Dryland
9. Tom Kimmel ~ That's What I Love About Rain ~ Short Stories
10. Steve Poltz ~ 10 Chances ~ Chinese Vacation
11. Krista Detor ~ Aurora Means Dawn ~ Wilderness
12. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova ~ If You Want Me ~ Once (Collector's Edition)
13. Chris Pureka ~ 3 a.m. ~ Driving North
14. Ben Bedford ~ Lincoln's Man ~ Lincoln's Man
15. Arlon Bennett ~ Be the Change ~ Summer's Voice
16. Antje Duvekot ~ South ~ Big Dream Boulevard
17. Sarah Noni Metzner ~ Little Bird ~ Daybreak Mourning
18. Sara Hickman ~ To a Maddening Ghost ~ Motherlode
19. Eliza Gilkyson ~ Rose of Sharon ~ Your Town Tonight
20. Chuck E. Costa ~ When the City Comes ~ Where the Songs Come From

A government board has proclaimed a huge increase in royalty rates that would force many broadcasts such as Acoustic Pie off the air. Internet radio has always paid higher rates of royalty than any other radio medium. Because I love music and musicians, I'm proud of that. I don't understand why we're now being asked to pay even higher increases, making our fees even more out-of-line with satellite and broadcast radio.

We can't support the music we love if we're not broadcasting.

Because of the public outcry by musicians and listeners (thanks, everybody!), the collection agency agreed on July 13, 2007 to temporarily not enforce the impossibly high rates and negotiate with webcasters individually. This is a troubling compromise and not a permanent solution.

Our best hope is the Internet Radio Equality Act (IREA) which would set the increases to the same new rates paid by satellite radio. As of May 2008, this act is being considered for legislation by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.

Any and all developments on this problem are tracked at the Save Net Radio website. And I'll keep you posted here, too!

~Kelley
Updated May 20, 2008