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Originally Posted by jaydorn
That's actually my biggest beef with Nickelback, they are a marginally talented band with some "OK" songs. But they milked the cancon rules within an inch of it's life and got a huge payout as a result.
But having said that, I'll agree with your first assessment that "One could argue that Cancon on the radio has been a success" if you take Nickelback out of the equation, bands like Arcade Fire, The New Pornographers and heck anything played in CBC Radio 3 (internet I know) has really given us a great crop of homegrown artist, and yes cancon probably gave a lot of them a leg up when it came to radio play.
Regardless, the CRTC needs a major overhall, "preserving nationality" has in practice become "preserving monopolies" for Canadian tech companies (rogers, bell, I'm looking at you).
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CANCON has not helped Canadian indie bands at all on commercial radio. They continue to play the same stable of classic Canadian bands over and over. CBC 3 has a different mandate, and probably not a very big audience. The successful Canadian indie bands made it on their own merit.