{"id":3349,"date":"2007-01-11T10:54:17","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T09:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2007\/01\/11\/the-future-of-pop"},"modified":"2007-01-11T10:54:17","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T09:54:17","slug":"the-future-of-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2007\/01\/11\/the-future-of-pop","title":{"rendered":"The Future Of Pop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essex rock band <a href=\"http:\/\/myspace.com\/koopa\">Koopa<\/a> could become the first unsigned group <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/6248535.stm\">to land a UK top 40 hit<\/a> thanks to new chart rules.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bulk of Koopa&#8217;s followers are teenagers who are buying the single using a mobile phone rather than an online store, Mr Raymond believes. It costs \u00c2\u00a31.50 to send a text message and receive a code to download the song on a computer. &#8220;The average 16-year-old doesn&#8217;t have a credit card but they&#8217;ve got a mobile phone,&#8221; the manager explains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who needs a record deal anymore?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essex rock band Koopa could become the first unsigned group to land a UK top 40 hit thanks to new chart rules. The bulk of Koopa&#8217;s followers are teenagers who are buying the single using a mobile phone rather than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2007\/01\/11\/the-future-of-pop\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-music","category-pop-cult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}