In previous years, such shows were much anticipated and participation by listeners would be “above the rim”.
Corporates would literally fall over each other to sponsor cash prizes and packages for winners, but things have changed.
Could this be owing to the effects of Covid-19 on companies’ productivity and income or the general realisation by the corporate world that the numbers of listeners have dwindled?
It’s just over a week after the shutdown chart show, but there has been deafening silence and virtually no reaction from music critics, listeners and all stakeholders in sharp contrast to debates that characterised the aftermath of these chart shows in years gone by.