AmericanIdol host RyanSeacrest pens a love letter to his job of the last two decades and explains what it would take for it to last forever
I think about the impact in the music culture. I get to play songs on the radio, and there was a time when maybe music directors or program directors thought, “Oh, this is a novelty act. This is a novelty song coming from a television show, who knows if this is really a star?” I think there was a time when you weren’t truly accepted if you won a television competition in the music world, but that has changed.
When we were in the beginning of it and the numbers were 20 million, 25 million — the finales at 40 million, crazy numbers — to look back at that, it seems like it was a fantasy world. Look at the numbers that a show can generate today. But I think, with all the fragmentation, it’s something that everyone experiences, something that we have expected. And hopefully, with more and more platforms, there’s an opportunity for more eyeballs to see the show.
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