ALL FANS:
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Please follow JIMMIE MANNING's excellent ideas right below that I have pasted once again.

1)  Post any radio stations to the list that are in your area and accept e-mail requests.  THEN EACH LIST MEMBER WHO HAS AN E-MAIL ADDRESS THAT  DOES NOT REVEAL LOCATION SHOULD E-MAIL A REQUEST TO THAT STATION.  Request the song once a day.  This will be a firm indicator that the station should increase airplay, and it may make the song eligible for the station's nightly countdown.  IT WILL ONLY TAKE A COUPLE OF SECONDS TO E-MAIL, so just do it.

2)  Request to MTV Total Request, Feed MTV, and VH1.  MTV really drives sales of music.  Airplay for the last few Hanson singles and Backstreet Boys songs haven't been too hot, but they have been successful.  MUCH OF THIS CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO MTV.  This probably will not be as successful as  the radio campaign, but it will help.   TOTAL@mtvmail.com

3)  Go to your music store now and request that they have the single, maxi, and video single available on Tuesday.  Chances are that the music store  will already have these on order, but they might give them special display  consideration or increase the order if people request the songs.  Once I asked my po-dunk hick town music store manager if he was getting the new Heather Nova on Tuesday, so he ordered extra and put her on a listening  station because he thought he might be missing out on the next big thing.  IF YOU ARE AT THE MUSIC STORE, JUST TRY IT.  IT ONLY TAKES A COUPLE OF  SECONDS, SO YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE.  Another thing you can do (shameless, I know, but I've done it) is to move Madonna product to choice spots in the store (like onto a display shelf or something).  This depends on how busy your music store/Wal-Mart/whatever is at the time.

4)  Go recommend the single to other mailing list members for the lists you are on.  We get messages telling us to try Tori Amos and Garbage, among  others, frequently, and they aren't out of the blue.  If you can work  recommending the single into the conversation of your post, do it.  It  can't hurt.

5)  Buy the single (well, duh...).
 
To all the people who live in the US, please speak up to the list.  And tell us what you're doing.  Wherever you are.  Just do something and tell us.  Go request on the net and do whatever you can.

US radio stations.  Here are some links:

http://www.radio-directory.com/fr_chr.html
http://www.wbr.com/radio/links.htm
http://wmbr.mit.edu/stations/format3.html#top
http://www.radio-directory.com

Please start actively requesting online, to the many fans who are not in the US.  You will make a difference.

Also, please advertise Operation Ray Of Light on the newsgroup and the WB board. Thank you.