Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andy Cherry

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. JohnCD (talk) 07:34, 24 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Andy Cherry

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Note that this AFD includes the album Nothing Left To Fear.
Very minute evidence of notability. The charting is legit, but I have found no evidence of play on stations, and there appears to be little coverage for his music. The best refs are to Billboard and CCM Magazine, which do not appear to be legit. Otherwise, there is no evidence of notability elsewhere.Qxukhgiels56 (talk) 21:31, 9 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

delete Created by a repeated vandal a few months ago (since indeffed for socking). The Billboard refs don't contain any substantial coverage, the body of this article is all from the self-published sources. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:40, 9 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - The song has actually gotten solid airplay on KLOVE, the charts are legit and the CCM Magazine source is solid as CCM Magazine is one of the larger (if not the largest) CCM-oriented magazine. It's a stub, sure, but it doesn't warrant deletion. Toa Nidhiki05 22:10, 9 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Big Keep, I think Qxukhgiels56 does not know how to research anything. Just go and look at Mediabase, for the evidence of his false claims and asertions about no stations playing Andy Cherry's music. First song "Our God's Alive" is played by KFSH for the week of May 6 a total of 19 times and is at No. 11 on the list, KLJC played the song 26 times and is at No. 10 most played and WCRJ played his song 44 times and is at No. 3. On the subject of his second song "Nothing But The Blood" got played 23 times on WLAB coming in at No. 20, which it was not even played the week prior. So, two songs added to stations rotations is this enought for you Qxukhgiels56. The way you do is save the pdf file to your computer and search for Andy Cherry if you know how Qxukhgiels56!HotHat (talk) 00:29, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"two songs added to stations rotations is this enought"

I would very much hope our standards would be rather higher than that. Andy Dingley (talk) 00:32, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

FYI: For those uneducated about MUSICBIO go and make yourself very familiar with the criteria if you want to have or add anything of credence to this deletion discussion conversation. This man clearly passes under the Nos. 1, 2, 11, just to name a few, and I could probably get it to pass No. 4 as well because he is or was on the Grace Amazing Tour with Jimmy Needham, know him?HotHat (talk) 00:39, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

#1 & #2 - not adequately demonstrated by this article, by any of the sources that I can see.

#11 network, not just a single station. Andy Dingley (talk) 01:07, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

So we have to go through manually out of the 100+ Christian AC and CHR stations to see how many times his song got played? That is a laughable criteria - if you want to go to the trouble of finding that, go ahead, but songs don't magically just chart off of no airplay on an airplay-only format like the Christian Songs chart. According to Nielson BDS], he got 942 plays and 2.522 million audience impressions over just the last week. I'll also note that "Our God's Alive" is currently the sixth most-played song on the K-LOVE Radio station, which you can find on the K-LOVE website. The fact that he has had a charted single and album as well as verification from other sources proves he is indeed a notable subject. Toa Nidhiki05 02:41, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 16:57, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 16:57, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:07, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

On Air 1, Andy Cherry song "Our God's Alive" was at the peak position of No. 2 on their top songs for the week of April 28. On K-LOVE, the song was at a peak position of No. 4 on their Top Song chart for the week of April 8, which they have some gaps, so it could very well have gotten higher.HotHat (talk) 22:14, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per http://www.billboard.com/artist/andy-cherry/chart-history/1417659#/artist/andy-cherry/1417659 And @ Andy Dingley, the charting doesn't have to contain anything substantial. WP:BAND #2 simply reads: "Has had a single or album on any country's national music chart" and the album has been charting for eighteen weeks, peaking at No. 19. If you would take one second to look at the source you'd see. Now it's time for you to make yourself very familiar with the criteria. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 23:16, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps you don't know how to use the Billboard charts features. Three different entries there so I'm not sure what you don't see. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 23:18, 17 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, a charted single on Billboard is enough to meet WP:BAND. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 00:56, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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