Re-listening to the first couple Big Shiny Tunes CDs (if you're Canadian and of a certain age, you know), and some of the songs are big, famous, still on the radio. You know, Bush, Sloan, RHCP, etc. And then there's the oddballs, like "Paste" by Pluto, a Vancouver band that had a brief run of a few years in the mid 90s. Nominated for a single Juno. It's a pretty decent song! I think a lot about who makes it and who doesn't (in various things) and how so much is a matter of luck and timing.