| iHeart Radio has been one of the most successful | | | | the app, no messing around with options or anything |
| iPhone apps to come out of the craze, because it | | | | else. They love how it can put anyone in touch with |
| fulfills a basic need: that of people for their music. | | | | the local culture anywhere, and this has been one of |
| Many of us grew up listening to a particular radio | | | | the general public's greatest praises of the iHeart |
| station, moved across the country, only to find that | | | | Radio iPhone app. |
| nobody played our music in our new place. This radio | | | | In the United States of Modernity, it's rare that we |
| app changed all that. Live since 2008, it has been an | | | | end up where we started out, so we get nostalgic |
| instant hit among critics and the general public | | | | for our music and our back-home culture. No wonder |
| alike.iHeart Radio's developers keep themselves in the | | | | iHeart Radio has done so well in the app store: it |
| background, rarely doing interviews or making public | | | | fulfills a basic need, to connect and reconnect with |
| statements. They have done their best to turn iHeart | | | | the culture of our youth. In addition, it fulfills our need |
| Radio into an entity all its own, with a loyal fanbase | | | | to surround ourselves with all the information we can, |
| and constantly updated content. Radio lovers are, of | | | | by connecting us with lyrics and cover art while |
| course, iHeart Radio's primary fanbase. It's like a radio | | | | listening to each song. |
| dial with no static, where every station is a possibility. | | | | Finally, this application maintains a vibrant Facebook |
| The app allows all the stations to be organized and | | | | presence, with a community of passionate radio fans |
| searched through, so there's no flipping the dial until | | | | and a number of special Facebook-only spiffs (such |
| you find something good. Just pick a station and go. | | | | as the recent video of musician Justin Bieber's private |
| Critics have raved about how straightforward it is. | | | | show) to keep public interest in the app. After all, if |
| Everything works, and nothing ever crashes. That | | | | anything is anything these days, it's got at least a |
| you can just pick a station out of over 350 stations | | | | couple thousand fans on Facebook, and iHeart Radio |
| in the United States and listen to it is the theme of | | | | has over five thousand. |