Does song length affect Coheed and Cambria's commercial success?

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Every time I listen to Coheed, I can't believe they don't enjoy a higher level of commercial success. One day while I was stuck in traffic, I started trying to figure out why the band doesn't enjoy more commercial success. They market themselves well - even employing internet venues like My Space. Their songs simply rule. They've made Top-Guitar-Tune lists in Rolling Stone magazine. Claudio has a successful graphic novel venture. Rock band features a few of their songs... Their songs are long -- usually well over 4 minutes and sometimes 7 or 8 minutes long. Most commercial success for Rock bands are the result play-time on radio and tv video shows. Radio stations like to keep their song-length at somewhere around 4 minutes. Therefore, no matter how freaking awesome a Coheed song is, it will rarely be played on the radio. I've actually called into stations requesting C&C, only to be told they don't really play them because of the song length. So, here is the dilemna: how does C&C increase their radio-play while still maintaining the musical artistic integrity of their songs? Personally, I think C&C should release their regular music, but then endeavor to create radio-versions of several of their tracks. Claudio's a bloody genius when it comes to composition - he could do it. While the greatness of bands certainly cannot be measured by their commercial success alone, commercial success will usually prolong the life of a band. They have to eat right? In the meantime, C&C fans need to start to badger radio stations into playing more Coheed.