Country songs on AC outlets

[Buckeyes2001]

I have been hearing the song Cruise by Florida Georgia Line being played a lot on some AC and even Hot AC stations recently. What criteria determines which Country songs get played on non country stations and when and how often?

 

[vchimpanzee]

Magic 98.9 in Greenville, SC will play just about anything that sounds AC.

 

[crainbebo]

I have been hearing the song Cruise by Florida Georgia Line being played a lot on some AC and even Hot AC stations recently. What criteria determines which Country songs get played on non country stations and when and how often?

Florida Georgia Line's album, country version, or the stupid "What up Nelly?" version? I hate that latter version - I wish AC/Hot AC would just play the country/western version.

I hear "My Wish" by Rascal Flatts a lot on my local KRWM, as well as "Bless the Broken Road." Also Jason Aldean/Kelly Clarkston's "Don't You Wanna Stay". CHQM 103.5 in Vancouver BC plays "See You Again" by Carrie Underwood often. Also Shania Twain is all over AC.

-crainbebo

 

[timf65]

There has always been some cross-over country songs playing on AC stations through out time, but alot of times they will eliminate the steel guitar on the AC versions of the songs.

 

[ChrisInMI]

Criteria? I suppose that would be whatever the record label decides might appeal to non-country listeners. Sometimes there's a remix, sometimes there isn't - there wasn't with Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats."

I know CHFI in Toronto plays a couple of non-crossover country songs, although they are all by artists who have crossed over before, such as Lady Antebellum, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban and Tim McGraw. WJXA in Nashville, not surprisingly, has also put a few non-crossovers, such as Taylor Swift's "Mean" and Martina McBride's "I'm Gonna Love You Through It," in rotation, and one of their gold titles is Wynonna's "No One Else On Earth," which was a minor AC crossover back in '92.

There are some small-town stations around that still do an even mix of AC and country, including WJJQ in Tomahawk, WI, and KIOW in Forest City, IA (both of which stream).

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

I have been hearing the song Cruise by Florida Georgia Line being played a lot on some AC and even Hot AC stations recently. What criteria determines which Country songs get played on non country stations and when and how often?

I work for a group of stations, one country, one AC.. one soft adult oldies.

I've heard several female country artists on the AC station.

The AC station leans a bit gold.. but puts some non popish stuff on there.

Funny thing... if you stand in the right place in the office, you can hear all 3 stations air monitors at once.

One time the country station was playing something the soft adult oldies station could've been playing........ the soft adult oldies station was playing something the AC station could've been playing and the AC station was playing something the country station should've been playing.

 

[vchimpanzee]

WJXA in Nashville, not surprisingly, has also put a few non-crossovers, such as Taylor Swift's "Mean"

Okay, that's just weird. That's her one good song. It doesn't sound like it would fit on AC.

This isn't about AC but the morning DJ on the station I listen to most plays quite a bit of country music (since he was a country DJ once) and not all of it crossover. Tuesday during the all-request six-pack he played a Kenny Rogers song I had never heard which sounded country, not pop like most of his stuff. You just never know what you're going to get on that station.

At 9:00 of course he switches to Jeff Rollins.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

WJXA in Nashville, not surprisingly, has also put a few non-crossovers, such as Taylor Swift's "Mean"

Okay, that's just weird. That's her one good song. It doesn't sound like it would fit on AC.

This isn't about AC but the morning DJ on the station I listen to most plays quite a bit of country music (since he was a country DJ once) and not all of it crossover. Tuesday during the all-request six-pack he played a Kenny Rogers song I had never heard which sounded country, not pop like most of his stuff. You just never know what you're going to get on that station.

At 9:00 of course he switches to Jeff Rollins.

Well, Jeff Rollins on Dial Global's "America's Best Music" adult standards format does play some country, the format as a whole does. I've heard a Kenny Rogers and Willie Nelson song on there before. Our AM Station/FM Translator is an affiliate of the same network.

 

[vchimpanzee]

WJXA in Nashville, not surprisingly, has also put a few non-crossovers, such as Taylor Swift's "Mean"

Okay, that's just weird. That's her one good song. It doesn't sound like it would fit on AC.

This isn't about AC but the morning DJ on the station I listen to most plays quite a bit of country music (since he was a country DJ once) and not all of it crossover. Tuesday during the all-request six-pack he played a Kenny Rogers song I had never heard which sounded country, not pop like most of his stuff. You just never know what you're going to get on that station.

At 9:00 of course he switches to Jeff Rollins.

Well, Jeff Rollins on Dial Global's "America's Best Music" adult standards format does play some country, the format as a whole does. I've heard a Kenny Rogers and Willie Nelson song on there before. Our AM Station/FM Translator is an affiliate of the same network.

I know. It's mostly crossover.

 

[Thomps2525]

KOST in Los Angeles plays almost every Taylor Swift single; the one played most frequently is Love Story. And Amazed by Lonestar still gets played two or three times per week.

 

[kevtronics]

And Amazed by Lonestar still gets played two or three times per week.

The normal country/AC mix or the CHR remix?

The Dixie Chicks did a pop remix of "Wide Open Spaces". I heard it played exactly once on a CHR station, and never again (and that was years before the whole boycott thing).

 

[vchimpanzee]

I heard what I believe is "Landslide" on a Hot AC. Actually, people claim it plays too many older songs to be Hot AC. And I think it was Fleetwood Mac rather than the Dixie Chicks.

 

[michael hagerty]

I heard what I believe is "Landslide" on a Hot AC. Actually, people claim it plays too many older songs to be Hot AC. And I think it was Fleetwood Mac rather than the Dixie Chicks.

The Fleetwood Mac version tests very well and is a big crowd-pleaser in concert.