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Survey Shows Gen-Z Not Listening To Radio

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CTListener said:
I never meta discussion I didn't like.
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One of the best Gary Owens lines (and it's a long list) was in a live Sav-On Drug ad:

"Time for the Sav-On radio bargain of the day. Only today, Tuesday, only at Sav-On, only 69 cents for the large size Metamucil laxative. Get gentle relief from natural grain with Metamucil. And remember, as Will Rogers said, "I never met a mucil I didn't like."
 
Kelly A said:
I was named after my father's friend and mentor; Kelly Johnson from Lockheed Martin fame:
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Kelly was once a very popular name, according to this:

Popularity for the name Kelly - Behind the Name

Popularity statistics for the given name Kelly in the United States.
www.behindthename.com www.behindthename.com
It became more popular throughout the 1950s and into the 60s, bubbling under in 1967 at #101 and hit the top 100 in 1968, peaking at #97 and then slid down, falling off the popular male baby names chart in 2003. And now, on with the countdown….
 
radiofan2023 said:
Kelly was once a very popular name, according to this:

Popularity for the name Kelly - Behind the Name

Popularity statistics for the given name Kelly in the United States.
www.behindthename.com www.behindthename.com
It became more popular throughout the 1950s and into the 60s, bubbling under in 1967 at #101 and hit the top 100 in 1968, peaking at #97 and then slid down, falling off the popular male baby names chart in 2003. And now, on with the countdown….
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I noticed a few things from this "behind the name" site. According to the graph, the masculine form of Kelly is now nonexistent but the feminine form is no longer popular either! Then, I looked up my name. As you can imagine, there were no Semoochies listed but my counter name, Stephen is no longer popular, nor is Steven and Steve is also nonexistent. Initial popularity of the feminine form of Kelly is said to be because of a combination of Grace Kelly and the niece on the "Bachelor Father" TV show.
 
semoochie said:
I noticed a few things from this "behind the name" site. According to the graph, the masculine form of Kelly is now nonexistent but the feminine form is no longer popular either! Then, I looked up my name. As you can imagine, there were no Semoochies listed but my counter name, Stephen is no longer popular, nor is Steven and Steve is also nonexistent. Initial popularity of the feminine form of Kelly is said to be because of a combination of Grace Kelly and the niece on the "Bachelor Father" TV show.
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I have a friend in England with a husband named Nigel. Both are in their 50s. Nigel is such a typically British name that I assumed it's always been popular and continues to be. Apparently I am wrong. Various websites tell me that the name peaked in the '50s and '60s (reason not given) and that last year, Nigel was not given to a single British baby, at least those for whom records are available.
 
semoochie said:
I noticed a few things from this "behind the name" site. According to the graph, the masculine form of Kelly is now nonexistent but the feminine form is no longer popular either! Then, I looked up my name. As you can imagine, there were no Semoochies listed but my counter name, Stephen is no longer popular, nor is Steven and Steve is also nonexistent. Initial popularity of the feminine form of Kelly is said to be because of a combination of Grace Kelly and the niece on the "Bachelor Father" TV show.
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Time doing what time does. For 20 or 30 years, Michael was reliably in the top five baby boy names.

About five years ago, while I was still ND at KFBK, a reporter in her 20s mentioned that you just never meet anyone "young" named Michael or Mike.

After I fired her.....JOKING....I looked it up and yeah, it peaked a long time ago.

Looking again now, I see a rebound to #16.

It's all cyclical. Here's the top ten for 2023:

  1. Liam
  2. Noah
  3. Oliver
  4. James
  5. Elijah
  6. William
  7. Henry
  8. Lucas
  9. Benjamin
  10. Theodore

And here's the top 10 from 1956, the year I was born:

1. Michael
2. James
3. Robert
4. David
5. John
6. William
7. Richard
8. Mark
9. Thomas
10. Steven


So, James and William are fairly constant, but most of the current top ten are names that were more common in the 1880s.
 
CTListener said:
Excursions Into Inane Nothingness? More like a great album title. Maybe Yes's long-awaited follow-up to Tales From Topographic Oceans.
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Albums? But Gen Z doesn't know what an "album" is. Millennials, yeah, but Gen Z? Probably not many.

cc333 said:
Yeah, why is that?

She's been blowing past all kinds of Billboard chart records (some dating back 50 years or more), and I can't figure out why!

Is it like she's the only music Gen-Z will listen to anymore or something?

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It's because she (and Justin Bieber) are the last big pop singing stars. The fact she started in Country, the US's most popular music format also helps.
 
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