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iHeart Billy Joel Premiere

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iHeart Radio will premiere the new song by Billy Joel on 450 of its radio stations:

www.insideradio.com

iHeart Stations To World-Premiere New Billy Joel Single Nationwide Tomorrow.

Billy Joel returns to radio with his first new single in more than 16 years, when iHeartMedia world-premieres “Turn the Lights Back On” on 450 stations nationwide Feb. 1, at
www.insideradio.com www.insideradio.com

iHeartMedia will world-premiere “Turn the Lights Back On,” Billy Joel's first new music for Columbia Records since 2007, over 450 of its CHR, adult contemporary, hot AC, classic rock, classic hits, and news/talk stations nationwide Feb. 1, at 7am local time.
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This follows similar cross-format premieres of songs by The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
 
The new Stones song and the reconstituted Beatles song got little to no airplay after their debuts. Could Billy Joel's song become a hit on AC radio?
 
CTListener said:
The new Stones song and the reconstituted Beatles song got little to no airplay after their debuts. Could Billy Joel's song become a hit on AC radio?
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It depends on if it resonates with the people. iHeart says it will continue to play the song after the debut:

Following the world premiere, iHeart's hot AC and classic rock stations will continue to highlight the song throughout the day, with AC, classic hits and oldies stations airing it hourly.
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firepoint525 said:
Still airs on the Sirius XM Beatles channel. But it belongs there.
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That channel is for Beatles completists. It plays everything the band ever recorded, so that song, synthetic as it is, has to be played.

Figures that Classic Vinyl would play it, too. SXM has always stretched its playlists, even on the channels that have FM equivalents, so they can attract the musically adventurous and/or chart geeks.
 
The bad news for this song is it was released at the same time as the new Justin Timberlake song.

From what I see today, Justin is beating Billy in the Hot AC format.

In addition to iHeart, I see two Audacy Hot AC stations playing it: WNEW and KLLC. Plus Hubbard's WTMX.
 
TheBigA said:
The bad news for this song is it was released at the same time as the new Justin Timberlake song.

From what I see today, Justin is beating Billy in the Hot AC format.

In addition to iHeart, I see two Audacy Hot AC stations playing it: WNEW and KLLC. Plus Hubbard's WTMX.
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Except JT's new song doing horribly on streaming/downloading. Once radio gets the horrible callback, they'll drop it. Not even the SNL performance gave it a bump on Spotify.
 
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