Hendrix has been dead for 50 years. Thin Lizzy was an integrated band with one black member and hasn't been relevant for more than 30 years. Kravitz was a '90s act. TV on the Radio, Clark and Smith are barely household names in their own households. None of those artists or bands have the current star status in rock that Darius Rucker and Kane Brown have in country music, and Jimmie Allen is rapidly making a name for himself with high-charting singles and collaborations and his recent selection as the CMA's top newcomer for 2021.
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What do you mean? Hip-hop has the likes of Eminem, the Beastie Boys, Busta Rhymes, Wyclef Jean, Fat Joe, Lil Kim, Cardi B, Missy Elliott, hell, even Fresh Kid Ice of 2 Live Crew. So hip-hop being diverse is not new.Good post, from CT Listener.
With all of the singling out of Country in this thread, I wonder how diverse is rap/hip-hop.
Speaking of rock, Dave Matthews Band are kind of diverse, I'd have to say. Let's not forget that the guitarist of the Pixies is of Filipino descent. And who can forget Chuck Berry or Carlos Santana? So many examples, past and present.
I've been trying to work my way through the Spotify "Top Songs of 2021 USA" playlist, which they claim are the most streamed songs in the USA of the last year. Certainly not everything is hip-hop, but it is notable just how little of this music is clean enough for radio airplay. 37 of the 50 songs (74%) are tagged explicit by Spotify.
Some of them are so explicit that a "radio edit" would be nearly indistinguishable from a test tone.
Hardcore hip-hop is indeed in trouble, if we're talking commercial viability on the FM dial.
That audience - which is mostly young and mostly male - prefers other means for obtaining music (as noted in earlier posts above this one).
Urban AC on the other hand is doing GREAT (at least ratings wise) in many large & major markets across the country.
That audience - which is mostly young and mostly male - prefers other means for obtaining music (as noted in earlier posts above this one).
Urban AC on the other hand is doing GREAT (at least ratings wise) in many large & major markets across the country.
Technically, there are currently four longwave stations in the Western Hemisphere. They are located in Iceland, Ireland, Morocco, and the United Kingdom. But I know that you meant the Americas.
Lajon Weatherspoon of Sevendust, Tom Morello and Zack de la Rocha from Rage Against the Machine are a couple more off the top of my head from Rock genre.
Big A and I were discussing this in a thread a week or so ago. The censoring of commercial radio by the FCC is yet another limitation on sustaining listeners over streaming, satellite, and podcasts.
Very true. Another reason why terrestrial radio and live network TV to an extent are less and less viable.
Thanks for posting. The thread has gone completely off topic.
Glad to see the Block is invested a bit in the format
Four longwave stations but seven transmitters. Iceland has the same program on 189 and 207 kHz, opposite ends of the country. The BBC longwave in the UK is actually three synchronized transmitters on 198 kHz: 500kw at Droitwich, and 50kw each at Westerglen and Burghead. The Irish (252) and Moroccan (171) transmitters are stand-alones.
In the U.S. longwave was proposed for Public Emergency Radio in the 1970s, but never built. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Emergency_Radio_of_the_United_States
In my geography class, the "Hemisférico Occidental" was defined as North and South America and the "Istmo" of Panamá and the related island groups. Apparently this is a case where some definitions are cultural. We were taught that the "new world" was the Western Hemisphere, and the Old World was Europe, and so on.
But, if that is the definition of American schools and geographers, then "the Americas" is what I meant. I learned something interesting in this.
Oh, and we were taught that North and South America are two parts of a single continent.
And it has been reported that the UK long wave stations will run as long as the equipment works, and then closed.
WGU20 was built and put on the air. I remember hearing its repeating message on 179 khz. It put a strong signal into New England from Maryland.
They should be. Nothing but a man-made canal separates them. There's no reason Europe and Asia should be separate continents either.
Actually, doesn't a small strip of land connect Africa to Asia as well? The only truly separated continents are Australia and Antarctica.
Correct - Afro-Eurasia is a single land mass. Now back to The Block!
CGP Grey had a fun video on that topic. Back to the block indeed. I think I underestimated their ability to compete with other urban/hip-hop stations in the region.
Interestingly, there is another thread that wandered off into the reasons for state borders and things like dividing Florida into two states, CA into four and a provision in Texas' constitution allowing it to divide into five. It makes us realize how arbitrary geographic "borders" are.
I missed this post initially, sorry! I do listen mostly to a station from "back home", but only because it has a music format (dance) that isn't available where I live rather than out of any sort of homesickness! The stations where I live now are fairly limited - we have two Hot ACs, a CHR and a rimshot Classic Hits, and that's about it.
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