A New Look at Old Subject: Making New Songs into Hits

[kevtronics]

I would have thought it was "I Hope You Dance" by Lee Ann Womack

That was on the Billboard AC chart for a paltry 94 weeks. But it hung around radio for a long, long time because first they pitched it to Country stations, then they remixed it and pitched it to AC stations, and then remixed it again and pitched it to Hot AC and CHR. Lonestar's "Amazed" went through a similar metamorphosis.

 

[CTListener]

That was on the Billboard AC chart for a paltry 94 weeks. But it hung around radio for a long, long time because first they pitched it to Country stations, then they remixed it and pitched it to AC stations, and then remixed it again and pitched it to Hot AC and CHR. Lonestar's "Amazed" went through a similar metamorphosis.

Same thing was done with Taylor Swift's "Love Story," the banjo replaced by more electric guitar. Ten years earlier, AC would never have touched the song even with the banjo gone, but by the time "Love Story" topped the country charts, the Hot AC transition had begun.

 

[TheBigA]

There is no rule on what a current or a power or a recurrent are. Stations look at their own research on currents and based on scores rotate the most liked songs the most often.

Depends on who you ask. The trade charts have rules about how songs are designated. At Mediabase a song remains a current as long as it retains its bullet. After two weeks without a bullet the song becomes recurrent. After about 3-4 years, it goes into "power gold." Then gold.

 

[Greg Goodfellow]

That was only on TV which might have been that Sullivan show you mentioned. I don't remember him appearing on any other national TV show during that time. He was all over the Top-40 radio though.

He was on Steve Allen’s “Tonight” show.

 

[davideduardo]

I believe the record was Savage Garden's "I Knew I Loved You", which stayed on the Billboard AC chart for 124 weeks. That's over two years!

No, it was "Mi Forma de Sentir" on #1 rated KLVE in LA in around 1997-97.

 

[landtuna]

He was on Steve Allen’s “Tonight” show.

I was in the Navy during that time. No TV.

 

[KeithE4]

He was on Steve Allen’s “Tonight” show.

Elvis' first national TV appearance was on CBS's Stage Show, with the Dorsey brothers, on 1/28/1956.

 

[CTListener]

No, it was "Mi Forma de Sentir" on #1 rated KLVE in LA in around 1997-97.

Does every post have to specify "English-language"? The topic was the Billboard AC chart based on sales/airplay at English-language AC stations, not a survey done by one station in one city that programs Spanish-language music for listeners who are nearly all Spanish-fluent, if not Spanish-dominant. And, by my calendar, "around 1997-97" would be, um, 1997.

 

[davideduardo]

Does every post have to specify "English-language"? The topic was the Billboard AC chart based on sales/airplay at English-language AC stations, not a survey done by one station in one city that programs Spanish-language music for listeners who are nearly all Spanish-fluent, if not Spanish-dominant. And, by my calendar, "around 1997-97" would be, um, 1997.

With, now, over 60,000,000 Hispanics in the US and a great portion of the country having previously been parts of Spain and Mexico, I don't see any difference in a radio discussion of a top rated Spanish language station or one in English in AC or rock or country or whatever.



And the thread has covered all types of music, from AC to Country to Alt. Certainly, there are far, far more listeners to Spanish language radio nationally than to the total of Alternative stations.

Our largest not-yet-a-state territory is 100% Spanish speaking.

The station in question was #1 in LA, it was AC, and its playlists were replicated on stations like WAMR in Miami and even WIOB in Puerto Rico as well as all over the Southwest.