AGAIN....Q100/ATLANTA COMPLETELY IGNORING A TOP 10 RECORD.....

[carolinaradio]

Aren't stations that run any kind of "premium choice" programming excluded from the charts somehow or treated differently? I'm not sure, but I know that if you look on Allaccess, our local hot AC (that still reports as AC) plays stuff that no other AC is playing, but if you click on the song name, that station is not listed as playing/spinning the song, if that makes any sense. I started noticing that when WMYI picked up Premium Choice overnights.

 

[atlantaboy]

^It's not just Premium Choice though - Clear Channel, just like Cumulus, is a top-down corporation that dictates what most of its stations add and don't add, and if they don't give the "okay" to Train, Christina Perri, Nickelback, We The Kings, etc., most of their stations will stay away from it, leaving these songs to peak in the 20s and 30s on the CHR chart - and without Clear Channel support, you can't have a Top 10 record, no matter how hard you try

 

[CHRles]

Clear Channel, just like Cumulus, is a top-down corporation that dictates what most of its stations add and don't add

Concerning Clear Channel that's simply not true, based on what you see in the weekly adds section.
It's also not always a Rock thing. 102.7 KIIS FM L.A. , for example, wasn't as quick to give massive airplay to The Wanted, and rival 97.1 Amp Radio (owned by CBS) only added the song officially this week.
While some Clear Channel stations follow the fast on rhythm slow on Rock philosophy, you can also find simiularly programmed stations with Entercom, CBS, Cox, and others, and even a few Cumulus ones.
Furthermore, even some of the Rhythmic leaning stations will jump early on some Rock records. For example, KIIS-FM was early on Paramore's "Misery Business".

Cumulus is the only company that tends to dictate what its stations will add, and oftentimes, how often they'll air records.

 

[atlantaboy]

^I guess I disagree...

Sure, there are a number of Clear Channel stations that are allowed to "do their own thing," but I feel like 75% of them seem to follow top-down instructions (i. e. required to put Madonna/Rihanna/Justin Bieber song directly into power in its debut week, discouraged from adding most Alt/Rock/HAC songs too early so that they're not competing against sister Alt/HAC stations, etc.)

I guess I just feel like if WIXX or WKRZ was bought out by Clear Channel, Cumulus, or CBS, there's no way they'd be playing the stuff they do

And back in the 90s before Clear Channel bought out all those stations, there was a thousand times more diversity in playlists than there is now IMO

 

[Marv-L.A.]

That's definitely the case here in LA; LA's market is 45% Hispanic, so KIIS & AMP both play wall-to-wall dance musoic and the so-called 'power pop' stuff. Hot AC powerhouse KBIG plays tons of the biggest top 40 smashes from the format's last great decade (80s), when it was flat-out untouchable, and the 25-54 numbers in many markets were just ridiculous.

Rock & roll is essentially nonexistent at CC's CHR/Pop stations; Nickelback's new CD has gone nowhere at the format only a few years after 'Dark Horse' did extremly well at top 40 radio staring in 2008, which is a hell of a way to treat an act as huge as they are.

 

[Dkampy]

^(i. e. required to put Madonna/Rihanna/Justin Bieber song directly into power in its debut week,
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Clear channel may require instant powers for certain artists through deals which were made...but after that weekend or whatever...the stations can do as they want with the track. For example quite a bit of the stations even droped "Give Me All Your Love" and "U da One" immediately after that weekend.

I do agree though...I wish more stations would behave like WIXX and discover their own hits.