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Any CHR's play "Try That In A Small Town"?

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NoWayNoCC

"Try That In A Small Town" is the #1 song in the land this week. But do any CHR's play it at all? What about CHR's in tiny unrated markets?

Would this be the first time that a song hit #1 without any CHR play?

I'm sure a lot of CHR's don't play any country crossovers, and many never did, but country crossovers have been pretty big from time to time.
 
It's not a crossover hit. Mainstream media don't know that the Billboard Hot 100 is based on physical unit sales and streaming, not airplay. There are separate airplay charts for country and CHR.
 
CTListener said:
It's not a crossover hit. Mainstream media don't know that the Billboard Hot 100 is based on physical unit sales and streaming, not airplay. There are separate airplay charts for country and CHR.
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This, and it's going to take a huge tumble next week, Its sales are already dying down. How far it will get on Country airplay remains to be seen(it's at #19 at the moment).
 
NoWayNoCC said:
"Try That In A Small Town" is the #1 song in the land this week. But do any CHR's play it at all? What about CHR's in tiny unrated markets? Would this be the first time that a song hit #1 without any CHR play?
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Billboard wrote an article about this today for subscribers that isn't yet publicly available. But what it says is that the Hot 100 chart is not genre-specific. That was a decision Billboard made in 2012. It's also not driven by radio airplay. The Billboard Radio Songs chart is the CHR/Top 40 radio chart used by AT40 and other chart shows. According to the article, that 2012 change for the Hot 100 has made crossovers like this possible.

Has it happened before? Sure! It took several weeks for Top 40 stations to play Last Night by Morgan Wallen. We were watching that example in another thread.


Given the power of this song in the Hot 100, it's very possible that CHR stations will add the song at some point.
 
Our CHR KTYL, deep in the ♥ of East Texas, is playing both "Last Night" by Morgan Wallen and "Fast Car" by Luke Combs in heavy rotation, but I have never heard "Try That in a Small Town" once. If it ain't making an appearance here, it's hard to believe any CHR anywhere is.
 
rosecitymedia said:
If it ain't making an appearance here, it's hard to believe any CHR anywhere is.
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I just did a song search on Mediabase for that song and as of today, it's only being played on country stations. It may take a few weeks for the Hot 100 to impact other formats.
 
TheBigA said:
Billboard wrote an article about this today for subscribers that isn't yet publicly available. But what it says is that the Hot 100 chart is not genre-specific. That was a decision Billboard made in 2012. It's also not driven by radio airplay. The Billboard Radio Songs chart is the CHR/Top 40 radio chart used by AT40 and other chart shows. According to the article, that 2012 change for the Hot 100 has made crossovers like this possible.

Has it happened before? Sure! It took several weeks for Top 40 stations to play Last Night by Morgan Wallen. We were watching that example in another thread.


Given the power of this song in the Hot 100, it's very possible that CHR stations will add the song at some point.
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The Hot 100 may not be genre specifics but it is partially driven by the airplay of the Radio Songs chart, though sales and streaming have a lot of weight on it.

Just a refresher for those who may not know:

1991: Billboard converts to the BDS powered "Top 40 Radio Monitor"

1993: Billboard adds Modern Rock stations and Hout AC stations and renames the chart the Hot 100 Airplay

1996: Adult Contemporary stations are added

1998: Rock, R&B, and Country stations are added to the airplay panel, and the Hot 100 no longer requires songs to be given a retail release.

2005: Digital song downloads are added to the chart.

2007: Streaming data from AOL and Yahoo Music is added

2012: Streaming service data from Apple Music/Pandora/Spotify is added

2013: Youtube streams are added.
 
radio2023 said:
The Hot 100 may not be genre specifics but it is partially driven by the airplay of the Radio Songs chart, though sales and streaming have a lot of weight on it.
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Let's put it this way: The song is #1 in the Hot 100 and doesn't appear at all in the Radio Songs chart. That shows how little airplay factors in the Hot 100. My view is it's more the other way around. Seeing this song in the Hot 100 might get some CHR airplay.
 
KilowattKat said:
Maybe a CHR in Texas would play the song, but it seems more suited for Hot AC, maybe even mainstream AC.
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Did you listen to the song? The production sounds a bit heavy handed for a mainstream AC. It's more of a rock song than what I would consider adult contemporary.

But as I said, I did a song search in Mediabase, and the only stations playing this song as of today are country stations.
 
chrocket87 said:
Given its controversy and subject matter, I can’t imagine any CHRs playing this, outside of a few really small markets.
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More than one third of the CHR audience is minority (either Black or Hispanic) and I can't imagine either group feeling comfortable with the subject matter. The audience is also 60% female, and Aldean doesn't usually test well with women. But we'll see what happens in a couple weeks. That's how long it took for CHR to add Morgan Wallen.
 
TheBigA said:
More than one third of the CHR audience is minority (either Black or Hispanic) and I can't imagine either group feeling comfortable with the subject matter. The audience is also 60% female, and Aldean doesn't usually test well with women. But we'll see what happens in a couple weeks. That's how long it took for CHR to add Morgan Wallen.
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I don't think that most Hispanics would find the song objectionable. In the majority of markets where the Hispanic population comes from Mexico and Central America, the first generation immigrants are predominantly from small rural towns themselves so the idea of singing about one is not a "dog whistle" to them and their children. In fact, a predominant percentage of rural origin Mexicans harbor a resentment against people from huge Mexico City and even have negative terms they apply to them.
 
DavidEduardo said:
I don't think that most Hispanics would find the song objectionable.
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Some of the language is threatening to people who might still be apprehensive about the authorities and police.

The line about 'We take care of our own' might relate if it was sung by Bad Bunny, not some guy from Georgia.

But I bet a lot of illegals (or undocumented) in Texas & California know all about vigilante justice.
 
TheBigA said:
More than one third of the CHR audience is minority (either Black or Hispanic) and I can't imagine either group feeling comfortable with the subject matter. The audience is also 60% female, and Aldean doesn't usually test well with women.
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It's been gaining spins since the video controversy started, so the callout among women must not be too bad. If women are reacting negatively, though, should we expect it to lose its bullet short of the top 10? I think top 20 is a certainty, but Aldean is no stranger to having songs stall in the teens, though most of the time he goes top 10.
 
CTListener said:
It's been gaining spins since the video controversy started, so the callout among women must not be too bad.
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There are women and then there are country women. A lot of country women identify with Mrs. Aldean.

Not sure if I can say that for other women, especially if they live in cities.

Aldean has a song about country women called She's Country that's an anthem for his fans. That one tests well with women.

It will be Top 20 country airplay in the chart that will be published on Monday.
 
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Jelly Roll's "Need a Favor" is already on rock and even alternative charts (also saw adds on Hot AC). Hardy is also on rock radio but he's more country rock with some rap (like Kid Rock). Wouldn't be surprised if Try That in a Small Town ends up on both formats as well.
 
TheBigA said:
Some of the language is threatening to people who might still be apprehensive about the authorities and police.

The line about 'We take care of our own' might relate if it was sung by Bad Bunny, not some guy from Georgia.

But I bet a lot of illegals (or undocumented) in Texas & California know all about vigilante justice.
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I wonder why the songwriters didn't mention the people from "Small Towns" who travelled to DC on January 6th?
I guess smashing up the Capitol and attacking police is acceptable if it's in someone else's town...
 
tbolt909 said:
I wonder why the songwriters didn't mention the people from "Small Towns" who travelled to DC on January 6th?
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Or the people from the biggest town who jumped on cars and created general disorder in New York City last week to win a gaming console? Crowd behavior of that kind can happen, almost spontaneously sometime... or worse when provoked by some kind of injustice... in any populated area.
tbolt909 said:
I guess smashing up the Capitol and attacking police is acceptable if it's in someone else's town...
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And the same can be said about several parking lot riots at Dodger Stadium in LA in recent years. Again, anonymous crowds in big cities where "nobody knows my name" can happen anywhere and with any kind of people.
 
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