I haven’t been paying too close attention to the playlist, but they’ve been playing a lot of songs that’s been added to Fortnite Festival. People maybe tired of the repetition?
It was just a small sample, but I did notice several weeks ago that they were playing more Norteño-esque music during one of my sporadic scans.
I did notice one Thursday night they where calling the time slot Retro Thursdays and the DJ kept saying: Remembering the days of super Thursdays from Estereo Latino now LA QUE BUENA. And they where playing lots of grupera music.
MORE COWBELL!
The problem isn’t the Tuba, the problem aren’t Bandas. The problem is these “popular bands” these trending Bands like Grupo Frontera. They have nothing on Duelo, Intocable, Pesado, La Firma ect ect. They’re just trending at the moment and all these famous artists trying to record with them. Like Bad Bunny, Shakira, and others. But that doesn’t mean they’re super great musicians. They’re just trending but after a while it gets boring. And the younger generations (like many have said before) don’t listen to the radio. They stream, so these new trending artist do not cater to is older listeners.
The summer books are always erratic, very odd indeed to see both of the "classic" stations take big dives like that, but it's probably moreso due to that than any repetition which I honestly haven't noticed.
If anything, banda has lost popularity over the last few years, as artists like Banda MS, La Adictiva, Los Recoditos etc who had several music videos reach well over 100m views on YouTube in the 2010s have declined during the 2020s and aren't getting that same traction anymore. That's probably why there's not as much banda on KLTN these days, though I do think they did a good job of balancing it with norteño when banda was more popular.
