Breaking Benjamin on CHR is that possible? or is any CHR station in the country playing them.
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Breaking Benjamin
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I don't think anyone is playing them yet. This album being lighter than previous releases has a pretty good chance of getting Breaking Benjamin a few spins on CHR. I'm actually surprised their record label hasn't tried to push "The Diary Of Jane", given its massive success on Active Rock and Alternative and the fact that it's pretty mellow compared to songs like "So Cold".
SoulCrusher said:I don't think anyone is playing them yet. This album being lighter than previous releases has a pretty good chance of getting Breaking Benjamin a few spins on CHR. I'm actually surprised their record label hasn't tried to push "The Diary Of Jane", given its massive success on Active Rock and Alternative and the fact that it's pretty mellow compared to songs like "So Cold".
Agreed. I actually really love this band. "Diary Of Jane" still seems a little to heavy in parts for CHR (in particular the chugging de-tuned riffs), however the new single "Breath" is an amazing song and has potential crossover ability.
I think I found the first and probably only CHR in the entire country playing it, granted they are in the area where Breaking Benjamin is from, but 98.5 KRZ (WKRZ-Freeland-Wilkes-Barre-Scranton/WKRF-107.9 Tobyhanna-Stroudsburg).
There's a remix to "Diary of Jane" that I'm really digging:
http://collect.myspace.com/music/popup.cfm?num=0&time=undefined&fid=1344755&uid=1&t=9u
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PptR0g0XgIk
http://collect.myspace.com/music/popup.cfm?num=0&time=undefined&fid=1344755&uid=1&t=9u
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PptR0g0XgIk
I think I've heard of this band before and thought they sounded like Crossfade/Papa Roach. And those two are good bands.
The problem is that harder music of course works better towards the Alternative and Active Rock formats that are targeted towards males, not females. Although we have seen a couple Alternative songs do well on CHR in the past few years (Staind's "Right Here", Crossfade's "Cold", and Papa Roach's "Scars" to name a few), its a near fact that harder rock just doesn't do anything on this format. Even those three songs were more ballad-ish and therefore sounded pop-rock. Yes, there was a time back in the 90s when adding hard rock to your CHR was like adding hip-hop to your CHR today, but its not the same anymore. The times are changing, and hip-hop has taken over most of this decade. Most of the rock songs on the chart can barely be considered, most of the acts are emo-pop/MySpace whore bands (Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, All American Rejects, MCR), bland commercialized pop-rock with zero creativity (Hinder, Nickelback, Evanescence) or Hot AC light-bands that occassionally bring a catchy hit (The Fray, Augustana, Snow Patrol). Again, that's not to say some harder rock has hit big, it does, and I do mean it does happen, and it could happen for BB, but very rarely these days.
The problem is that harder music of course works better towards the Alternative and Active Rock formats that are targeted towards males, not females. Although we have seen a couple Alternative songs do well on CHR in the past few years (Staind's "Right Here", Crossfade's "Cold", and Papa Roach's "Scars" to name a few), its a near fact that harder rock just doesn't do anything on this format. Even those three songs were more ballad-ish and therefore sounded pop-rock. Yes, there was a time back in the 90s when adding hard rock to your CHR was like adding hip-hop to your CHR today, but its not the same anymore. The times are changing, and hip-hop has taken over most of this decade. Most of the rock songs on the chart can barely be considered, most of the acts are emo-pop/MySpace whore bands (Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, All American Rejects, MCR), bland commercialized pop-rock with zero creativity (Hinder, Nickelback, Evanescence) or Hot AC light-bands that occassionally bring a catchy hit (The Fray, Augustana, Snow Patrol). Again, that's not to say some harder rock has hit big, it does, and I do mean it does happen, and it could happen for BB, but very rarely these days.
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