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Cleveland Radio September Ratings
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and for Akron, even though it only goes to August, I'm assuming September's ratings will be close to the same and out any day now: Radio Industry News, Radio Show Prep, Radio Promotions, Radio Station Data, Podcast News
Some of the recent Hip-Hop/Rap tunes that WAKS plays have not been as catchy as in the past.
What kind of music produced within the last 10 years has been worth listening to? Talent and composition went out the door since then.
Very little of my music library exceeds past 2010. 8 songs are from 2011, 1 song from 2012, 1 song from 2013, 11 songs from 2014, which is that U2 album that was given to iTunes users for free, and 1 song from 2016 (Svengoolie Stomp by Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon). Everything else ranges from 1947 to 2010, with the majority being from the 80's, 90's & 00's.
Maybe iHeart should overhaul 96.5's KISS-FM and expand the Sacramento KISS 107.9 format here. '90s and 2000s music is a nice mix of music - WKDD's 90s Weekends are usually must-listens for me - and, if top 40 isn't where the ratings are, maybe they should tweak the playlist a bit. I wonder if they still have those old artist-promoting hourly identifiers that they'd be able to dust off and reuse if they repurpose KISS-FM into a nostalgia station.
Ooh, and on April Fool's Day, they could play the old "In case you were wondering, WKDD Akron has moved" hourly identifiers!
Ooh, and on April Fool's Day, they could play the old "In case you were wondering, WKDD Akron has moved" hourly identifiers!
KISS is an iHeart flagship format - it goes nowhere.
iHeart usually has these standard formats in most markets:
News/talk (w/ some combo of Beck, Travis & Sexton, Hannity, Coast 2 Coast AM)
Fox Sports Radio, with more and more adding "Gambler" stuff from VISN
KISS (or some similar moniker) CHR/Top 40 (w/ Elvis Duran and/or Ryan Seacrest)
Some form of rock station
Country (usually w/ Bobby Bones)
A female skewing soft rock/classic hits station
Are there deviations here and there, yes, but by and large this is your basic iHeart template for Anytown USA, and it's been that way for a looooong time.
And BTW - Cleveland has all of the above, and has for a looooong time (with WARF 1350 - FSR/Gambler - being slotted in with the Cleveland stations in recent years)
Snowdogg88 wrote: What kind of music produced within the last 10 years has been worth listening to? Talent and composition went out the door since then.
Post Malone and The Weekend are two who have been putting out well composed and constructed Pop music.
Ringo Starr has his third E.P. out this year, and the first song "World Go Around" is good. Last year, Ringo's "Teach Me To Tango" was good too. I know young people (18 - 24 years old) who like both of these songs.
The Alternative Rock band Weezer continues to put out good music. Their latest is the song "Records".
From Northeast Ohio, The Black Keys have a recent release out that has the catchy "Wild Child" on it as well as "It Ain't Over" which reminds me that good music "Ain't Over" yet. It may just take a little more "work" and listening to find them.
Post Malone and The Weekend are two who have been putting out well composed and constructed Pop music.
Ringo Starr has his third E.P. out this year, and the first song "World Go Around" is good. Last year, Ringo's "Teach Me To Tango" was good too. I know young people (18 - 24 years old) who like both of these songs.
The Alternative Rock band Weezer continues to put out good music. Their latest is the song "Records".
From Northeast Ohio, The Black Keys have a recent release out that has the catchy "Wild Child" on it as well as "It Ain't Over" which reminds me that good music "Ain't Over" yet. It may just take a little more "work" and listening to find them.
NONE of them have been catchy to me, in the past, present or future. But then again, I'm an old, white guy.
I didn't know hip-hop/rap was catchy. It all sounds the same to me, of course I never listen to it for more than a few seconds. That is about as much as I can take.
I can take some light/clean rap, like from Will Smith. Everything else gives me a headache or makes me uncomfortable.
Excluding Ringo Starr, who I didn't even know was still producing songs, I'm not interested in any of the other artists that you've mentioned. The only song from Weezer that's in my collection is Beverly Hills, although that came out back in 2005.
I mostly listen to soft rock and some pop music that I grew up with, though I do listen to a few select songs from Alternative bands from back in the day, such as In The End (Linkin Park), Wake Me Up When September Ends (Green Day), Ain't It Fun (Paramore), and a few others.
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Like Michael Bublé.
VintageMac
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Hopefully there's no Milli Vanilli!
I listened to that album. What a snoozefest, not a catchy tune on it anywhere. I was even thinking that there wasn't a tune on it that was worthy of radio airplay.
Old white male has become persona non grata in this country.
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