CUMULUS keeps ignoring "Super Bass" !

[jason1589]

Super Bass is at no9 on CHR and no CUMULUS CHR has ever played the song yet! And then they wonder why i93 in Dallas and so many of their CHRs flop so hard.

 

[wdb2003]

You should already know Cumulus has the worst CHR stations in the world. You hardly hear rap on their CHR stations anymore. Even their Rhythmic CHR's are waterdown. Look at how they play Pitbulls songs either overnight or not at all. Plus their running Billy Bush at night. So conservative. Cant wait til they take over those Citadel Media stations LOL. I know they are gonna ruin KKWD in OKC which is my favorite.

 

[jason1589]

It is REALLY SCARY they're gonna take over so many stations by the end of the year!

 

[wdb2003]

I know sad enough like someone mention Clear Channel is gonna look good at the end of this. People are gonna lose their jobs and the ones currently working for Cumulus are gonna have more workload for crappy pay. I know Maurice DeVoe is handling their Urban programming plus PD of KCHZ in Kansas City. Not sure if hes handling the CHR programming or not

 

[atlantaboy]

They added The Show Goes On and Party Rock Anthem both in the last couple weeks, so I wouldn't be surprised if they added Super Bass in another couple months

 

[the golden boy]

I'm not surprised. It's Cumulus.

 

[Wildstyle K]

HOW IRONIC!

I was just thinking about this.... LAST NIGHT! But I didn't want to mention it because I was too lazy to research its actual chart position before posting. I figured "either the stations I'm listening to are really cool to play extra things like "Super Bass", or it must really be a hit". I wasn't sure which part was true, but.... I'll take your word for it that it must really be a big song because.... to be quite honest, I'm not really crazy enough about it to research how well it's doing.

However:

Some of you know I'm a big booty bass fan (thanks to the dirty south), and if this is what it takes to keep any form of booty bass, electro-bass, or bass music period... alive, then I'm a supporter of the song. The "bass community" group on facebook despises the song though. I think it's ok, but not the best example of modernized bass music.


ANYWAY, I guess the good thing about Cumulus taking over more chr stations and converting them into less hit music is that since a bunch of stations will sound / "look" more alike playlist wise, then the places with Cumulus chr's right now will no longer look "odd and different" and it will become part of the norm. If everybody starts excluding hits, then people can no longer complain since everyone else is doing the same thing and that is now the new norm, while the other cutting edge stations are the "new, odd minority".

Not sure how I'd feel about everyone adopting a Cumulus top 20 currents playlist instead of a complete top 40, though. I already think 40 is too limited... but If this takes off and the full top 40 playlist style becomes old fashioned, then a lot of record labels will have to depend primarily on mix shows or internet radio play to get their songs heard. I guess Satellite Radio would be another avenue - as long as they don't also eventually adopt the top 20 style as well...

Or maybe I'm thinking too deep into this. You never know, though. It COULD be the new trend...

 

[wdb2003]

No your fine with your thoughts KDM. It just that Cumulus is one of the cheapest low run radio companies in the US. And knowing their history alot of stations that sound good now Cumulus is gonna sprinkle that magic they call conserative playlist on them. I guess one thing I give Clear Channel credit on is their CHR stations. They know how to bring it despite being jukeboxes. KJYO in OKC sounds good for a CHR station in a midsize market. I93 in Dallas from what I hear is conserative too. But you would figure in a market like Dallas their playlist would be a but more rhythmic with the demos. But if look at it all CHR's are choosey with music. Every CHR I could think of was playing Evacuate the Dancefloor by Cascada but not KIIS or KAMP here in Los Angeles. Me personally I can only take so much of Nikki's voice

 

[sdh483]

Cumulus does fine with other formats. They're doing pretty good with KRBE in Houston.

 

[jason1589]

WWWQ-FM Atlanta (99.7 FM)
Top 40
Owner: Cumulus Media Partners LLC PD: Rob Roberts MD: Rob Roberts

lw: Jun 24 - Jun 30 TW: Jul 1 - Jul 7
lw TW Artist Title TW lw Move Aud
2 1 BRUNO MARS Lazy Song 93 90 3 1.1476
3 2 ONEREPUBLIC Good Life 93 90 3 1.1629
1 3 LADY GAGA The Edge Of Glory 90 92 -2 1.0964
5 4 ADELE Rolling In The Deep 84 84 0 1.0483
4 5 BLACK EYED PEAS Just Can't Get Enough 80 89 -9 0.9618
8 6 KATY PERRY Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) 64 54 10 0.868
6 7 BRITNEY SPEARS Till The World Ends 59 58 1 0.7339
7 8 MAROON 5 Never Gonna Leave This Bed 54 55 -1 0.716
9 9 JENNIFER LOPEZ F/PITBULL On The Floor 53 53 0 0.6664
10 10 KATY PERRY E.T. 48 51 -3 0.6141
11 11 HOT CHELLE RAE Tonight Tonight 38 36 2 0.4499
12 12 JASON DERULO Don't Wanna Go Home 35 34 1 0.3808
17 13 LMFAO Party Rock Anthem 32 29 3 0.3725
15 14 PITBULL Give Me Everything f/Ne-Yo 32 30 2 0.3853
19 15 THE SCRIPT For The First Time 32 29 3 0.4015
18 16 TAYLOR SWIFT The Story Of Us 30 29 1 0.3746
13 17 RIHANNA S&M 29 31 -2 0.3517
14 18 KE$HA Blow 25 30 -5 0.2796
21 19 BRITNEY SPEARS I Wanna Go 25 22 3 0.295
26 20 LUPE FIASCO The Show Goes On 24 16 8 0.3343
23 21 CHRIS BROWN She Ain't You 21 18 3 0.1936
20 22 NICOLE SCHERZINGER Right There 21 26 -5 0.201
22 23 JENNIFER LOPEZ I'm Into You f/Lil Wayne 19 19 0 0.164
24 24 NEON TREES Animal 19 17 2 0.2221
62 25 MAROON 5 F/CHRISTINA AGUILERA Moves Like Jagger 17 5 12 0.1632
27 26 RIHANNA California King Bed 16 16 0 0.1866
36 27 BEYONCE Best Thing I Never Had 15 10 5 0.1716
28 28 THE SCRIPT Breakeven 14 15 -1 0.1761
25 29 TRAIN Hey, Soul Sister 14 17 -3 0.1614
38 30 TAIO CRUZ Dynamite 13 10 3 0.1769
40 31 FAR EAST MOVEMENT Rocketeer f/Ryan Tedder 13 9 4 0.1376
16 32 CEE LO GREEN F**k You (Forget You) 13 29 -16 0.1424
39 33 USHER More 13 10 3 0.1386
46 34 ADAM LAMBERT Whataya Want From Me 12 8 4 0.1465
29 35 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS Tonight f/Ludacris 11 14 -3 0.1472
32 36 KINGS OF LEON Use Somebody 11 12 -1 0.1615
33 37 PINK F**kin' Perfect (Perfect) 11 12 -1 0.1271
42 38 USHER OMG f/will.i.am 11 9 2 0.0923
30 39 ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS Gives You Hell 10 13 -3 0.0629
43 40 BOYS LIKE GIRLS Love Drunk 10 8 2 0.1694
37 41 CHRIS BROWN Yeah 3x 10 10 0 0.1485
47 42 MAROON 5 Misery 10 8 2 0.1922
31 43 KRIS ALLEN Live Like We're Dying 9 13 -4 0.0962
44 44 FLO RIDA Club Can't Handle Me f/DGuetta 9 8 1 0.1001
45 45 DAVID GUETTA Sexy Chick f/Akon 9 8 1 0.1164
34 46 NELLY Just A Dream 9 11 -2 0.1382
64 47 OWL CITY Fireflies 9 5 4 0.1464
53 48 THEORY OF A DEADMAN Not Meant To Be 9 7 2 0.1173
58 49 USHER F/PITBULL DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love 9 6 3 0.1347
50 50 TAIO CRUZ Break Your Heart f/Ludacris 8 7 1 0.086

 

[Wildstyle K]

Cumulus does fine with other formats. They're doing pretty good with KRBE in Houston.

Well I guess it's just Atl. But still, if what I mentioned above does become the new trend, at least it will make Atl chr look normal in comparison to other markets.

I haven't said anything, but I'm very shocked at the move WWVA 105.7/96.7 has made to start adding in "extra" songs in addition to being sort of edgy! It's surprising not only for Atlanta, but even for ClearChannel! However, their weekend mixshows are still too mediocre. If WWVA keeps things up with how they are programming their music, they could become almost as good as WPOW. WPOW may not kill in ratings, but they sure do sound better than a majority of the American rhythmics, and I'm sure people visiting from overseas are happy with it.

It's true that many chr's do exclude hits, as mentioned earlier. But they don't exclude nearly as much as what has been missing from Atl airwaves for quite a few decades now (and keep in mind that WWVA can only be heard in certain areas). Without WWVA, there would be a lot more things missing from ATL chr than there are things missing from this small town Tucson, Az. that I'm currently in. I don't even think Tucson is big enough to deserve it's own market section here on these boards! I could post there, but I doubt many people would see it, and my post would probably be visible on the first board topics page into part of 2012! That's how slow it is... yet ClearChannel is programming KRQ as if Tucson is almost a major market! So yes, with that being said, I will give ClearCannel credit for the way they operate their chr's. The ATL. Cumulus playlist style chr would be perfect for Tucson, Az. It probably would not succeed in Phoenix though with the way things are currently there.

 

[carolinaradio]

Cumulus does fine with other formats. They're doing pretty good with KRBE in Houston.

Their Country and Classic Hits stations are good. It's just the CHRs that are so screwed up.

 

[atlantaboy]

Cumulus does fine with other formats. They're doing pretty good with KRBE in Houston.

How can you like KRBE/Houston and not like Q100? They're the same station lol

And I hate to keep bringing this up, but their conservative CHR playlists are working, at least in 90% of their markets - they're definitely rated higher than CBS's CHRs (if you average all the stations)

I agree Q100 is boring, but hey, if it works it works

 

[carolinaradio]

Their smaller market stations may work because they are probably the only CHR. Some of the larger market ones like KRBE do have heritage on their side. The I stations are a different story....

 

[atlantaboy]

Their smaller market stations may work because they are probably the only CHR. Some of the larger market ones like KRBE do have heritage on their side.

Most Cumulus small market stations are NOT the only CHR in the market - they're winning competitive battles against other CHRs - and as far as "having heritage on your side", you can say that about a lot of Clear Channel stations too

 

[radiolives]

On the Cumulus I 100 station here they play "Best I Ever Had" - Drake. And I think they played "Super Bass" but I could be wrong and might have heard that on the heritage CHR.

 

[jsu5381m]

Their smaller market stations may work because they are probably the only CHR. Some of the larger market ones like KRBE do have heritage on their side.

Most Cumulus small market stations are NOT the only CHR in the market - they're winning competitive battles against other CHRs - and as far as "having heritage on your side", you can say that about a lot of Clear Channel stations too

I wonder if non-radio geeks have complaned about heritage WZYP's too conservative playlist? I'm not sure they have even added Party Rock and they play the same recurrents I heard in high school.

 

[Wildstyle K]

There are non-radio geeks who do complain about this stuff, but... not on THIS forum. They complain mostly because they don't understand why certain things are happening on radio - but nevertheless, people do notice and talk about it from time to time.... amongst other things.

 

[atlantaboy]

I wonder if non-radio geeks have complaned about heritage WZYP's too conservative playlist? I'm not sure they have even added Party Rock and they play the same recurrents I heard in high school.

Huntsville, Alabama is such a conservative place though - to give Cumulus credit, most of their CHRs are in very conservative markets - IMO there is absolutely no way a Cumulus CHR (the way it's currently programmed) would do well in California, the Pacific Northwest, the Great Lakes Area of the Midwest, or New England

 

[jason1589]

SUPER BASS is at no7 right now and NO CUMULUS add yet!