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Dance Music: Coming Around Again?

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Have you folks noticed many titles on recent Pop and Hot 100 charts are also on the Dance Radio Airplay chart? The top 4 songs at Dance radio ("Don't Cha", "Behind These Hazel Eyes", "We Belong Together", and "Pon de Replay") also happen to be huge hits at Mainstream CHR. And "These Words" by Natasha Bedingfield is up five spaces to #9 this week. Just thought you might be interested to know!
 
> Have you folks noticed many titles on recent Pop and Hot 100
> charts are also on the Dance Radio Airplay chart? The top 4
> songs at Dance radio ("Don't Cha", "Behind These Hazel
> Eyes", "We Belong Together", and "Pon de Replay") also
> happen to be huge hits at Mainstream CHR. And "These Words"
> by Natasha Bedingfield is up five spaces to #9 this week.
> Just thought you might be interested to know!

And it's been like that for quite some time. When the DANCE versions of songs are at the top of the chr charts, give me a call.<P ID="signature">______________
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I can understand where you're coming from with the Kelly Clarkson song and the Mariah Carey song. But why would dance remixes of pop songs ever be near the top of the Hot 100?

I would think dance fans would be happy enough that the Hot 100 contains the commercially available single versions of their favorite hits. (I know I am!) If hope everyone's not holding their breath waiting for club mixes to appear on the Hot 100!

> When the DANCE
> versions of songs are at the top of the chr charts, give me
> a call.
>
 
> I can understand where you're coming from with the Kelly
> Clarkson song and the Mariah Carey song. But why would
> dance remixes of pop songs ever be near the top of the Hot
> 100?

That's exactly the problem. Dance continues to get little to no exposure on mainstream radio. The fact is, Kelly Clarkson is not a dance artist... nor Mariah Carey, although I'll openly agree that Mariah has been generous and supportive enough to work with David Morales on producing a lot of dance versions of her singles. It's been nice to see that a lot of Mariah's "remixes" actually wind up being brand new productions, with new melodies and new vocals recorded exlusively for the remixes; rather than the typical sped up/rehashing of the original that tends to commonly happen with other songs. So, hurray to the fact that some of these artists are supporting dance with remix versions... but boo to the powers that be that ignore or chose to avoid dance.

>
> I would think dance fans would be happy enough that the Hot
> 100 contains the commercially available single versions of
> their favorite hits. (I know I am!) If hope everyone's not
> holding their breath waiting for club mixes to appear on the
> Hot 100!
>

Not trying to sound negative, but most dance fans would rather be happy seeing songs from dance artists having success on the Hot 100 chart, rather than the other way around. DHT and Crazy Frog are a start (and more than dance fans have had to cheer about for the past couple of years), but we all know dance could use a lot more exposure.
 
Music is all cyclical, ya know? We had Paula, Janet, C+C Music Factory, et al putting out dance stuff in the late 80's and early 90's and then grunge came...and then we had the Spice Girls and everyone else in the mid 90's...and then hip-hop/R&B and adult-friendly pop-rock came along...now we have DHT and Rihanna, etc. These cycles have been happening forever and it probably will continue to happen forever. Well, at least until terrestrial radio and record companies devolve into irrelevance. (Could be any day now.)
 
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