"grunge" on Hot AC

[tflo]

Hot ACs WSYR & WRMF in FL occasionally spin Nirvana ("Come As You Are") & Stone Temple Pilots ("Plush", "Interstate Love Song").

thoughts on Hot ACs / Adult Top 40s playing "grunge" acts?

 

[SilverTonicFree]

Hot ACs WSYR & WRMF in FL occasionally spin Nirvana ("Come As You Are") & Stone Temple Pilots ("Plush", "Interstate Love Song").

thoughts on Hot ACs / Adult Top 40s playing "grunge" acts?

You have to think of the core audience of Hot AC. A 35 year old woman was born in 1975. She was in high school from 89-93 and College 93-97. That's core Grunge time. Now she could have listened to pop radio or alt rock during that time. It's a toss up. With more and more Hot AC stations going 90's and Now or just 2000-Now, it's up to the market to say if there's room for grunge in the playlist.

 

[RMarino]

You have to think of the core audience of Hot AC. A 35 year old woman was born in 1975. She was in high school from 89-93 and College 93-97. That's core Grunge time. Now she could have listened to pop radio or alt rock during that time. It's a toss up. With more and more Hot AC stations going 90's and Now or just 2000-Now, it's up to the market to say if there's room for grunge in the playlist.

I like your example. I'm not a woman, but I am 35. The girls I knew in college listened to either CHR or alternative. Even CHR, at least the one that was big where I lived back then (WAPE Jacksonville) played "Come as You Are" and "Interstate Love Song" which of course is the very mainstream fringe of grunge.

 

[SilverTonicFree]

You have to think of the core audience of Hot AC. A 35 year old woman was born in 1975. She was in high school from 89-93 and College 93-97. That's core Grunge time. Now she could have listened to pop radio or alt rock during that time. It's a toss up. With more and more Hot AC stations going 90's and Now or just 2000-Now, it's up to the market to say if there's room for grunge in the playlist.

I like your example. I'm not a woman, but I am 35. The girls I knew in college listened to either CHR or alternative. Even CHR, at least the one that was big where I lived back then (WAPE Jacksonville) played "Come as You Are" and "Interstate Love Song" which of course is the very mainstream fringe of grunge.

Sure, and with CHR's like Kiss FM in Dallas, and Q102 in Philly throwing "Santeria" by Sublime into their gold library (I know... not grunge, but Alternative), it shows that the audience from that age range didn't necessarily listen to En Vogue or TLC or TuPac during that timeframe.