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How on earth are they one of the top stations in the city? Have you seen their playlist? They literally play the same eight songs every single night! Last night, they played the same song within a 20-minute period! LOL!

http://yes.com/station/WQHT

I know the ol' saying "play the hits" but you've got to ease up that rotation a little... I mean, is this station catering to the ADD demographic or what?
 
I think with Hip-Hop and R&B you can do that though, alot of the listeners to the station usually want to hear certain songs again. So called "bringin' it back," just to get the listeners another listen. I've heard Funkmaster Flex play the same song like 45 minutes apart and sometimes I agree thats too close (if it's a horrible song). But certain new songs, especially hip-hop songs, we want to "bring it back" to hear the lyrics again.

I probably did a terrible job of explaining but take it for what it's worth. :-\

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they play alot of the same songs over and over and thats kindo of annoying, but every once in a while they'll throw in a song you completely forgot about like Junior Mafia's "Playas Anthem." Their midday show is solid, Chubby Chub has the urban dad image working and Mr Cee is arguable the most knowledgeable dj in the country. Their have that afternoon girl, I forget her name but I know she's big and the kids tune in to her, Angie Martinez, I think. She's got a nice style and always has interesting guests whom she interviews well. Their mix show at 5 is awesome, drive home and listen only to music, no djs even if you are likely to hear a song on there at 5:20 that played at 4:30 and might play again at 5:40 and 6:20. Typically the song is hot. they mix alot of remixes and other rarities into that mix. then at 7 you have funk master flex. He lets you "air it out" which is basically the radio version of blaxsploitation. Overall a great image with smart programming.

Can't speak for their mornign show though, I always listened to Star and Busckwild, and then my mp3 player.
 
Foe Paw said:
How on earth are they one of the top stations in the city? Have you seen their playlist? They literally play the same eight songs every single night! Last night, they played the same song within a 20-minute period! LOL!

http://yes.com/station/WQHT

I know the ol' saying "play the hits" but you've got to ease up that rotation a little... I mean, is this station catering to the ADD demographic or what?
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assume that was a mistake!

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Listening to the old MusicRadio 77 WABC, their playlists featured the same songs every 2 and one half hours. But the listeners liked it.





Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy
 
Kevin L. Sealy said:
Listening to the old MusicRadio 77 WABC, their playlists featured the same songs every 2 and one half hours. But the listeners liked it.





Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy
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WEll kevin remember back then songs were on average a lot shorter than the songs heard on Hot, plus people had not been brainwashed by the idea that they hated repitition back then, it had not really been identified as repition yet!.
 
These days, most people listening to HOT 97 have short attention spans to begin with. Therefore, tell them that they heard the same 8 songs over and over again and they'll turn you in for fraud. But nonetheless I agree. I really don't know how HOT 97 or POWER 105 for that matter is amongst the top 10 in in NYC, being that there's nothing "NEW YORK" about the hiphop music they play these days.

HOT 97 sounds like a better fit anywhere SOUTH of the Mason-Dixon line, save for their occasional reggaton outbursts, as they feature very little NEW YORK-centric hiphop artists. Of those that are still left, those NYC-based artists themselves have taken on that "Dirty South" sound, leaving many of us who grew up on hiphop scratching our heads. I still can't believe that what's on the radio now evolved from the likes of a music that was once synonymous with De La Soul, KRS-One, and Afrika Bambaataa.

And yet, they found enough market justification to put on a Regional Mexican station over an old school hiphop station. Go figure.
 
Might be a tad to repetitive at times, but generally the short spacing you speak of between songs, one of the times the song is played is during a mix show. Currently the songs in the highest rotation at Hot 97 are in the low to mid 90's in spins for the week according to mediabase, they go higher than that from time to time. Power's power rotation songs are in the middle 80's where CHR Z100 is in the mid to upper 90's. Their are quite a few CHR's and CHR/Rhythmic stations who are well over 100 and into the 110's in their power rotation songs.
 
Apparently they're not just playing the same eight songs - but now every single song features R. Kelly on them! I don't think he even has his own track in the playlist, only "reeeee-mixes" of current songs. Get your own album, ya freeloader!
 
HOT 97 sounds best on weekends. It seems that is when they mix in some older songs that don't get played in the normal rotation.
 
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