4000 songs?? 4000 DIFFERENT songs?? Because duplicate titles don't count, obviously.
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4000 songs?? 4000 DIFFERENT songs?? Because duplicate titles don't count, obviously.
I did a BDS run on just the Spanish language stations and got over 4,000 songs!
If you look at the total different English language titles played in LA ranging from jazz to old school to r&b to CHR to AC and country and and Contemporary Christian and hymns and classical and rock and alternative and rhythmic and classic hits you are going to be over 10 thousand or so.
So, if you're language-neutral, that's 14,000 plus.
And, even with, what, 14,000 different songs in the LA market, people are looking to Pandora, Spotify etc.
And they looked to CDs, cassettes and records before.
Oh ...... OK I was actually speaking to the great "depth" of tracks readily available on SoCal music radio stations. IOW a mile wide and an inch deep doesn't quite cut it. As to "you get songs and genres you'd never hear on any one single Sirius channel' .... Big ....... Whoop ...... De ...... Dooo
And how many people would want to sample all the stations?? Hell, one of the most burned out tracks that immediately comes to mind is "I Melt With You" which can readily be heard on a daily basis on probably these stations: KLOS, KYSR, KRTH, KSWD, maybe KBIG, maybe KROQ, and on about 75% of every AAA station that I have sampled.
Amen, there's a reason why though my feeling is its the audience's fault, not the radio stations' fault for providing this great array of interesting and diverse music
The purpose is to get ratings and make money, not to win over music lovers. The serious music lovers already own the complete works of all the artists they love. Hearing them on the radio won't change a thing. That's not what or who we program for. My point is if someone's tired of hearing certain songs (which the p1s all love), there are ways to do it. But as long as the listeners continue to love those songs, the stations will continue to play them over and over. And that's just how it is.
Funny, "I Melt With You" was hardly played as a top track in 1983 and rightfully so, based on it's terrible peak position of 78, but it's played to death today, as if it were a #1. Personally, it's an ok song, compared to what else was really popular then.
Heck, I'd bet KRTH didn't even play that song in '83, when they were contemporary, but they sure played everything else.
They're not playing it based on chart position. They don't care how it charted 30 years ago. They care about what their listeners want to hear now. Obviously, their listeners LOVE that song. Otherwise, they wouldn't play it.
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Do people like that song now who did not like it in 1983? If listeners truly "love" I Melt With You, why did KRTH never play the song between 1983 and 2013? Did thousands of people in 2014-15 suddenly decide it's a good song?
I think a lot of people like it now as a "new song." Not because they heard it when it was new.
Why do so many people today seem to enjoy "Miracle of 34th Street?" Or "The Wizard of Oz?"
Didn't the song enjoy a revival in popularity when Burger King used it in commercials in the 90s?
A year earlier, in 1982, Tempted from Squeeze went nowhere. 33 years later, it's as popular as Modern English.
That's not a good comparison. Those movies are from 1939 and 1947 and have endured the test of time ever since. They are genuine masterpieces. "I Melt With You" is not a masterpiece. It does not sound "new" at all for 2015. It's old new wave from the early 80's and has enjoyed a recent resurgence on some stations, like KRTH for some apparent reason, I'll never understand. As Steve has said above, why the sudden appeal to a low-charting song? To myself and the vast majority, it's just an 80's classic.
"I Melt With You" would be on my playlist, but I'd rotate it just a couple times a week, if that.
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I just heard that on the Muzak in my local grocery store.
The vast majority didn't hear it when it was new. If you're hearing something for the first time, it's new.
Yes it is, but it's STILL an 80's song, always will be.
If you're going to look at 32-year-old charts (and you shouldn't to determine appeal today), you should be looking at KROQ, not Billboard. As far back as 1988, "I Melt With You" was a huge song on KROQ's Flashback 500:
http://www.rocklists.com/alltime1.html
Which is one reason why KRTH plays it. The other reason is the current audience wants to hear it. A lot.
WHY they want to hear it doesn't matter. Why ask why?
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