"Like a G6 no longer a (big) hit on the east coast

[Wildstyle K]

Either I am coincidentally just happening to check only the stations on the east coast that have stopped or aren't playing it much, or this song is, for some reason, no longer a hit on the east coast. I'll check more rhythmics and chr's to see if "there's any luck".

I'm a little lazy right now to research too much further, so I'm really hoping someone else comes along and shows me proof that I am absolutely incorrect here.

I must've been "out of the loop" for quite a while to not notice this song become a "thing of the past" on east coast hit stations, at least on the ones I've check so far that either suddenly stopped playing "Like a G6", or are playing it so few times that it will most likely not be seen within a three hour list period.

 

[acesup]

Perhaps because the song is over six months old and it doesn't test as a recurrent?

 

[Wildstyle K]

Perhaps because the song is over six months old and it doesn't test as a recurrent?

The news just keeps getting worse!

And here I was thinking it would be big enough to make it to "old school status"!

Oh well.

 

[radiolives]

I haven't heard this song in a good long minute. Im sure the CHR's here on the East Coast still play it just not so often.

 

[Wildstyle K]

Well I still have the luxury of enjoying it here on the western coast. Maybe that's why I was so shocked when I discovered it's "disappearance" from east coast radio. I'm sure WPOW still plays it as though.

I actually thought it would become sort of a classic, like the "da dip" - Freak Nasty or 69 Boyz "tootsie roll" of this generation, but no. Instead, its become like the Inoj "love you down" of this generation - where it was hot for a while then pretty much "vanished" for the most part. Well, at least it's still a hot mixshow song.

 

[wpxt]

In my area here in Southern Maine 97.9 WJBQ never really played Like a G6 even when it was new but they have been playing Far East Movement's new song Rocketeer a lot. The other CHR in my area Kiss 95.3 WSKX played it daily for months but as of this year it has played hardly ever.

 

[bchristi]

I heard "Like A G6" for the first time on my local CHR way back in May. The song had a burst of initial popularity then it dropped off and then came back full force in late summer/early fall. It was a great summer anthem for 2010, but is a bit played out at this point.

 

[jsu5381m]

It was never a hit in Huntsville....That's becuase WZYP never even bothered to play it.

 

[atlantaboy]

It was never a hit in Huntsville....That's becuase WZYP never even bothered to play it.

I think the Cumulus block kind of avoided it

 

[Wildstyle K]

I was shocked when this song actually blew up - and in the U.S., too! Here in the west side, we still get to hear all three of the Fareast Movement's hits (I consider their first one a hit since the Baka Boyz used it in their Baka Boyz Allstar Hitmix show, and they were the sameones who said they "couldn't" play "we no speak americano" because it wasn't a hit yet, then did AS SOON as it became an established hit, so I assume that they really only play HITS..). Fareast Movement's first single never took off, but "girls on the dancefloor" blew up all over the west coast, and then I guess "Like a G6" was what officially put them all over the map.

I kind of think Ya Boy "We run L.A." should've received at least the same amount of attention Fareast movement did with "girls on the dancefloor". Both songs are big enough to currently be at recurrent status in L.A., especially on KPWR and KIIS. KAMP was all over the Ya Boy and Fareast Movement single in summer 2009 as well.

 

[ThatGuyOnTheRadio]

Here are the Top 30 (in order) CHR/M's playing Like a G6.


WFBC-FM * -- Greenville, SC
WXLK-FM * -- Roanoke, VA
WFLZ-FM * -- Tampa
WYKS-FM * -- Gainesville
WRVW-FM * -- Nashville
KTFM-FM * -- San Antonio
WSSX-FM * -- Charleston, SC
WLAN-FM * -- Lancaster
WBVD-FM * -- Melbourne
WSNX-FM * -- Grand Rapids
KREV-FM -- San Francisco
WQNQ-FM -- Asheville, NC
WFKS-FM * -- Jacksonville
WNRW-FM * -- Louisville
KKPN-FM * -- Corpus Christi,
WQEN-FM * -- Birmingham
WHKF-FM * -- Harrisburg
KXXM-FM * -- San Antonio
KHFI-FM * -- Austin
WERO-FM * -- Greenville, NC
WXXX-FM * -- Burlington, VT
WAPE-FM * -- Jacksonville
WPXY-FM * -- Rochester
KFRH-FM * -- Las Vegas
KDHT-FM * -- Denver
WDJQ-FM * -- Canton, OH
KKHH-FM * -- Houston
WXRK-FM * -- New York
WKFS-FM * -- Cincinnati
KCHZ-FM * -- Kansas City

 

[Wildstyle K]

Either I am coincidentally just happening to check only the stations on the east coast that have stopped or aren't playing it much, or this song is, for some reason, no longer a hit on the east coast.

I'm a little lazy right now to research too much further, so I'm really hoping someone else comes along and shows me proof that I am absolutely incorrect here.

Well don't call me spoiled, but I really love it when I get what I want! 

It's still a HIT!