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Love Is Gone now on 106.1 BLI

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Last night, there was tropo and I could hear BLI, Party 105, and many Long Island stations here in New Jersey. I heard Love Is Gone on BLI yesterday evening. They announced that it was "brand new". It's been playing on Party 105 for months. At least that song's playing on one more 50000 watt stick :)
 
Thats good news, but since BLI often flirts with Dance off and on, they should have been playing it a long time ago. Anyone know if 104.7 WSPK is still dance friendly? One of my CHRs picked up Love is Gone about a month and a half ago, but they play quite a bit of Dance so thats no surprise. I guess my other CHR is playing Ida Core.
 
Nick said:
Last night, there was tropo and I could hear BLI, Party 105, and many Long Island stations here in New Jersey. I heard Love Is Gone on BLI yesterday evening. They announced that it was "brand new". It's been playing on Party 105 for months. At least that song's playing on one more 50000 watt stick :)
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Heck..that song is 2 years old! ::) Why these stations are calling it "brand new" is beyond me and I believe calls should be made wondering who mandated this? Heck, I've said it on the the unofficial Pulse 87 board too... http://pulse87.yuku.com/topic/425 But for a station like 'BLI, I will admit that this is something in the right direction...and to that, other CHR's should get on "Love Is Gone". Only Pulse 87, Party 105, Energy 92.7, C89.5, Z88.9 and Super 91.7 should go with "Everytime We Touch" or "Delirious".

And regarding K-104 up in Poughkeepsie, I USED to get that station since the signal was mega-strong (from NYC to Albany...even that old sweeper..serving New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and a little bitty piece of Vermont), and they were good when they were dance friendly back in the 90s. But alas, those dang Caribbean "pirate stations" along White Plains Road in the Bronx are blocking the reception! :mad:
 
What's up guy's new member here. Love dance music and listen to it all the time.
Any way's I think the song is old to us dance fanatics. But to everybody else it's
brand new. One of my personal favs really gets the crowd pumped. I wish they played
it down here in northwest florida. :-X
 
This issue comes up every once in awhile and I'm still amazed that many don't get it. Radio doesn't care how old a song is, especially in dance. If it hasn't been a national pop hit or it hasn't been played on their station it's new music.

The problem most people have with this is that to them it's old news. But the fact remains that your a super-fan and 99.9% of everyone else isn't. So they don't know the difference nor do they care like you do. It's just something your going to have to live with it or continue to waste your breath complaining on something that doesn't matter to those that do it.

For me, I'm happy to see them playing any "dance" song to people that normally wouldn't get to hear it.

jp
 
JohnParker said:
This issue comes up every once in awhile and I'm still amazed that many don't get it. Radio doesn't care how old a song is, especially in dance. If it hasn't been a national pop hit or it hasn't been played on their station it's new music.

The problem most people have with this is that to them it's old news. But the fact remains that your a super-fan and 99.9% of everyone else isn't. So they don't know the difference nor do they care like you do. It's just something your going to have to live with it or continue to waste your breath complaining on something that doesn't matter to those that do it.

For me, I'm happy to see them playing any "dance" song to people that normally wouldn't get to hear it.

jp
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Agree 100%... It doesnt matter how old the song is.. The song slowly started in dance clubs and made its way into hip hop/mash up clubs and became popular cause its a catchy song... It kinda has a "story"... just like World Hold On... Look at the production of Love Is Gone... thats one hard baseline.. and a pop station is playing it... not a watered down remix of it... Thats great in my book
 
I guess it's like the Everytime We Touch of 2008. EWT catapulted up the dance charts, then naturally fell down the dance charts till CHR picked it up, then it peaked on both the dance and CHR charts. It may piss off the dance stations to keep one song in heavy rotation for 4-6 months. It definitely had potential when Power 96 in Miami had it as #1 for weeks.

As for referring to this song as new music on BLI, there are more people in its coverage area who know that Love Is Gone is old because they've been hearing it on Party 105 and Pulse 87. It might not be as bad to refer to it as "new music" in a market like St Louis where the closest dance station is Giant 90.9 in Indianapolis!
 
Nick said:
As for referring to this song as new music on BLI, there are more people in its coverage area who know that Love Is Gone is old because they've been hearing it on Party 105 and Pulse 87. It might not be as bad to refer to it as "new music" in a market like St Louis where the closest dance station is Giant 90.9 in Indianapolis!
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Without knowing the actual number of people that listen to both or all three stations the point is impossible to prove. But I'd imagine that the number of people that listen to BLI and have never listened to either Party or Pulse is very large.

jp
 
Giant 90.9 is only Dance for half the day, we do have Orbital 931-hd-2 thats all dance, but too bad no one can hear it.
 
"new music" is a reference to a station's built in daily loyal listeners, which is usually the majority for big ticket successful NYC stations;
if they haven't played a record yet, when they get around to playing it, it's 'new music' to that built in following;
all the other obsessive mumbo jumbo ("but it's 6 MONTHS OLD!!!!!")don't mean a thing to the casual listener; that's what makes them 'casual'.
 
Z100 once had Lucas Prata-And She Said in top 10
BLI had As The Rush Comes in rotation when KTU was playing it
 
The NY metro Chr;s (Z100, WBLI & WSPK) have always been among the most dance friendly CHR's in the country. BLI currently has Cascada's "What Hurts The most" as the #1 most played song on the station with over 100 spins, and is also playing "Because the Night" from Cascada. BLI, z100 & K104 were among the first stations on "Everytime We Touch" playing it well before other CHR's, and it was actually BLI's most played song in 2006. I think they also played "Miracle" more than any other HR and has that song among their powers for weeks. "Love is Gone" is being played on K104 as well and Enur "calarbia" is being played on all three as well.
 
"Love Is Gone" is very close to cracking the Top 10 at Q-102 in Philly. A numberof other influential CHR/Pop stations have added it in the past week including 101.3 KDWB Minneapolis, 104.7 Kiss FM Phoenix, and 96.5 kiss FM Cleveland,
 
it's the new 'token' dance record of the season, it seems...how did this suddenly happen? the record peaked in the clubs a half year ago, it's certainly not based on sales, is this a 'testing' record,or were a lot of favors granted?
 
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