The River shifted one-third of its playlist in late February, but the size of the playlist remains about the same: 240 songs. Yes, the playlist is just 240 songs. The replacements don't seem fundamentally different from the songs they dropped stylistically. The station swapped many songs from the same artist. Dropped, say, "Summer of 69" for "Run to You" or "I'm on Fire" for "Dancing in the Dark" or "Don't Stand So Close to Me" with "Da Do Do Do De Da Da Da" or "My Best Friend's Girl" for "Shake it Up."
Songs dropped (about 80 total, including several Eagles songs): "Your Song," "Margaritaville," "Swingtown," "Maggie May," "Summer of '69," "Desperado," "Take Me Home Tonight," "I Love Rock n Roll," "Dancing in the Dark," "Living on a Prayer," "Hurts So Good," "Tempted," "Jump," "Caught Up In You," "Sledgehammer," "Small Town," "867-5309" "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," "Some Kind of Wonderful," "What I Like About You," "Pride," "Brass in Pocket" "Dont' Stand So Close To Me," "One Thing Leads to Another," "Love is Alive," "Still the One," "You May Be Right," "Start Me Up," "Reeling in the Years" "25 to 6 to 4," "Point of No Return," "Living Thing," "You Might Think," "Baby Hold On" "Do It Again" "Frankenstein," "Wild World," "Can't Get Enough" "Little Lies," "Movin' Out," "My Best Friend's Girl," "Addicted to Love," "Long Train Runnin' " and 37 other songs.
New songs: "Hollywood Nights," "Turn the Page," "Show Me the Way," "Heart of Glass," "Over the Hills and Far Away," "Ain't No Sunshine," "Rock 'n Me," "De Do Do Do De Da Da Da," "Run To You," "I'm on Fire," "Gimme 3 Steps," "School's Out," "Any Way You Want It," "Imagine," "I Shot the Sheriff," "Centerfold," "Rock On," That's All," "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic," "Everybody Wants You," Burning For You," "Separate Ways," "Southern Cross," "Shake It Up," "Too Much Time On My Hands," "Message in a Bottle," "Breakfast in America," "Waiting for a Girl Like You," ""Bad to the Bone," "Wheel in the Sky," "I Won't Back Down," "Smoke in the Water," "After Midnight," "Still the Same,' "The Chain," "Band on the Run,' "Only the Good Die Young," "Juke Box Hero," "Dancing in the Street,' "Urgent," "Black Betty," "Gold Dust Woman," "Turn to Stone," "The Best of Times" and about 35 others.
According to Mediabase, ten of these 80 "new" songs have never been played before on the River: "Smoke in the Water," "Dancing in the Streets" (Van Halen version), 'After Midnight," "The Best of Times," "Love is a Battlefield," "Purple Haze," "Amanda," "Baby, What a Big Surprise," "Run Through the Jungle," "Turn Me Loose."
