Is it me or did Q100 change its jingles over the last couple of days? It's the same announcers but different sounding jingles. It sounds much better than before. I think they were using the old ones since they went from "Hot Hits" to"All the Hits" the first time back in the early 2000s. It looks like they are steering back to the "All the Hits" moniker lately. They are sounding great these days and seem to be sticking right on with the top 40 chart.
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New Q100 Jingles
- Thread starter RadioDoogie
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Yes, yes...sure. I'll give you that. But, for the LOVE OF CRAP, I still wish they would lay off the repeated recurrents of such an AC/HOT-AC nature....(Daughtry, Jason Mraz, The Fray, Shine Down, etc) and add more currents that are on the charts:
SELENA GOMEZ "Love You Like A Love Song"
T-PAIN FEAT/LILY ALLEN "5 O'Clock"
DRAKE "Headlines"
TIMBALAND "Pass At Me"
ALEXANDRA STAN "Mr. Saxobeat"
J. COLE "Workout"
.......ETC!
SELENA GOMEZ "Love You Like A Love Song"
T-PAIN FEAT/LILY ALLEN "5 O'Clock"
DRAKE "Headlines"
TIMBALAND "Pass At Me"
ALEXANDRA STAN "Mr. Saxobeat"
J. COLE "Workout"
.......ETC!
electroboy73 said:
They're an adult-leaning CHR, electroboy - just listen to the people calling in...they're all women in their late 20s/30s
I wish they'd shake up the songs in power rotation more often - I'm so sick of You Make Me Feel, Stereo Hearts, and Without You
Q is CHR not Rhythmic CHR. Those songs you have listed would be more of a WILD playlist.
The new jingles do sound a lot better... glad they finally updated them. They really should add "Atlanta's hit music station (male voice)... Q100 (female voice)".
I know I'm getting picky here, but I'm not crazy about the male voice over they use for the Q100 brand... think they should find someone who sounds a bit younger (similar to the Z100 NY male voice over) but the female voice is spot on.
I'd like to hear more songs like "Mr. Saxobeat" on Q100, but the playlist is pretty good for the most part... I just wish they would stop playing Vertical Horizon, Stereo MC's, etc during the day... sounds weird/messes up the flow of the station.
I know I'm getting picky here, but I'm not crazy about the male voice over they use for the Q100 brand... think they should find someone who sounds a bit younger (similar to the Z100 NY male voice over) but the female voice is spot on.
I'd like to hear more songs like "Mr. Saxobeat" on Q100, but the playlist is pretty good for the most part... I just wish they would stop playing Vertical Horizon, Stereo MC's, etc during the day... sounds weird/messes up the flow of the station.
RadioDoogie said:
I've been monitoring Q almost as much as V103 recently, and this is precisely what I was thinking. Q100 has been pretty much straight up on point with the Top 40 chart as of these past few weeks.
However, I see quite a bit of hip hop that is beginning to chart on various charts with some of them potentially crossing over into the top 20 of the top 40 charts that I doubt Q will touch. J. Cole and Jay-Z ft. Kanye West are two of them. I'm not sure about the Drake song... "Without you", of course, is played a lot because it's at the top of the charts. I believe "You make me feel" is played more often, though. The new Nickelback, Gavin DeGraw, and The Script songs I enjoy. Unfortunately, it seems Q isn't too interested in the new Nickelback and Rihanna ft Coldplay songs, but I remember physically hearing and seeing them play both of those at least once.
I notice their recurrents lean pop/rock and pop/r&b, and the same way many chr's play a bunch of mainstream hip hop and urban pop hit recurrents, Q100 plays a lot of pop/rock or even alternative leaning hits recurrents.
I doubt that they will fully add "Saxobeat" since that song is now falling in top 40 charts. The one evening they played it a few nights ago might be the last. Not sure what's Happening with Selena Gomez in Atl, but I did see WiLD finally added it. "5 0 Clock In The Morning" has been in rotation for a while now on Q, V, Hot, and WiLD.
I think with WiLD in the picture and V103 now mixing up that electro-pop and electro-hip hop with some house occasionally, Q100, WiLD, and V make the entire situation sound awesome as a whole. You get a lot more on just 3 signals alone than you'd get in LA or many areas of the west coast on 4, 5, or 6 signals. The hugest weakness (as of right now) however is WiLD's weak signal since it sort of cancels out the fact that WiLD is contributing A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT musically for Atlanta Chr, unlike what The Beat did (the demise of WBTS was probably a blessing in disguise to the Atl. Chr world). I'd say each station has its place with their unique sound and choice of early adds. Of course, V doesn't play "Without You" or "Sexy & I know it" or the Calvin Harris, Black Eyed Peas, Foster The People, Discofries..etc. type hits & remixes outside of their mix shows, but at least they do play on V103 now.
Atlanta is great right now (with exception to the latin pop or latin rhythm formats). I've actually been JEALOUS with the 3 1/2 pop stations where I live all sounding somewhat identical. Atl has variety, and just needs WiLD on a better signal.
Been listening for over 30 minutes. The sweepers seem to be new, but I haven't heard even one jingle. There was even a produced legal ID/sweep starter where the TOH jingle normally ran, which makes me wonder if they pulled jingles altogether... I certainly hope not. Although Q's package was six years old (started running concurrently with the "bigger, more powerful, clearer signal" upgrade), the cuts still sounded good.
TheMusicMan said:
Anybody know which package it is? Another one from ReelWorld or did they go in a different direction?
electroboy73 said:
These songs were DOA.
atlmike said:
Is it still Cumulus' stock CHR voice guy? If it is, then yes -- he's not very good. That guy pours on the "cool radio voice" way too much -- a huge pet peeve of mine in 2011 radio. Just sound like yourself, people. Enunciate, yes, but talk normally.
KDM 7000 said:
I guess I was wrong. Maybe Hot 107.9 does not play "5 0'clock".
...And while my correction still has me a little off topic here, I might as well present this:
http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=201775.0
TheMusicMan said:
I thought the same but then I heard the old jingles last night mixed in with the new sweepers... the jingles were always good I thought. Sweepers are better than before but I still can't stand the male announcers voice! It's way too cheesy/harsh sounding. The only one I don't really like is: (male voice) "Q... ONE... HUN... DRED" ... I was like, is that really the best they can do over there??
I really like it when they tie in the upcoming song with the sweeper (which Q100 never does), but I guess I can't expect too much "creativity" out of Cumulus. I know I sound nit picky, but I think good sweepers/jingles are just as important as the playlist and the DJ personalities. Was hoping when they finally re-did them they would nail it... Are they better than before? Yes, but they definitely still need some work...
It is the same announcer that is on A&E. I've also heard him on Flinn's Q107.5 in Memphis as well. As to the Top 40 chart...I've noticed that over the last few years, the chart itself has almost totally drifted away from any rap, hip-hop, or R&B crossovers. This is perfect for the Q100/Cumulus' branding and would in fact put them back in a good position to call themselves "All the Hits" yet again. About ten years ago, almost half of the chart had these crossovers. Even twenty years ago the chart had more crossovers than today. This created the Hot AC format in the late 80s where many CHR stations went after refusing to play these crossover hits. About ten years ago, it seems that many CHR stations that were having an identity crisis did the opposite with their CHR stations and instead of going Hot AC they went Rhythmic instead.
KDM 7000 said:
Actually yes, they do play it on Hot 107.9 as I said the first time.
By the way, I say I like a few songs and the Atlanta radio improvements, but enough with my sugarcoating. Honestly, I still believe Q100 could do much better by making very subtle changes. Right now, they are right on the borderline of being a "basic chr", or in other words, a chr that sounds like they are only sounding as good and creative as they HAVE to in order to successfully get by. They aren't exactly "fresh, live and exciting". But then again, maybe this is what they must do to attract the specific type of demographics they are after. They sound ok, but automatically sound very good now in comparison to most of Atlanta's 2 decade chr history. I'm not complaining or saying nothing they do would ever be good enough. I'm simply saying improvements can be made, the same way B98.5 improved despite a bunch of people here basically saying "it could never be done".
One GREAT improvement Q100 could make, without even touching the music or adding weekday dj's, is doing whatever's necessary to "put more energy into" the on-air hosts. That alone would make the big difference. I haven't heard the new jingles that are being spoken of here, so I cannot comment on that.
Actually, there are other people on this board who can be descriptive and paint a picture with words much better than I can with less wording. They'd probably be better at writing a romance novel than I would. Anyway, let me quote them and use their wording to give you a more accurate description of what many of us would love to see Q100 become as a station (just take their quoted words and apply it to Q100 on my behalf):
taylorengineer said:
taylorengineer said:
KDM 7000 said:
I think it stays pretty close to the Top 20 of the CHR chart - but it literally doesn't take a chance on anything - never mind rhythmic stuff, Q100 still hasn't added Lady Antebellum or Andy Grammer, and it barely touched the new Nickelback song
I just feel like Scott Lindy is much more willing to go out on a limb and break new music than Jan Jeffries is
atlantaboy said:
That's pretty much what I meant by sticking to the top 40 chart. I remember hearing that no station actually does a full top 40 chart playlist and that just sticking with a majority or some of the basic hardest hitting top 40 songs is considered "sticking with the top 40".
They do seem to "pick and choose" once outside the top 20.
As far as the Scott Lindy thing, that's PRECISELY what I was wondering once I heard the news about him taking over for Jan Jeffries. Does he have the freedom and right to tweak anything based on what he thinks may work better for whatever reasons? And what would happen if he does tweak things around and ends up causing unwanted results to the station from a business point of view? Is he at the same level as Jan Jeffries? Or can Jan Jeffries be upset and affected over anything Scott Lindy does?
Can Scott Lindy bring any differences to the table for his cluster, or is the Jan / Scott relationship similar to the Fidel Castro replacement scenario, where the man who replaced / filled in for Fidel was only chosen with the trust that he'd operate and hold things PRECISELY as they were under the former original leader?
By the way, I should clarify that I was only using the Fidel Castro comparison in my question to clarify the example of what I was trying to ask. NO disrespect, condescending, or biased opinion intended here.
KDM 7000 said:
Whoa - Scott Lindy is going to Cumulus?
LOL. No. He must have gotten Scott Lindy confused with Mike McVay. Lindy and Jeffries have absolutely nothing to do with one another.
whitfm said:
Well, I for one predict that "5 O'Clock" will be huge! Only time will tell, I guess.
RadioDoogie said:
Yep, his name is Jeff Berlin. He also does Kiss 95.1 in Charlotte. His voice is OK, I'm just not crazy about his sound for Q100.
Really wish they would add Chris Brown/Pitbull - International Love and Taio Cruz - Hangover... Chris Brown - Yeah 3x, Pitbull - Give Me Everything, Dev - In The Dark, etc are all similar and frequently rotated, so not sure why they are avoiding them? At least they added Lady Gaga - Marry The Night, FloRida - Good Feeling and LMFAO - Sexy And I Know It, I'll give them that... but I'm just generally confused by their decision making process when introducing new music.
KDM 7000 said:
Didn't think Cumulus CHR's would be playing that song. Reason being because of the how long it took them to start playing Superbass.
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