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Perceptions: Classic Dance/ Dance oldies

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With a few new dance formatted stations this year, it got me revisiting a topic I thought of sometime ago—stations that air/stream a classic dance or dance 'oldies' format. I'm aware of a few European stations (online and over-the-air) that air such like a 90s eurodance, Y2K dance-type format or strictly a eurodance station. Coming off the top of my head, the closest format description would be something like rhythmic AC, but some of the songs I'm thinking of (pure dance songs) wouldn't necessarily fit that either. With the dance music format already niche enough as it is, do you believe a classic dance oldies formatted station would work here? Perhaps a better question is what would you consider as 'classic dance' or 'dance oldies'? Please bear in mind, I'm not referring to a dance song from 6 months ago as classic as some people's personal definition might be, but I'm speaking of songs/music from the past 20 to 30 years (i.e. say 90s eurodance and much of the 2000s decade as the center of the period in question). Twenty-teens dance music (2010s) might still be considered 'too new' still for this classification, imo.
Also, thinking similar yet dissimilarly about it is that I hardly ever hear any eurodance songs that were played (the few there were in the states) in the classic hits (formerly oldies-50 to 70s formatted stations, now 80s-early 00s). The classic hits station closest to me has only sparingly played late 80s/early90s dance hits (i.e. technotronic, bizarre inc., Black Box, etc.), but I have not heard Amber, Gina G, Eiffel 69, La Bouche, Le Click, not to mention Lasgo, Ian Van Dahl and the like at all on it.
 
Good question. It seems like a lot of dance stations play a good deal of "oldies" from about 1990 onward.

As for over the air stations....93.5 Revolution Radio Miami has an oldies show at lunchtime called "Dance Anthems". KGAY Palm Springs has oldies shows as well. Streaming there is Pride Radio flashbacks on IHeart Radio is dance oldies. Also IHeart Freestyle.

Other than streaming like Pride Radio Flashbacks and IHeart Freestyle. I think it is too niche for an over the air station.
 
For online or streaming, best bet for this would probably be something like Utopia on SiriusXM or the online stations that do this. One that I am aware of off the top of my head is called Prysm Dance Revival.

But yeah it's an interesting concept whether an uptempo FM station (sort of what KTU was doing with its mid-90s relaunch) that focused on retro dancey stuff could be successful. Hopefully someone makes a go of it at some point.
 
USA Dance Mix plays the past 40 years every day, so we cover it all (Dance, House, Disco) from 1983 to 2023 (minus EDM). Although we do play oldies, we are more likely to play new artists who sample classic Disco and Dance tracks. 80's, 90's, 00's, 10's, 20's are all covered.
 
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