Phoenix Arbitron Radio Ratings: May 2012

[michael hagerty]

Re: Phoenix Arbitron Radio Ratings: May 2012a[quote="Rudy, post: 111029, member:

Any Genre qualifies as an oldie as long as it charted well on the Mainstream charts. Devil went down to Georgia, Moondance, Green Onions, The In Crowd, and even Stayin Alive. All fall outside the Rock/Pop world, but charted with Top 40 Music = Oldie.

Disagree. Otherwise you'd also have lots of Country crossovers which were popular on T-40 radio in the late 50's and early 60's as Oldies and clearly they don't belong to that genre.

Green Onions and The In Crowd were both jazz crossovers but because they were played a lot on T-40 I would agree they belong. Stayin' Alive was a Disco crossover and its popularity on radio followed the movie soundtrack. Not really a dance song but definitely a Pop song so I agree there too. I don't remember Moondance.

The only disagreement I have on that is "Stayin' Alive". It was added out of the box at Top 40 stations and went to the top so fast, I don't think you could really call it a crossover in the strictest sense. There were a lot of disco records that started in the clubs and built momentum leading to Top 40 airplay. Those would be crossovers, and they're generally not heard often today as "oldies".

 

[DJ_Perry]

Re: Phoenix Arbitron Radio Ratings: May 2012a[quote="Rudy, post: 111029, member:

Well plenty of Disco songs charted well on Top 40 regardless of how they started out. If you can find any song on a Billboard Top 10 CD up until 1985, its an oldie in my book.

 

[landtuna]

Re: Phoenix Arbitron Radio Ratings: May 2012a[quote="Rudy, post: 111029, member:

Well plenty of Disco songs charted well on Top 40 regardless of how they started out. If you can find any song on a Billboard Top 10 CD up until 1985, its an oldie in my book.

With the possible exceptions of grunge and the more recent rap/hip-hop I cannot recall any genre of pop music generating more dislike and verbal objection than Disco. While it was wildly popular in clubs it had a very mixed reception on radio, especially in non-urban markets. It seems at one point that at least one station in every market was hosting some sort of an "I hate Disco" event.

 

[DJ_Perry]

I'm aware of the Disco bashing. But it wouldn't still get played today if there wasn't still support and research to back it up. Its not like KOOL is playing flop records....their choices charted and test well. And as expected, so does KOOL....can you really dispute that?

 

[landtuna]

I'm aware of the Disco bashing. But it wouldn't still get played today if there wasn't still support and research to back it up. Its not like KOOL is playing flop records....their choices charted and test well. And as expected, so does KOOL....can you really dispute that?

I have no inside information on just how KOOL chooses their playlist. All I can say is that KOOL for many, many years (since the late 70's when I moved to Phoenix from Tucson) was my favorite radio station of all time. Then they started bouncing their jocks. Then they dropped what already was the very occasional 50's hits. More recently the 60's virtually disappeared. Then came Disco. Now they are moving the needle into the 80's. I don't like their playlist any longer so I have moved on.

If I want to listen to radio in the car it is easy to record a couple hours of KODS off the 'Net and play it back on my flash drive. Or just fire up the flash player and listen to my personal library. I would prefer the KOOL of old.....but it's gone and apparently not coming back. And neither am I.

 

[Saladressing]

There will come a time when Lady Gaga will no longer be played on "Oldies" stations. And onward we go...

 

[radionut1]

Who is the no. 1 station overall in Phoenix?

 

[davideduardo]

Who is the no. 1 station overall in Phoenix?

Number 1 in what?

For the "Ego Wall" 6+ numbers, follow the ratings link to the main site of Radio Info and there are the latest overall numbers with cume and share for subscribing stations.