Real Urban Radio & Real Top 40 Radio

[J. Rob]

I'm just looking for feedback

Real Urban Radio: A hip-hop leaning Mainstream Urban.

WARNING: All of the songs are uncensored

www.live365.com/stations/jrob1125

Real Top 40 Radio: A true Top 40 station.....plays not only every song in the Mainstream Top 40, but also every song in the Billboard Top 40, regardless of the genre.

Yes, that means you could hear a Blake Shelton song sandwiched between a Lil Wayne song and a Lady Gaga song.

www.live365.com/stations/realtop40


- J. Rob

 

[Wwzapper]

I've listened to five songs now, at the top 40 station... no jingles?

Besides that: I have to say the sound is a little bit on the flat side. And relatively harsch songs are suffering from the so called 'loudness war'. But I know many people like that kind of sound, so maybe, it's your own choice.

 

[Jay Peninger]

I have to say from the perspective of somebody who has been in terrestrial radio for 15 years that recently there has been more than a few stations try your "Real Top 40" format in the past couple years and most have fallen flat on their faces...

Lets be honest Country folks don't like Hip Hop, and Hip Hop folks don't like Pop music and Pop music folks don't care for Country... It comes down to alienating your listeners every 3rd or 4th song and their attention spans grow mighty short when they were bopping to some JayZ and then Toby Keith starts hoot'n and hollering

I wish you luck, but gaining listeners is tough enough to the average Internet station to risk alienating them once you got them there...

 

[Wwzapper]

And you don't have to go very far to alienate listeners with playing various genres; At Only 00s, I've tried both the pop/rock site (Coldplay, Snow Patrol, etc.) and both the danceable/urban/poppy side (from Neptunes stuff, Christina Aguilera to Cascada) at one station, without real extremes like country. Just general mainstream hits from the 00s.

But that seemed already too much for my listeners.

(I only play the danceable/urban/poppy side now.)

 

[Jay Peninger]

And you don't have to go very far to alienate listeners with playing various genres; At Only 00s, I've tried both the pop/rock site (Coldplay, Snow Patrol, etc.) and both the danceable/urban/poppy side (from Neptunes stuff, Christina Aguilera to Cascada) at one station, without real extremes like country. Just general mainstream hits from the 00s.

But that seemed already too much for my listeners.

(I only play the danceable/urban/poppy side now.)

In a medium where the average loyal listener only spend 15 - 20 minutes at the most listening to what you have to offer why risk sending them away quicker than that because they hear a tune outside their comfort zone... If you tune in to hear Rock you don't want to hear Hip Hop or Country plain and simple....

 

[J. Rob]

Thanks for the feedback guys.....


I've always considered the risk of alienating listeners by playing Country songs, hard Hip-Hop songs and slow R&B songs. Lately, those songs haven't been cracking the Top 40 enough to become a major concern, and when they do I try to keep them at least 10 songs apart. Even though my goal is to play all of the Top 40 hits, I still want the station to have a CHR sound. So when songs like Jason Aldean's "Dirt Road Anthem" or Lil Wayne's "6 Foot 7 Foot" fall out of the Top 40, I keep them out of rotation for good. My recurrents are strictly Mainstream CHR.