Remember back when CHRs were not 75% rap? It was only 5 years ago!

[jlehmann]

Here's an aircheck of Kiss 108 Boston from February 2000. There is absolutely NO rap in this scoped aircheck of an hour and a half of Kiss 108. The DJs are Dale Dorman and Artie the One Man Party.

http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=11EO472C3CM561E798WBDA6U0Q

Enjoy!

 

[JeremyAndrews]

> Here's an aircheck of Kiss 108 Boston from February 2000.
> There is absolutely NO rap in this scoped aircheck of an
> hour and a half of Kiss 108. The DJs are Dale Dorman and
> Artie the One Man Party.
>
h> ttp://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=11EO472C3CM561E798WBDA6U0Q
>
>
> Enjoy!
>


OOOOOOOOOH I remember. The constant rap thing started after 9-11 and got to where it is now in late 2002. For Milwaukee's CHR, it started the first Monday in February 2003. They used to keep it pretty balenced but that ended. Thanks for the aircheck. Its great to hear 1999-2000 again.
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[RMarino]

There's an interesting feature on Billboard.com where you can see a number of charts from 5, 10, and 15 years ago. I agree that you can definately tell the difference between now and just 5 years ago.

On the average, I'm noticing that 5 years ago, I recognized 9 out of the top 10 songs, but on the current chart, I'm lucky if I know 2 of them! And those are usually the Hot AC crossovers.

But then again maybe I'm just gettin' old!

 

[agreenbe]

i saw the billboard charts from 15 years ago and there was a mix of rock, rap, pop, metal as what was defined as top 40.

i have checked out the year end charts and it is the same thing 15-20 years ago

> There's an interesting feature on Billboard.com where you
> can see a number of charts from 5, 10, and 15 years ago. I
> agree that you can definately tell the difference between
> now and just 5 years ago.
>
> On the average, I'm noticing that 5 years ago, I recognized
> 9 out of the top 10 songs, but on the current chart, I'm
> lucky if I know 2 of them! And those are usually the Hot AC
> crossovers.
>
> But then again maybe I'm just gettin' old!
>

 

[johnny]

> On the average, I'm noticing that 5 years ago, I recognized
> 9 out of the top 10 songs, but on the current chart, I'm
> lucky if I know 2 of them! And those are usually the Hot AC
> crossovers.
>
> But then again maybe I'm just gettin' old!

LOL Rich. Yeah, that's what it is. Same thing happened to me around 1992. I can sing the words to just about any CHR song before then. After then? Was there anything after then?

Welcome to the old crowd.

 

[jlehmann]

Something else that I just thought of about that aircheck is that I don't think any of the songs in that aircheck are being played on there anymore as golds. One that might be is Goo Goo Dolls - Iris, but I'm not sure. They've got a couple of pop/rock golds that they play over and over again, and it seems like they never change those songs that are played.

 

[RMarino]

> Welcome to the old crowd.

Heheh! What makes it funny though is that I haven't been a regular CHR listener since 1989. Yet looking at the charts from 15, 10 and 5 years ago, there were always hits that broke though and became mass-appeal. There's nothing like that on the current chart at all.

 

[JH_Radio]

This seems to depend on which market you are in.
For example, Z100 amd WPST are more mainstream. A station that plays even less rap then those two is WAYV.
WIOQ and WIHT play more rap though.
Personally, I think that stations like WHIT, and WIOQ are more Ryhtmic/CHR. The othere stations I have mentioned seem to be more Mainstream CHR.
Anyone agree?
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